Beware the Bibliophilia

All good things must come to an end, or sometimes a hiatus. Please stay and take a spin through past posts (ARCHIVE ). You’ll find something great, I promise.  The doodle is by the legendary...

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Mission District sidewalk drawn by @paulmadonna from his book Everything Is Its Own Reward. What/whom does this make you think of?

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Vintage French matchboxes, ca. 1940s? (For more beautiful tiny package designs like these, SEE ALSO )

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Leonora Carrington, Tiburón, ca. 1942, a stunner that needs to be seen up close to be really seen. A lot’s going on with this passenger fish, including an execution chamber in its basement. Th...

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Original and later versions of a panel from Tintin in America, the black-and-white from Le Petit Vingtième (March 10, 1932) and the color from the 1945 version

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Suihō Tagawa, Norakuro comics, ca. 1930s.

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Detail of the beautiful silver foil-stamped front cover of The Kat Who Walked in Beauty: The Panoramic Dailies of 1920, George Herriman

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Hergé, advertising project for Victoria, 1933, reprinted in Tintin: The Art of Herge 

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Hergé (obviously), panel from a color proof of The Red Sea Sharks, Tintin magazine, August 14, 1957

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Julius Klinger, Ferrowatt light bulb advertisement, 1930

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Dutch package design advertisemnt, 1934, reproduced in Steven Heller’s book Dutch Moderne

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Genius at work  (vintage miniature crayon box made in Japan)

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20 Ans magazine, Paris, 1974

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Gary Panter, exterior set design for Pee Wee’s Playhouse, 1986. Several room-sized models of the playhouse exterior were made based on this sketch.

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HARPY: 1. Gr. and Lat. Myth. A fabulous monster, rapacious and filthy, having a woman’s face and body and a bird’s wings and claws, and supposed to act as a minister of divine vengeance. 2. A...

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Voodoo #7, 1953, art: Iger Shop, reprinted in Haunted Horror: Comics Your Mother Warned You About!

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Woman’s fire dance mask, 6 feet 8 inches high, Baining people, Papua New Guinea, from Elemental Art of the Indonesian Archipelago

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Bizarre and very troubling vintage men’s magazine covers from Gary Panter’s reference art collection. “Mating Raid of the RED APE” “True Report: Stone Age Savages Kill Scientists”

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Rage for Men June 1957, artist uncredited. Actual men’s magazine cover, NOT A PARODY

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Anonymous, Last Supper (La Última Cena), polychrome clay, Ocumicho, Michoacán Collection, Centro Cultural Tijuana

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