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December 19, 2011
Heaven

December 12, 2011
Resembling Human Beings

December 04, 2011
Lynd Ward Whale

October 25, 2011
Seymour Chwast
Beautiful cover art by Seymour Chwast for The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need... don't know the year of publication.
October 24, 2011
Snorkel (that's one way of putting it)

October 23, 2011
Electre

October 22, 2011
Space Station

October 14, 2011
Havank

October 05, 2011
Lord Baltimore Cake Mix

August 25, 2011
Electric Gargle

August 24, 2011
Modern Masks

August 20, 2011
General Dynamics

August 13, 2011
More Fish, Yeah

August 07, 2011
Hitchcock Hairdo

August 04, 2011
Acromegaly

August 01, 2011
Cartoon Crybabies #8

July 26, 2011
Grumpy Bear

July 22, 2011
Chooing Material

June 26, 2011
Dormant Roots

June 16, 2011
Swell Whale

June 02, 2011
Craft of Basketry

May 25, 2011
Andre Durenceau
Several lovely illustrations by Andre Durenceau from Roy Chapman Andrews' Nature's Ways, 1951. A few of these appear to be by other artists (I can't make out all the signatures) but only Durenceau is credited in the book. The printing is unfortunately poor, either out-of register or muddy somehow, but these still look pretty fantastic, with startling and not-entirely naturalistic color choices, as well as unusual compositions.
 Yeah, this is obviously a photo, perhaps taken in a museum rather than in the wild, but I can't resist an ape.
May 20, 2011
Electricity & Chalk

May 17, 2011
Ctenophores

May 16, 2011
Crucifiction Science

May 14, 2011
Of Course

May 13, 2011
Back Scratcher

May 09, 2011
Angry Notes

April 24, 2011
Work-Flow Chart

April 14, 2011
Leafy

April 11, 2011
Hold Perfectly Still

April 10, 2011
Architectural Significance

April 05, 2011
America Without Paper

April 02, 2011
Bullwinkle Watch

April 01, 2011
Alive & Well

March 31, 2011
Creepy

March 29, 2011
Half-Time Show

March 28, 2011
Another Nervous System

March 27, 2011
Acid Dropping Bottle

March 26, 2011
34B

March 25, 2011
Large Screw

March 24, 2011
Magic Lanterns

March 22, 2011
Dental Work

March 20, 2011
Fetish Socks

March 18, 2011
Deeper Dimensions

March 17, 2011
Gestalts

March 11, 2011
Wha -- ?!

March 07, 2011
Fireworks List

February 22, 2011
Against the Pests

February 21, 2011
Buried Alive

February 16, 2011
Airship Sheds & Airspace

February 08, 2011
Weird, Man

February 06, 2011
Big Ants

January 28, 2011
Arches & Asses

January 19, 2011
Le Magnetophone

Asimov's Robots

January 17, 2011
Adult Video Games

January 13, 2011
Rigilian Orbits

January 12, 2011
Allegedly Drunk

January 01, 2011
Air is Thin Up Here

December 23, 2010
Tracks

December 19, 2010
Adjectives

December 12, 2010
53 American Slices

December 09, 2010
Christmas Crystal

December 05, 2010
No Idea

December 02, 2010
Best Weapon

December 01, 2010
Missing Link

November 29, 2010
Melon Balls

November 28, 2010
Fucking Penguins

November 22, 2010
Fake Splash

November 16, 2010
Enlarged Bacteria

November 14, 2010
Chalk Rabbit

November 11, 2010
Boots

November 09, 2010
Aye-Aye

November 04, 2010
Menu Darling

November 03, 2010
World's Largest Prop

November 01, 2010
Charles Joslin - Childcraft

October 31, 2010
Komputers

October 28, 2010
Modernistic

October 25, 2010
Needle Master

October 22, 2010
Amber Crystal

October 21, 2010
Facts From Figures

October 20, 2010
George Suyeoka - Childcraft

October 15, 2010
Foolproof Gravy

October 13, 2010
Flesh Like Vinyl

October 12, 2010
Beaver

October 07, 2010
Frosty Light

October 06, 2010
Get in Line

Astoria

October 04, 2010
Boris Artzybasheff - Childcraft

October 01, 2010
September 29, 2010
Beyond Tomorrow
Art by the following:
 Clyde Provonsha
 Jim Padgett
 Jim Padgett
 Jim Padgett
 Robert Ayres
 Lester Quade
 Jim Padgett
 Robert Ayres
 Clyde Provonsha
September 28, 2010
Plumes

September 27, 2010
What Girls Want to Know About Boys

September 25, 2010
Hans Jurgen Press - "The Adventures of the Black Hand Gang"
Some interesting pages of art from a children's book called The Adventures of the Black Hand Gang, written and drawn by Hans Jurgen Press. At first glance I thought it merely a picture book, but quickly realized the illustrations more often than not took the form of comic book pages, which piqued my interest. Additionally, the pages weren't simply illustrating the text, but were meant to be studied by the reader for clues (from wikipedia: "Press was one of the inventors of the Wimmelbild, a genre of illustration deliberately overcrowded with detail, to pleasure children on their search for a certain item.") And the panels of each page aren't always a straighforward sequence of events, but instead a more complex variety of schematics, POVs, close-ups, etc. which I imagine would be of great fascination for a curious child or semi-literate adult such as myself.
Anyway, it's a beautifully cartooned book, and a thick one - tempted to call it a graphic novel? - about 100 pages, every other one being a full page of art. This American edition is from 1977, while the author's copyright says 1965.
September 24, 2010
Clown Lamp

September 22, 2010
OG

September 19, 2010
Waiting on God

September 16, 2010
Dayglo

September 13, 2010
More Whitney Darrow
And more here.
September 10, 2010
FUNKPANZER

September 09, 2010
This Book Talks

September 07, 2010
Buzzy Bait

September 04, 2010
People Pillows

September 03, 2010
Learn All These Skills

September 02, 2010
"His Divine Grace"
I have no idea what this hogwash is supposed to mean, but these are some truly stunning, stunningly bizarre paintings. No idea who the artist is, unfortunately.
August 31, 2010
Unknown Artist - Childcraft

August 25, 2010
Beelzebub's Grocery List

August 24, 2010
James Agee - Three Fragments
Three extraordinary fragments from The Collected Short Prose by James Agee.
I am an Angel

August 23, 2010
One Block to Disneyland

August 21, 2010
Hey God!

August 17, 2010
Warning Sign

August 11, 2010
War Effort, Hurrah!

August 10, 2010
Rotifer Group

August 08, 2010
My New Living Room

August 04, 2010
Seafood Mousse

August 03, 2010
Human Skin

August 02, 2010
Rapture

August 01, 2010
EEEEEEEK

July 31, 2010
Bloody Castle
The Tingler, directed by William Castle, 1959
16 Colors

July 29, 2010
Velvet Mite

July 28, 2010
Essentials of Drafting
Drafting manual, unknown date.
July 27, 2010
Who's Your Tailor, Baby?

July 25, 2010
Jesus Generation!

July 21, 2010
Franklin McMahon
Franklin McMahon drawings from a Childcraft encyclopedia.
July 20, 2010
Ken Riley
A couple nice drawings by Ken Riley from an old Readers Digest Condensed Book. More here.
July 19, 2010
Reach for Power

July 18, 2010
Candy Cigarettes

July 17, 2010
Laces & Stitches

July 13, 2010
DP

July 12, 2010
Factory Model

July 11, 2010
Butter Sunrise

July 09, 2010
The Future In Color
Not certain who created these images, but I'm positive I've seen that signature before... anyone?
July 08, 2010
Color Crystal

July 07, 2010
Computer Somethings
Some interesting drawings and pics from a book about computers (or possibly a chapter about the subject from a children's encyclopedia?) -- probably 40 years ago.
July 05, 2010
Jack Davis Misc.
Various Jack Davis illustrations. This first one was the cover to Sidetracked Home Executives, written by Pam Young and Peggy Jones, 1981.
 The remainder of these are from a couple golf magazines of the mid-1970s. Cartoonists and golf: an eternal WTF for me. I mean, I like miniature golf, Putt-Putt or whatever, but geez.
July 03, 2010
July 02, 2010
Bubblegum Pop

June 29, 2010
Zee TP

June 28, 2010
Cubix Cozy

June 25, 2010
All About Using Chain Saws

June 23, 2010
Hunger On / Hunger Off

June 22, 2010
Better Rayon

June 21, 2010
John Wayne - Shootist, Smoothest

June 20, 2010
George Price - "Let's Go for Broke"
1962 illustrations by the great George Price (more here) for Mary Lasswell's Let's Go for Broke. The smaller spots seem to merely be isolated and slightly altered bits of the larger cover piece.
June 19, 2010
The Force

June 18, 2010
Excellent Traction

June 17, 2010
Subconscious Mi... Eh, What?

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