Recent Posts Tagged With 'magazines'

• Electronic Games Mag: December 1982

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 13:25 in magazines, 1980's, christmas

  To start off December, how's about a magazine from my childhood: Electronic Games, 1982. Yes, this is the actual magazine—I've kept it ever since. Awww, yeah. I was a gamer, circa 1982. Nothing but Atari, Activision, Colecovision, Intellivision, co...

• This Week Vacation Guide 1949

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 10:56 in illustration, magazines, covers, 1940's

  This Week Magazine: Vacation Guide, 1949. No mention of illustrator. Lowell Hess, perhaps?This is a wonderful cover to a rather dull magazine. It's one of those informational publications, with no ads, a few photos, but mostly information like travel...

• Step-by-step: King of Putdowns

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 14:43 in Color, illustration, magazines, step-by-step

  Hi guys. Thought I'd enlighten your day by sharing with you a sort of step-by-step process of how I created the illustration I did for Guide Magazine, The King of Putdowns (see previous post). Since I didn't take screengrabs while I was working, I ca...

• King of Putdowns

  Posted on Monday September 28th, 2009 at 02:22 in Color, illustration, magazines

  Recent illustration I did for an upcoming issue of Guide Magazine. That boy at the top of the playhouse likes to put his classmates down with snarky remarks and insults. It prompts the girl to pick up a pine cone and toss it at him.I'm very proud of ...

• Better Homes & Garden Sept. 1958

  Posted on Sunday November 30th, 2008 at 18:29 in illustration, magazines, vintage, 1950's, jan balet

  Oh man, what a scrumptious cover. And I don't usually use such descriptive words when describing a magazine cover. Vintage modern mid-century architecture goodness, care of the incomparable Jan Balet (here and here). Architecture, characters, color,...

• Happy Thanksgiving & a Mystery Solved

  Posted on Thursday November 27th, 2008 at 13:22 in illustration, magazines, vintage, thanksgiving, 1960's, lorraine fox

  I've been waiting to put this one up for an entire year. I found it among my vintage magazine collection right after Thanksgiving last year and was kicking myself for not finding it in time. But that's okay. The reasoning? The illustrator is listed a...

• Coronet December 1957

  Posted on Tuesday December 18th, 2007 at 03:19 in magazines, vintage, 1950's

  Welcome to Christmas 1957, Coronet Magazine-style. Coronet was a smaller in scale magazine, roughly half the size of your typical magazine found in newstands. The paper from this particular issue is brittle, giving the magazine a pulp-like feel. Very...

• My Mom's 16 Magazine Collection

  Posted on Wednesday October 24th, 2007 at 02:59 in magazines, teenager, vintage, beatles, 1960's, mama

  My Mom was a big fan of The Beatles, right at the height of their popularity, from 1964 to 1966. (Remember, she wrote this previously.) She had a big collection of teeny-bop magazines that featured all the big hot movie, tv and music hearthrobs at th...