Search results for: “flesk”
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Franklin Booth (update)
Franklin Booth was a great American Illustrator and one of art history’s masters of the medium of pen and ink. Booth grew up on a farm in Indiana in the late 1800’s. Innocently misunderstanding the printing technology of the time, he developed his style by copying what he thought were pen and ink illustrations in…
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Virgil Finlay (update)
A recent comment from a reader on a post I did back in 2006 reminded me that I haven’t written for some time about the great science fiction, fantasy and horror illustrator Virgil Finlay. Though he worked in a variety of media, both in color and in black and white, Finlay is noted primarily for…
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Mark Schultz: Various Drawings Volume 5
It’s customary for many comic book artists and illustrators to publish “sketchbooks”, collections of sketches and drawings of varying degrees of finish, which are frequently more of interest to their dedicated “must have anything” fans than to the more general readership. And then there’s Mark Schultz. Flesk Publications, a small artbook publisher who has a…
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Al Williamson Archives: Volume 2
As I mentioned in my previous posts on him, I consider Al Williamson one of the greats of 20th Century comics art, and an important bridge between the traditions of the newspaper adventure strips of the first half of the century and the “Silver Age” comic books of the second. Williamson carried forward the excellence…
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Harvey Dunn
The great American illustrator Howard Pyle was influential both in his own work and as a teacher whose ranks of students contained a generation of America’s finest illustrators. Artists like N.C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, William James Aylward, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Violet Oakley, Maxfield Parrish, Ellen Thompson Pyle, Olive Rush, Phillip Goodwin, Stanley…
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Xenozoic
Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know of my fascination with dinosaurs and paleo art, my fondness for science fiction and adventure stories and their accompanying illustrations, my admiration for the beautiful ink drawings of classic illustrators, the inspired adventure comic strips from the 1930’s and 1940’s that carried their traditions forward, and…