Illustration magazine (published in USA)

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number thirty six
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 80 pages
Size: 8" x 11" (203mm x 279mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Features in this issue include two major articles on The Many Worlds of John Berkey and Rose O'Neill.

Published quarterly and printed in full colour, each issue features the highest quality printing, photography and colour reproductions of original art available anywhere. For those with an interest in popular culture, commercial art and design, publishing history, comic books, paperbacks, pulp magazines, or collecting original art.


Price: £20.00 ($32.00) (€24,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number thirty five
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 96 pages
Size: 8" x 11" (203mm x 279mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: In this issue: The art of Joseph Szokoli, best known for his spicy pulp magazine covers. Also, the macabre art of Harry Clarke. The final feature is a profile of illustration historian Walt Reed, proprietor of The Illustration House Gallery.

For those with an interest in popular culture, commercial art and design, publishing history, comic books, paperbacks, pulp magazines, or collecting original art.


Price: £20.00 ($32.00) (€24,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number thirty four
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 80 pages
Size: 8" x 11" (203mm x 279mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: Already sold out from the publisher, this new edition of Illustration features an in-depth look at Tom Lovell, a master of dynamic pulp art possibly best known for his Western themes. In the 1940s Lovell concentrated on magazine illustration employing a much more detailed and romantic style that is a pleasure to look at.

The second feature is a piece on the Sicilian-American Nino Carbé who created wonderful illustrations for a 1932 edition of Frankenstein and later created many vivid illustrations for children's books. There is also a fond remembrance of the work of the recently departed Jeffrey Catherine Jones.

The issue is rounded out with reviews of some particularly impressive recent art books, modesty forbids etc.

Published quarterly and printed in full colour, each issue features the highest quality printing, photography and colour reproductions of original art available anywhere. For those with an interest in popular culture, commercial art and design, publishing history, comic books, paperbacks, pulp magazines, or collecting original art.


Price: £20.00 ($32.00) (€24,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number thirty three
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 96 pages
Size: 8" x 11" (203mm x 279mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: Features The Art of Jack Gaughan, The Art of Charles Copeland, The Art of Edward Shenton, The Horrors of War Gum Cards plus book reviews, events and exhibitions.

Illustration continues to lead the field and is a must read for collectors and historians as well as fans of the classic era of popular illustration.


Price: £20.00 ($32.00) (€24,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number thirty two
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 96 pages
Size: 8" x 11" (203mm x 279mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: The wonderful pirate themed cover of this issue highlights the work of Herbert Morton Stoops who is best known for his numerous covers to Blue Book Magazine.

Next there is a long feature on Ed Balcourt who is an artists representative as well as an outstanding illustrator in his own right. Ed reminisces about his work in the paperback field of the 1950s.

Rounding out this issue we have a feature on the various artists who have illustrated book covers in the ever popular Alfred Hitchcock's The Three Investigators series.

Illustration continues to lead the field and is a must read for collectors and historians as well as fans of the classic era of popular illustration.


Price: £20.00 ($32.00) (€24,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number thirty one
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 96 pages
Size: 8" x 11" (203mm x 279mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: The new issue of Illustration Magazine, #31, is now available. It features articles and art on J. Frederick Smith, Clark Hullings and John Fleming Gould. These features include commentary by each artist from private journals and rare interviews.

We especially enjoyed the piece on J. Frederick Smith. His transition from an illustrator to a photographer provides a unique insight into how an artist switches his career based on industry changes.


Price: £12.50 ($20.00) (€15,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number thirty
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 96 pages
Size: 8" x 11" (203mm x 279mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: This month's cover feature is a profile on Saturday Evening Post artist Ellen B. T. Pyle which contains many examples of her stunning covers and photographs from her personal life. Next is a feature on Edwin Georgi who was a major magazine illustrator in the 1940s and 1950s. He worked for all the major American magazines.

This issue is rounded out by an article on the modern day British horror illustrator Douglas Walters. Plus all the usual news and reviews including a couple of our own books!

For those with an interest in popular culture, commercial art and design, publishing history, comic books, paperbacks, pulp magazines, or collecting original art.


Price: £12.50 ($20.00) (€15,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number twenty nine
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 96 pages
Size: 8" x 11" (203mm x 279mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: In this special issue Dan Zimmer hosts a tribute to a long time favourite pulp artist Hugh J. Ward who is given an excellent in depth biography by the ever reliable David Saunders. Saunders has gathered the collection of H. J. Ward original art, rare photographs and mint copies of printer's proofs to illustrate this biography that contains contributions from the artist's family. Ward was known for his lurid, violent and sexy covers for a whole host of western pulps and perhaps most notoriously for several of the highly collected “Spicy” titles featuring assorted alluring damsels in distress and stages of undress. Again - a must for fans of hard-boiled pop culture.

Published quarterly and printed in full colour, each issue features the highest quality printing, photography and colour reproductions of original art available anywhere.

For those with an interest in popular culture, commercial art and design, publishing history, comic books, paperbacks, pulp magazines, or collecting original art.


Price: £12.50 ($20.00) (€15,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number twenty eight
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 96 pages
Size: 8" x 11" (203mm x 279mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: In this issue: Patricia Gostick profiles McClelland Barclay, the St. Louis born illustrator best known for his beautiful women and the long-running Body by Fisher advertising campaign. This is the most in-depth profile on Barclay's work yet published.

Also in this issue Gary Lovisi profiles paperback artist Rudy Nappi, known for his Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys covers, sexy digests and more.

Published quarterly and printed in full colour, each issue features the highest quality printing, photography and colour reproductions of original art available anywhere.

For those with an interest in popular culture, commercial art and design, publishing history, comic books, paperbacks, pulp magazines, or collecting original art.


Price: £12.50 ($20.00) (€15,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number twenty seven
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 112 pages
Size: 8" x 11" (215mm x 280mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: In this issue David Saunders profiles Rudolph Belarski - famous for his hundreds of pulp and paperback cover paintings - in the most in-depth profile of his work ever published. Lou Irmo profiles one of Australia's best known illustrators, Norman Lindsay, concentrating on his work for American publications. Finally we are treated to part two of Aron Gagliardo's profile of the American Academy of Art featuring the work of Gil Elvgren, Howard Terpning, Alex Ross and many others. Book reviews, Exhibition News and a letter column round out the issue.

Published quarterly and printed in full colour, each issue features the highest quality printing, photography and colour reproductions of original art available anywhere. For those with an interest in popular culture, commercial art and design, publishing history, comic books, paperbacks, pulp magazines, or collecting original art.

Now expanded to 112 pages and perfect square bound on considerably heavier paper, this excellent magazine is beginning to resemble a book more than a magazine.


Price: £12.50 ($20.00) (€15,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number twenty six
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 96 pages
Size: 8" x 11" (215mm x 280mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: This issues cover star is the immortal pulp hero The Shadow as depicted by his most famous illustrator during the 1940's Graves Gladney; a major retrospective of his work is this issues main feature. The article features many rarely seen pulp cover originals, a visual feast for aficionados of the genre.

The other main feature is the first instalment of Aron Gagliardo's profile on the important American Academy of Art, who's Chicago school helped develop the career of many fine American illustrators.

The issues concludes with a piece on well known children's book illustrator Nan Pollard who is highly regarded for her collected paper dolls and other activity books.

For those with an interest in popular culture, commercial art and design, publishing history, comic books, paperbacks, pulp magazines, or collecting original art, this magazines continues to be a major resource.


Price: £12.50 ($20.00) (€15,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number twenty five
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 96 pages
Size: 8" x 11" (215mm x 280mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: This issue's cover feature by David Saunders profiles Gloria Stoll, one of the few women who worked in the pulps, an article which promises many surprises even for the advanced pulp aficionado. Also in this issue Sanford Kossin, paperback and magazine illustrator gives us his career resume and to complete #25 there is an article on Weird Tales illustrator Hugh Doak Rankin.

Published quarterly and printed in full colour, each issue features the highest quality printing, photography and colour reproductions of original art available anywhere. For those with an interest in popular culture, commercial art and design, publishing history, comic books, paperbacks, pulp magazines, or collecting original art.


Price: £12.50 ($20.00) (€15,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number twenty three
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 64 pages
Size: 8" x 11" (215mm x 280mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: The work of Dean Cornwell is cover featured this issue, “The Dean of Illustrators” is still one of the most highly regarded artists from the golden age of magazine illustration and his work continues to be very influential. Other features include an article on the meticulous pen and ink illustrations of Murray Tinkelman, who is perhaps best known for his H.P. Lovecraft paperback covers. Also featured is a chapter from Frederic Taraba's forthcoming book Masters of American Illustration: 41 Illustrators and How they Work featuring Constantin Alajalov's work for The New Yorker and The Saturday Evening Post.

The issue is rounded out by short In Memoriam pieces covering the sad loss of both Barbara Louise Bradley and Dave Stevens. of Rocketeer and Bettie Page fame.


Price: £12.50 ($20.00) (€15,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number twenty two
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 96 pages
Size: 9" x 11" (229mm x 279mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: Another eagerly awaited issue of this stunning magazine. This issue features Frederick Blakeslee (1898 – 1973), an appreciation by David Saunders. Blakeslee was probably the artist for aviation pulps such as G-8 and his BattleAces and the article features wonderful illustrations along with a biography.

Morton Roberts: An Illusion of Life, tells the story of a magnificent magazine illustrator who's career was tragically cut short by his early death. The New Orleans funeral piece that begins the article is worth the price of admission alone. Finally we have The Story of the Merrill Company, a leader in the field of children's picture books during the 1940s and 50s. The usual news and reviews round out the issue.


Price: £12.50 ($20.00) (€15,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number twenty one
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 112 pages
Size: 9" x 11" (229mm x 279mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: Features a short biography of Gustaf Tenggren including examples of his calendar illustration, book illustrations and his design for Disney's first full length animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Other features include “Ephemeral Beauty: Al Parker and the American Woman's Magazine. 1940-1960” and “Illustrating An Era: The Charles E. Cooper Studio Part Three: Barbara Bradley”


Price: £12.50 ($20.00) (€15,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue number nineteen
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Artist: Various
Author: Published & edited by Daniel & Matthew Zimmer
Publisher: Illustration Magazine
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 112 pages
Size: 9" x 11" (229mm x 279mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: Another fine issue of this magazine, cover featured is Louis S. Glanzman: The Fine Art of Illustration, an insight into the work of famed DC Comics war artist Sam Glanzman's brother.

Other features include The Evolution of the West Coast's Leading Art Studio; noted SF magazine artist Em Emshwiller: The Art of Things to Come;an article on a lost piece by Norman Rockwell and Cara and Colleagues: A Continuing Legacy in American Illustration; plus the usual round up of reviews and exhibition news. (ISSN: 1543 4737)


Price: £12.50 ($20.00) (€15,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue Two reprint
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 80 pages
Size: 8" x 11" (203mm x 279mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: This “Director's Cut” reprint of the long out-of-print first issue has been completely redesigned and features new artwork and no advertising. Printed square bound it features a major article on the work of Norman Saunders to tie in with the recently published book. Other artists featured in this issue include Frank Frazetta and Perry Peterson. This is a beautiful, educational, and scholarly magazine devoted to the history of American illustration art. Published quarterly and printed in full colour, each issue features the highest quality printing, photography and colour reproductions of original art available anywhere.


Price: £12.50 ($20.00) (€15,00)    

Illustration (USA magazine) issue One reprint
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Artist: Various
Author: Dan Zimmer (Editor)
Publisher: The Illustrated Press
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 64 pages
Size: 8" x 11" (215mm x 280mm)
Format: Soft Cover
Illustrations: Full Colour

Synopsis: This “Director's Cut” reprint of the long out-of-print first issue has been completely redesigned and features new artwork and no advertising. Printed square bound it features articles on the work of Haddon H. Sunblom (his famous Santa Coca-Cola paintings are the cover feature), James Avati and Jack Faragasso. This is a beautiful, educational, and scholarly magazine devoted to the history of American illustration art.

Published quarterly and printed in full colour, each issue features the highest quality printing, photography and colour reproductions of original art available anywhere.

For those with an interest in popular culture, commercial art and design, publishing history, comic books, paperbacks, pulp magazines, or collecting original art.


Price: £12.50 ($20.00) (€15,00)