Lost, 1886 by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931)
“Fun City in Ba’dan” was published in Arcade, vol. 1, no. 4 in the winter of 1975. The story is an excerpt from William S. Burroughs’ then-novel-in-progress, Cities of the Red Night and is illustrated by underground comix legend S. Clay Wilson. The front matter includes a portrait of Burroughs that doesn’t show up in the story.
The rest of the story (NSFW) is after the jump:
Clinic (Phase IV), 2021 by Eric White (b. 1968)
The Cannibals, 2017 by Adam Miller (b. 1979)
The Burial of the Sardine, c. 1812–19 by Francisco Goya (1746-1828)
A panel from OMAC: One Man Army Corps, vol. 1 no. 2, 1974 by Jack Kirby (1917-1994). Inked by D. Bruce Berry (1924–1998). No colorist credited.
Carcass, 1989 by Gely Korzhev (1925-2012)
Thanksgiving, 2003 by John Currin (b. 1962)
The Horn, 2014 by Neo Rauch (b. 1960)
Many Men, 1968 by Ben Shahn (1898-1969)
The First Thanksgiving, 1973 by Warrington Colescott (1921 – 2018)
A grave and dark-clad company!” quoth Goodman Brown.
In truth, they were such. Among them, quivering to-and-fro, between gloom and splendor, appeared faces that would be seen, next day, at the council-board of the province, and others which, Sabbath after Sabbath, looked devoutly heavenward, and benignantly over the crowded pews, from the holiest pulpits in the land. Some affirm, that the lady of the governor was there. At least, there were high dames well known to her, and wives of honored husbands, and widows, a great multitude, and ancient maidens, all of excellent repute, and fair young girls, who trembled lest their mothers should espy them. Either the sudden gleams of light, flashing over the obscure field, bedazzled Goodman Brown, or he recognized a score of the church-members of Salem village, famous for their especial sanctity. Good old Deacon Gookin had arrived, and waited at the skirts of that venerable saint, his reverend pastor. But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see, that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints. Scattered, also, among their pale-faced enemies, were the Indian priests, or powows, who had often scared their native forest with more hideous incantations than any known to English witchcraft.
–From “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835)
Kangaroo Blank, 1988 by Imants Tillers (b. 1950)
Reading the Mountain, 2015 by Sergio Ceccotti (b. 1935)
God, Please Give Me a New Name, 1985 by Raymond Pettibon (b. 1957)
Illustration for Moby-Dick, 2014 by Christophe Chabouté (b. 1967)
Four Studies of Frogs, by Jacques de Gheyn II (c.1565 –1629)
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