Girl Reading, George Clausen (1852 – 1944)
On the Way to the Doctor, 1974 by Charles W. Stewart (1915 – 2001).
Part of a series of unpublished illustrations that were to illustrate Mervyn Peake’s 1950 novel, Gormenghast. (More here.)
Dope Rider illustration, 2021 by Paul Kirchner (b. 1952). From A Fistful of Delirium.
Job, His Wife, and His Friends, c.1785 by William Blake (1757-1827)
A Forced Duplicity Is the Beginning of Conventional Wisdom, 2020 by Jim Woodring (b. 1952)
A panel from Barry Windsor-Smith’s 2021 novel Monsters
“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:
Thanksgiving, 2003 by John Currin (b. 1962)
The Horn, 2014 by Neo Rauch (b. 1960)
Reading the Mountain, 2015 by Sergio Ceccotti (b. 1935)
Illustration for Raw #4, 1982 by Charles Burns (b. 1955)
“Pig,” from Zap Comix #2, 1968 by Victor Moscoso (b. 1936)
Portraits of Kafka and His Father, 1957 by José Luis Cuevas (1934–2017)
Illustration for Frankenstein by Bernie Wrightson (1948-2017)
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