Girl Reading, George Clausen (1852 – 1944)
Tag: Art
The Hall of Spiders (An Illustration for Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast) — Charles W. Stewart
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Part of a series of unpublished illustrations that were to illustrate Mervyn Peake’s 1950 novel, Gormenghast.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 — Paul Kirchner
Dope Rider illustration, 2021 by Paul Kirchner (b. 1952). From A Fistful of Delirium.
Job, His Wife, and His Friends — William Blake
Job, His Wife, and His Friends, c.1785 by William Blake (1757-1827)
“Christmas on Lipponia” — Moebius
To escape the insidious commercial excesses of Christmas (Glen Baxter)
A Forced Duplicity Is the Beginning of Conventional Wisdom — Jim Woodring
A Forced Duplicity Is the Beginning of Conventional Wisdom, 2020 by Jim Woodring (b. 1952)
Monster Mash — Barry Windsor-Smith
A panel from Barry Windsor-Smith’s 2021 novel Monsters
Read “Fun City in Ba’dan” by William S. Burroughs with illustrations by underground comix legend S. Clay Wilson
“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 — John Currin
Thanksgiving, 2003 by John Currin (b. 1962)
The Horn — Neo Rauch
The Horn, 2014 by Neo Rauch (b. 1960)
Reading the Mountain — Sergio Ceccotti
Reading the Mountain, 2015 by Sergio Ceccotti (b. 1935)
Untitled (Illustration for Raw) — Charles Burns
Illustration for Raw #4, 1982 by Charles Burns (b. 1955)
“Pig” — Victor Moscoso
“Pig,” from Zap Comix #2, 1968 by Victor Moscoso (b. 1936)
Portraits of Kafka and His Father — José Luis Cuevas
Portraits of Kafka and His Father, 1957 by José Luis Cuevas (1934–2017)
Illustration for Frankenstein — Bernie Wrightson
Illustration for Frankenstein by Bernie Wrightson (1948-2017)
The Monster — Odilon Redon
The Monster, Odilon Redon (1840–1916)
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