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Contemporary Magazines
Big Fun Magazine Featuring Scorchy Smith, Lance, and Captain Easy
BIG FUN COMICS MAGAZINE #2. [SN21116M] $10 Los Angeles: 2004. 1st. 4to (11-13”), 64pp, b&w, color wraps. VF. Scorchy Smith by Noel Sickles & Bert Christman (10/12-12/2/36), Captain Easy by Leslie Turner (1/17-1/23/49), and Lance by Warren Tufts (three Sundays in color!). Plus a text piece on Bert Christman. Great reproduction.
BIG FUN COMICS MAGAZINE #3. [SN21127M] $10 Los Angeles: 2005. 1st. 4to (11-13”), 64pp, b&w, color wraps. VF. Scorchy Smith by Bert Christman (12/14/36 -2/17/37), Captain Easy by Leslie Turner (7/25-12/8/49), and Lance by Warren Tufts (three Sundays in color!). Plus a collection of Frank Robbins cartoon advertisements and a text piece on Bert Christman. Great reproduction.
BIG FUN COMICS MAGAZINE #4. [SN21141M] $10 Los Angeles: 2006. 1st. 4to (11-13”), 40pp, b&w, color wraps. VF. Scorchy Smith by Bert Christman (2/18-4/10/37), Captain Easy by Leslie Turner (12/9/49-2/4/50), and Lance by Warren Tufts (11 Sundays). Comic Art Magazine
COMIC ART #1. [SN24088] $50 Kirkwood, MO: 2002. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 80pp, color, wraps. VF. The first issue of this magazine devoted to comic art. This issue has articles on Frank King, Noel Sickles, Gary Panter, Tarpe Mills, and Drawn & Quarterly publisher Chris Oliveros. Cover by Seth. Two-color comic strip insert by Jaime Hernandez. Long OP.
COMIC ART #2. [SN24089] $50 Kirkwood, MO: 2003. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 80pp, color, wraps. VF. The magazine devoted to comic art. This issue has articles on Jack Cole's men's magazine cartoons (with thirteen cartoons reproduced as full-page illustrations from the original art!), Alex Raymond, Rip Kirby & the photorealistic comic strip (by our own Armando Mendez), Hergé & the Clear Line, Richard Sala, Rory Hayes. Two-color comic strip insert by David Collier. Long OP.
COMIC ART #3. [SN25930] $35 St. Louis, MO: 2003. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 80pp, color, wraps. VF. From the publisher of Illustration Magazine, a companion devoted to comic art. This issue has six articles: "Chris Ware: In the Studio" "A Visit with Norman Pettingill" "[Rodolphe] Topffer in America" "Mike Sekowsky" by Mark Evanier, "Hergé and the Clear Line: Part Two", "The Art of Savage Pencil" by Glenn Bray. Laid in is a two-color comic strip insert by Mitch O'Connell. OP.
COMIC ART #5. [SN13963] $20 Kirkwood, MO: 2004. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 80pp, color, wraps. VF. This issue has five articles: Crockett Johnson, Art Spiegelman, Don Flowers, Rand Holmes, and Kim Deitch. Two-color comic strip insert by Rick Prol.
COMIC ART #7. [SN25931] $35 St. Louis: 2005. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 80pp, color, wraps. Fine. This issue has two articles on Harvey Kurtzman. OP.
COMIC ART #8. [SN22370] $20 Oakland: Buenaventura Press, 2006. 1st. 4to (11-13”), 176pp, color, wraps. VF. Richard McGuire by Chris Ware/Thierry Smolderen/Françoise Mouly. Cartoonists in Navajo Country. Drew Friedman: We Can't All Be Movie Stars, Friedman. Of Labels, Loops, and Bubbles: Solving the Historical Puzzle of the Speech Balloon. The Dark Mirrors of Jim Starlin's Warlock. The Art of the S.S. Adams Prank and Magic Co. From the Annals of Comic Art: The Man Who Killed Wally Wood. Portfolio: Le Rire. Nightmares/Epiphanies: The Pulp Art of Edd Cartier. And a small bound book: Forty Cartoon Books of Interest by Seth.
COMIC ART #9. [SN24882] $20 Oakland: Buenaventura Press, 2007. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 176pp, color, wraps. VF. This lovable journal should be subtitled "The comics magazine even more esoteric than The Comics Journal!" This second double-sized annual features cover by cartoonist Tim Hensley, plus articles on Jerry Moriarty, Chester Gould, Abner Dean, Gluyas Williams, Kaz, Lyonel Feininger, George Clark, Jesse Marsh, Simplicissimus, Richard Taylor, and new comics by Dan Zettwoch and Aline Kominsky-Crumb. The magazine comes with a separate, exclusive 80-page booklet, titled Cartooning: Philosophy & Practice, by Italian comics master Ivan Brunetti. Heart of Gould: The Progress of Plainclothes Tracy by Tom De Haven. The Career of Abner Dean. The Story of Kaz. Lyonel Feininger's Lost Continent (1871-1956). The Discreet Smile of George Clark's Americana. Jesse Marsh: History of His Work in Comics /A Q & A with Gilbert Hernandez. Portfolio: Simplicissimus. Mystery Man: The Early Comic Art of Richard Taylor. Why I Write Only About Myself...by Aline Kominsky-Crumb.
DRAWN & QUARTERLY VOL. 3. [SN25035] $30 Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2000. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 178pp, color and b&w, French wraps. NF. This oversize anthology includes the latest Monsieur Jean album (graphic novel) in its entirety! The album's only publication in English. Other contents: 31 early Gasoline Alley Sunday pages by Frank King; a story without words The Pillow by Matticchio; Paul Apprentice Typographer by Michel Rabagliati; The Orther One by Harry Mayerovitch; Blutch; Seth; others.
DRAWN & QUARTERLY VOL. 5. [SN23426M] $35 Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2003. 1st. 4to (11-13”), 192pp, color and b&w, French wraps. NF (mild shelf wear). This volume features Dupuy & Berberian's fifth Monsieur Jean album - Comme s'il en pleuvait - from 2001 in its entirety (55 pages)! The album's only publication in English. Dupuy & Berberian also contribute the wraparound covers and endpapers. Comics by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Kept), Harry Mayerovitch (Way to Go), and others. OP.
DRAWN & QUARTERLY VOL. 5. [SN22657] $30 Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2003. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 192pp, color and b&w, French wraps. NF. Includes Dupuy & Berberian's latest Monsieur Jean album (graphic novel) in its entirety! The album's only publication in English.
ILLO #1. [SN22340X] $10 St. Louis: 2007. 1st. 4to (11-13”), 80pp, color, wraps. VF. From the publisher of Illustration Magazine, a new magazine dedicated to the field of contemporary illustration. Beautifully designed, with the highest quality reproduction and thick white stock. This inaugural issue features long features on Mitch O'Connell and Mark Schultz; and shorter articles on Nathan Jurevicius and Brian Taylor.
ILLO #2. [SN26607X] $15 St. Louis: 2009. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 96pp, color, wraps. VF. From the publisher of Illustration Magazine, a new issue of this magazine dedicated to the field of contemporary illustration. Beautifully designed, with the highest quality reproduction and thick white stock. This issue features long features on Michael Cho, James Gurney, Nancy Stahl, and Zina Saunders.
ILLUSTRATION '05 #2. [SN21975X] $9 St. Paul, MO: 2005. 1st. 4to, 80pp, color, wraps. VF. The issue's cover feature is magazine & children’s book illustrator-caricaturist C.F. Payne with a 29-page interview and 42 illustrations in color. Artist-nostalgist Leslie Cabarga is profiled. Illustration Magazine Illustration Magazine. A slick full-color magazine devoted to twentieth-century illustrators. Images are mostly from original art, excellently reproduced, and the design of the magazine is simple and elegant, putting the focus where it should be: on the artwork rather than the magazine's graphic design. Images Magazine A magazine devoted to reproducing rare illustration artwork from the turn of the last century 1880-1920s. Every issue is a visual feast! Oversize 9" x 12" format, 100 lb. coated stock. Excellent reproduction of images you've never seen before from the artists you love (T.S. Sullivant, Joseph Clement Coll, Franklin Booth, Heinrich Kley) and others you should get to know (Harry Rountree, Frank Brangwyn, Gustav Tenggren).
IMAGES #10. [SN24248X] $25 Palo Alto: Jim Vadeboncoeur, 2008. 1st. Oblong 4to (11-13" wide), 44pp, color, wraps. VF. A collection of turn-of-the-century illustration. Excellent color reproduction on 100 lb. coated stock. Printed via Extra-fine screenless Stochastic printing.
IMAGES #9. [SN22873X] $20 Palo Alto, CA: Jim Vadeboncoeur, 2007. 1st. 4to (11-13”), 44pp, color, wraps. VF. A collection of turn-of-the-century illustration. This is the Glamour issue with stunning, full-page illustrations by Mossa, Dulac, and Henry Clive, C. Coles Phillips, Maxfield Parrish, Harvey Dunn, Hermann Vogel, Arthur Rackham, and Warwick Goble. Plus Heinrich Kley in the InkSpot and many other color pieces by little-known masters of illustration. Excellent color reproduction on 100 lb. coated stock. Printed via Extra-fine screenless Stochastic printing.
IMAGES #8. [SN22872X] $20 Palo Alto, CA: Jim Vadeboncoeur, 2007. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 44pp, color, wraps. VF. Filled with art from the pages of obscure and rare books, magazines, calendars and ephemera from American and European Fin de Siècle primary sources. 17 pages of rarely seen color art by Heinrich Kley - with a special focus on his commercial heavy industry work. An 1912 Hans Christian Andersen calendar is reproduced in its entirety (!) with 13 beautiful paintings by Heinrich Lefler & Joseph Urban. J.M. Condé in the InkSpot! Plus: Arthur Rackham. Harvey Dunn. N.C. Wyeth. René Bull. Edmund Dulac. Charles Folkard. Hermann Vogel. and more... Excellent color reproduction on 100-lb. coated stock. Printed via Extra-fine screenless Stochastic printing. Cover by Kley.
IMAGES #5. [SN22869X] $20 Palo Alto, CA: Jim Vadeboncoeur, 2003. 1st. 4to (11-13”), 40pp, color, wraps. VF. Rare illustration artwork from select magazines and books from 1891-1922. 28 different artists, including: John W. Alexander. J.H. Amschewitz. W.J. Aylward. Anna Whelan Betts. Robert Blum. René Bull. Charles E. Chambers. H.C. Christy. Walter Appleton Clark. Joseph Clement Coll. Frank Craig. Charles Folkard. William Harnden Foster. Walter Dean Goldbeck. Arthur I. Keller. Jessie M. King. J. C. Leyendecker. Neysa McMein. John R. Neill. Kay Nielsen. Maxfield Parrish. Willy Pogany. Howard Pyle. Herbert Railton. Harry Rountree. Tony Sarg. Ernest Wallcousins. Lawson Wood. Excellent color reproduction on 100 lb coated stock. Cover by Joseph Clement Coll.
IMAGES #3. [SN22867X] $25 Palo Alto, CA: Jim Vadeboncoeur, 2002. 1st. 4to (11-13”), 36pp, color, wraps. VF. A magazine devoted to excellent reproduction of rare illustration artwork from the turn of the last century 1880-1920s. This issue's featured artist is Harry Rountree with 28 color and six b&w illustrations including four original paintings as full-page color plates! E. A. Abbey. Harold H. Betts. Frank Brangwyn. Andre Castaigne. J. C. Coll. Will Crawford. Walter Everett. W. Russell Flint. Keith Henderson. Heinrich Kley. Alphonse Mucha. Coles Phillips. Arthur Rackham. Herbert Railton. H.T. "Penny" Ross. Frank Schoonover. Gustaf Tenggren. Excellent color reproduction on 100 lb coated stock. Cover by Harry Rountree.
BLACK & WHITE IMAGES 2. [SN20830X] $20 Palo Alto, CA: Jim Vadeboncoeur, 2004. 1st. 4to (11-13”), vi, 106pp, over 300 b&w illustrations, wraps. VF. A big fat collection of pen & ink pieces. Featuring a section on T. S. Sullivant reprinting his entire Fables for the Times - a series of spoofs of Aesop's Fables that ran in the old Life magazine and were collected into a single volume in 1896. 68 other artists including Abbey, Artzybasheff, Barton, Benda, Brinkley, Cady, Christy, Clark, Coll, Cornwell, Fisher, Flagg, Frost, Gibson, Godwin, Groesbeck, Herriman, King, Lawson, Leigh, Lindsay, Lowell, McCay, O'Neill, Pyle, Rackham, Robinson, Sime, Smith, Steele, Stoops, Wyeth.
BLACK & WHITE IMAGES 3. [SN20860X] $20 Palo Alto, CA: Jim Vadeboncoeur, 2006. 1st. 4to (11-13”), 112pp, 230 b&w illustrations, wraps. VF. Limited to 2000 copies. A big fat collection of pen & ink pieces. Forty different artists: Austen, Beard, Booth, Broadhead, Cady (32 pages), Chapman, Christy, Clarke, Cory, Craig, Crawford, Dart, Doré, DuMond, Dunn, Fish, Fosmire, Gibson, Gruger, Johnson, Leigh, Meylan, Mucha, Neilsen, O'Neill, Parrish, Paus, Penfield, Pogany, Pyle, Rackham, Railton, Sandys, Sargent, Sarka, Stanlaws, Steele, Sullivant, Taber, Talberg, Walker, Williams, Wyeth.
L'INEDIT #22. [SN22124X] $20 Belgium: 2006. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 76pp, color and b&w, wraps. VF. Subtitled "the drawings that you doubtless never would not have seen," this Belgian fanzine features sketchbook drawings of bande dessinée artists. This issue features a 22-page Herval sketchbook: sketches, roughs, and penciled pages, 4 pages in color. 8 pages of animal drawings by Frank. A Jean Barbaud sketchbook of 8 pages. Also: artwork from Rigano, Wieringo, others. Excellent reproduction on heavy slick stock.
L'INEDIT #23. [SN24407X] $20 Belgium: 2007. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 76p, color and b&w, wraps. VF.
ON A MARCHE SUR LA BULLE NO. 11. [SN22650X] $15 France: 2006. 1st. Small 8vo (7.5-8”), color and b&w, wraps. VF. Small press French magazine with extensive interviews with Claire Wendling, Pierre Alary, Barbucci and Canepa. Features many sketches by all the artists featured.
STAY TOONED! #2. [SN26839X] $9 Madison, MS: 2008. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 92pp, b&w, color wraps. Fine. Subtitled "Profiles of Professional Cartoonists." This new trade journal for cartoonists is the successor to the late great Cartoonist Profiles. Profusely illustrated profile/interviews with: Mike Peters, Tom Bancroft, Joe Staton, Mason Mastroianni, Bill Day. Shorter interviews with: Jules Feiffer, Berkeley Breathed, Ben Towle. Plus columns by R.C. Harvey and Tom Richmond and other short pieces. (The publisher is sold out of issues #1 and #3.)
STAY TOONED! #4. [SN26840X] $9 Madison, MS: 2009. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 92pp, b&w, color wraps. Fine. Subtitled "Profiles of Professional Cartoonists." This new trade journal for cartoonists is the successor to the late great Cartoonist Profiles. Profusely illustrated profile/interviews with: Jack Davis, Paul Coker, Sergio Aragones, Don "Duck" Ewing, Tom Richmond, Ted Rall, John Kovaleski, Scott Nickel. Plus Nick Meglin, R.C. Harvey on Don Martin, and other short pieces. (The publisher is sold out of issues #1 and #3.)
TRIPWIRE ANNUAL 2007. [SN22643X] $15 London: 2007. 1st. 4to (11-13”), 132pp, color, wraps. VF. Covering comics, film, TV and more. Interviews with: Mike Mignola, Duncan Fegredo & Guillermo del Toro on Hellboy. Matt Groening. Alan Moore. Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale on Heroes. Pat Mills, Alan Grant, John Wagner and other Judge Dredd creators. Steve Niles & David Slade on 30 Days of Night. Plus articles and reviews
TRIPWIRE ANNUAL 2008. [SN24400X] $15 London: 2008. 1st. 4to (11-13"), color, wraps. VF. Covering comics, film, TV and more. Interviews with: Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, and Bill Morrison on Futurama; Tim Kring and Jeph Loeb on Heroes; fantasy writer Michael Moorcock; Brian Fuller on Pushing Daisies; Posy Simmonds; and others. Articles on Doctor Who; Superman; Primeval; and much more.
De Bure, Gilles. THE GOLDEN AGE OF MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION: THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES. [SN26637] $45 Paris: Editions du Collectionneur, 1997. 1st. Square 4to (11-13"), 197pp, over 300 color illustrations, cloth. Fine/Fine. |
