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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Hour of the Wolverton
This is one of Basil Wolverton's apocalyptic illustrations for Herbert W. Armstrong's 1975 in Prophecy (1956). To read the entire booklet, click on the heading above and scroll down through the Herbert W. Armstrong Searchable Library: Books and Booklets. Almost all of the Wolverton drawings for 1975 in Prophecy illustrate passages from Revelations.
In the late 1950s and through the 1960s, Wolverton wrote and illustrated The Bible Story and The Story of Man for Armstrong's magazine, The Plain Truth. In 1959 I used to listen to Armstrong's radio program, The World Tomorrow, which interlinked Biblical prophecies with current news. When I learned that Wolverton illustrated for The Plain Truth, I got on the mailing list, and free issues would arrive each month.
I just did a lot of searching to figure out exactly when The Bible Story serial began. If you want to see this from the beginning, go to Armstrong Searchable Library: The Plain Truth 1950-1959 and begin on page five of the November 1958 issue. It starts with an introduction explaining how Wolverton became associated with Armstrong's organization.
Wolverton's son, Monte Wolverton, did eye-grabbing color versions of the 1975 in Prophecy illustrations which can be seen here and also at Monte Wolverton's own site.
This is one of Basil Wolverton's apocalyptic illustrations for Herbert W. Armstrong's 1975 in Prophecy (1956). To read the entire booklet, click on the heading above and scroll down through the Herbert W. Armstrong Searchable Library: Books and Booklets. Almost all of the Wolverton drawings for 1975 in Prophecy illustrate passages from Revelations.
In the late 1950s and through the 1960s, Wolverton wrote and illustrated The Bible Story and The Story of Man for Armstrong's magazine, The Plain Truth. In 1959 I used to listen to Armstrong's radio program, The World Tomorrow, which interlinked Biblical prophecies with current news. When I learned that Wolverton illustrated for The Plain Truth, I got on the mailing list, and free issues would arrive each month.
I just did a lot of searching to figure out exactly when The Bible Story serial began. If you want to see this from the beginning, go to Armstrong Searchable Library: The Plain Truth 1950-1959 and begin on page five of the November 1958 issue. It starts with an introduction explaining how Wolverton became associated with Armstrong's organization.
Wolverton's son, Monte Wolverton, did eye-grabbing color versions of the 1975 in Prophecy illustrations which can be seen here and also at Monte Wolverton's own site.
©2008 Monte Wolverton
Labels: apocalypse, illustration, novel, wolverton
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Sunday, May 04, 2008
Gabriel Bá
Cover illustration by Brazilian artist Gabriel Bá. Control click to hear Paul Desmond play Luiz Bonfa's "Manha de Carnaval" from Black Orpheus. Control click to hear "The Girl from Ipanema" by Dictionaraoke (songs created by splicing together online dictionary audio clips). Go to Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá blog. Click to read Casanova #1. Click for The Umbrella Academy excerpt. Gabriel captures Fábio inking Casanova:
Control click above for Jeffrey Siegel's Straight No Chaser salute to Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Cover illustration by Brazilian artist Gabriel Bá. Control click to hear Paul Desmond play Luiz Bonfa's "Manha de Carnaval" from Black Orpheus. Control click to hear "The Girl from Ipanema" by Dictionaraoke (songs created by splicing together online dictionary audio clips). Go to Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá blog. Click to read Casanova #1. Click for The Umbrella Academy excerpt. Gabriel captures Fábio inking Casanova:
Labels: ba, illustration, jobim
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Franklin Booth illustration (1940)
This illustration by Franklin Booth is scanned from the book, Mimeograph Illustration Inset Portfolio: Drawings by Foremost Artists on Stencils Ready For Printing, published by the A.B. Dick Company (Chicago) in 1940. Customers could order "Mimeograph Photochemical Stencil Insets" from this loose-leaf catalog of images, and these could be inserted into stencils, as explained: "A sharp knife or razor blade and adhesive Mimeograph Cement is all that is necessary for applying insets to stencils." The catalog itself was mimeographed, as noted: "This book in its entirety has been printed from photochemical stencils."
This illustration by Franklin Booth is scanned from the book, Mimeograph Illustration Inset Portfolio: Drawings by Foremost Artists on Stencils Ready For Printing, published by the A.B. Dick Company (Chicago) in 1940. Customers could order "Mimeograph Photochemical Stencil Insets" from this loose-leaf catalog of images, and these could be inserted into stencils, as explained: "A sharp knife or razor blade and adhesive Mimeograph Cement is all that is necessary for applying insets to stencils." The catalog itself was mimeographed, as noted: "This book in its entirety has been printed from photochemical stencils."
Labels: booth, illustration, mimeograph
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