Some Stylish Cover Art Work By Don Ulsh.

Some Stylish Cover Art Work by Don Ulsh.

“Appalling! This beast steals the limelight from all of our stars!”

Karl Arnold (1883-1953) illustration for German magazine, Simplicissimus (January 1931).

Beautiful page from St.Nicholas Magazine by Walt Kelly creator of the comic strip Pogo and Disney Animator you can see some influence from Harrison Cary with this crowd shot.

A Illustration by Abner Dean for Life Magazine for some articles over George Orwell’s Novel “1984”.I may be alone in this camp but personally I think Dean’s art style suits Orwell’s novel perfectly it’s cartoonish and has a slight unsettling feel to it just fits the vibe of the book perfectly I wish he illustrated the full novel he did a couple more illustrations for this article though.

Great Panel by Cartoonist H.M Bateman probably one of the best ever British cartoonist what I like in this one is how the man’s rage is represented in this grotesque abstract blob of anger and how the whole world seems to bend to his frustration in the background.Not to mention the great poses and facial expressions.

Illustration’s by William Wallace Denslow(1856-1915) for his book Denslow’s Mother Goose.He’s probably best known as the illustrator for L.Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” .Denslow is such a fascinating artist to me for his time his drawings look pretty modern the limited colors,minimalist backgrounds, bold choices like just having a shape as a background,and his cartoonish thick outlined designs are pretty graphically ahead in kids book illustration for the early 1900s shame he didn’t illustrate the other Oz books don’t get me wrong I love John R Neil but Denslows art just has a odd charm to it I want to see in the other Oz books.