Illustrationintheworld

  Margaret Frances Bacon (May 2, 1895 – January 4, 1987) was an American artist, best known for her satirical caricatures. Bacon studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League of New York, where she taught herself drypoint and published her first caricatures in the student magazine. They soon appeared in publications such as The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, as well as major art galleries. Bacon earned many awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative work in the graphic arts.

  Mahlon Blaine was a twentieth century American artist who is remembered chiefly today for his brilliant illustrations to many books, both children's and adult. His mastery of line was, and remains, unique and masterful. Likened, rightfully, to Aubrey Beardsley, Blaine was another original mind, and his interest in portraying the animal nature of humanity lost him a wider audience. The only monograph on the artist so far published is The Art of Mahlon Blaine (Peregrine Books, 1982), and this wonderful book, which includes a deep insight into the artist by his colleague Gershon Legman, contains a good cross-section of Blaine's color and b-&-w art and an excellent bibliography of Blaine books compiled by Roland Trenary. Many other books illustrated by Blaine turn up commonly in secondhand bookshops: his illustrated versions of Voltaire's Candide and Sterne's A Sentimental Journey are frequently encountered. These books are good examples of his work, but the enthus...

  He’s a traditional and digital illustrator from Richmond, Virginia ( USA ). Chris created illustrations for various editorial publications (for exemple The Obama Foundation & My Brothers Keeper Program, The Baffler and Men’s Health Magazine). He has also done videogames, comics and animation.

  Charles Livingston Bull (1874–1932) was an American illustrator. Bull taxi studied dermy in Rochester, New York and is known for his illustration of wildlife. Bull's first job at the age of 16 was preparing animals for mounting at the Ward's Museum in Rochester, New York. He later worked as a taxidermist in Washington, D.C specializing in anatomy of birds and animals. During World War I, he designed recruiting posters. A notable example is Join the Army Air Service. Be an American eagle! which featured an eagle fighting a black bird. Bull lived for many years near the Bronx Zoo in New York to allow close access to be able to sketch living animals. He made many trips to Central and South America studying wildlife in their natural surroundings. Stories and illustrations for this trip were published in his book, Under the Roof of the Jungle. He made many drawings to help garner public interest in eagles. Bull was a resident of Oradell, New Jersey and donated several of his ...

  Daniel Warren Johnson (United States, ...) is an American writer, designer and illustrator. Active as a cartoonist and cover illustrator, he lives and works in Chicago . He has collaborated with the most important publishing houses including Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics and Image Comics . It aroused the interest of the sector following the diffusion via the internet of the web-comic Space Mullet, published in 2016 by Dark Horse . Gets popularity and critical acclaim with the Extremity series, published by the Skybound imprint of Image Comics, for which he gets an Eisner Award nomination. Among his other works are: The Ghost Fleet, Murder Falcon, Wonder Woman: Dead Earth (for the imprint DC Black Label) .

  Clarence Coles Phillips (October 3, 1880 – June 13, 1927) was an American artist and illustrator who signed his early works C. Coles Phillips, but after 1911 worked under the abbreviated name, Coles Phillips. He is known for his stylish images of women and a signature use of negative space in the paintings he created for advertisements and the covers of popular magazines. Phillips was born in Springfield, Ohio, the son of Anna Seys and Jacob Phillips. From 1902 to 1904, he attended Kenyon College in his native state, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. His illustrations were published in the 1901–1904 editions of the school's yearbook, The Reveille. After leaving Kenyon, Phillips moved to Manhattan, determined to earn a living through his art. He took night classes for three months at the Chase School of Art—his only formal artistic training—before establishing his own advertising agency. One of Phillips's employees was the young Edward Hopper, his former classmate. ...

  September 30, 1952) was an American artist and illustrator who painted cover art for thousands of pulp fiction magazines and paperback books. One of the most prolific pulp fiction artists of the 20th century, Bergey is recognized for creating, at the height of his career in 1948, the iconic cover of Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) for Popular Library. Earle K. Bergey's cover painting for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, circa 1948. Bergey was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to A. Frank and Ella Kulp Bergey. He attended Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1921 to 1926. He initially went to work in the art departments of Philadelphia newspapers including Public Ledger, and he drew the comic strip Deb Days in 1927 for the Public Ledger Syndicate. Early in his career, Bergey contributed many covers to the pulp magazines of publisher Fiction House. By the mid-1930s, Bergey made a home and studio in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and he married in 1935. In the late ...

  Alex Raymond, born Alexander Gillespie Raymo nd (New Rochelle, October 2, 1909 - Westport, September 6, 1956), was an American cartoonist, primarily known for creating Flash Gordon in 1934. He is the great-uncle of actors Matt Dillon and Kevin Dillon . After attending the Grand Central School of Art, he began collaborating with Russ Westover, before moving in 1931 to the studio of the Young brothers, authors of Cino and Franco. The turning point was 1933, when the King Features Syndicate entrusted him with three strip series at the same time; thus, in 1934 Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim and Secret Agent X-9 (all later the subject of film serials) were released, the latter written for the first few episodes by Dashiell Hammett. In 1935 Raymond abandoned Secret Agent X-9 and in 1944 he enlisted in the marines, from which he was discharged two years later after earning the rank of major. In the meantime his series are continued by his assistants and, back home, the American master...

  Elmer Simms Campbell (January 2, 1906 – January 27, 1971) was an American commercial artist best known as the cartoonist who signed his work, E. Simms Campbell. The first African-American cartoonist published in nationally distributed, slick magazines, he created Esky, the familiar pop-eyed mascot of Esquire. Campbell was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of educators, Elizabeth Simms Campbell and Elmer Campbell. His father was the assistant principal of Summer High School in St. Louis and had been a track and football star at Howard University. His father died when Campbell was four years old. With his mother, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she attended the University of Chicago. Campbell was graduated from that city's Englewood Technical Prep Academy. There he was the cartoonist for the high school's weekly newspaper, which was edited by future International News Service general manager, Seymour Berkson. He then enrolled at the University of Chicago. After one y...

  Constantin Alajálov (also Aladjalov) (18 November 1900 — 23 October 1987) was an Armenian-American painter and illustrator. He was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, and immigrated to New York City in 1923, becoming a US citizen in 1928. Many of his illustrations were covers for such magazines as The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, and Fortune. He also illustrated many books, including the first edition of George Gershwin's Song Book. His works are in New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum. He died in Amenia, New York.