I want to pass along some links to a dandy blog I visit on a frequent basis, Today's Inspiration. It focus on illustration -- for magazines, books, whatever -- and the illustrators who have made their mark in our cultural awareness of our world. Many of them toiled away, basically unknown -- not everyone became a household word like Norman Rockwell.
My reason for pointing to this blog today is that its creator, Leif Peng, has focused a number of posts on illustrator Austin Briggs. Briggs toiled in the pulp magazines -- primarily Blue Book -- and followed Alex Raymond as artist on the Flash Gordon newspaper strip, before moving to the slicks.
Peng looks primarily at Briggs' work for the slicks, then launches into profiles of artists who worked on Blue Book. Here are the links to Today's Inspiration's posts looking at Briggs.
AUSTIN BRIGGS at Today's Inspiration:
The Obstinate Briggs Standard
Development Through Struggle
Regarded an an Important Young Illustrator
BLUE BOOK ARTISTS at Today's Inspiration:
The Artists of Blue Book: John Fulton
The Artists of Blue Book: Hamilton Greene
The Artists of Blue Book: Maurice Bower
Posted by ds at March 4, 2009 09:28 PM
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