Thanks to the efforts of Anthony Tollin and Will Murray, more pulp fans today are more familiar with the artwork Tom Lovell created for the pulp magazines. Lovell's black-and-white work has been appearing in some of The Shadow reprint volumes over the past two years. And the new reprint volumes of The Whisperer will feature cover paintings Lovell created for the series' original run by Street & Smith.
Over at the Today's Inspiration blog, Leif Peng has been running a series of posts about Lovell's career as an illustrator in the slicks. These are nicely done and very informative. Although the work Lovell created for the slicks is quite different from that he executed for the pulps, the expertise he developed working in the latter led to the former. (Or something like that.)
You'll find Leif Peng's posts on Lovell here:
Monday, April 06, 2009
Tom Lovell: "...this youthful-looking, soft-spoken man..."
http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2009/04/tom-lovell-this-youthful-looking-soft.html
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Sorry Folks...
http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2009/04/sorry-folks.html
Monday, April 13, 2009
Tom Lovell: Friends and Influences
http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2009/04/tom-lovell-friends-and-influences.html
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Norman Kent on the "Meticulous" Tom Lovell
http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2009/04/norman-kent-on-meticulous-tom-lovell.html
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Tom Lovell: Dealing with "the model problem"
http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2009/04/tom-lovell-dealing-with-model-problem.html
Friday, April 17, 2009
Tom Lovell "down by the bay"
http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2009/04/tom-lovell-down-by-bay.html
Lovell's Shadow illustrations are included in the reprint of The Red Blot and other volumes, available through Amazon.com. Click here.
Posted by ds at May 2, 2009 12:23 PM
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