On this day, May 28, 1982, illustrator Joseph Bodner died California. After service in WWII, Bodner studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. His work typically focused on the vanishing western imagery. His painting The Resurrection of Jonathan was exhibited at the premiere of the movie, Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Bodner also provided the
On this day, May 27, 1900, pulp illustrator Rudolph Belarski was born in Dupont, Pennsylvania. He studied art through the mail-order International Correspondence School Inc. and then in Brooklyn at the Pratt Institute. Belarski worked for Dell Publications creating illustrations and covers. He also did pulp illustrations and then worked for Popular Library creating covers. In
On this day, May 26, 1879, artist and illustrator George Frederick Bensell died Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bensell studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later taught there. His secondary occupation was illustrating for magazines and books.
On this day, May 25, 1874, illustrator Charles Livingston Bull was born in West Walworth, New York. Bull initially studied taxidermy because his father thought art a waste of time. Eventually Bull became an illustrator specializing in wildlife images. In addition to producing illustrations for the major magazines of the day, Bull also produced books illustrations;
On this day, May 24, 1842, illustrator Henry Sandham was born in Montreal, Quebec. Trained as a painter and photographer, he began creating illustrations for Scribner’s Monthly in 1877. Between 1880 and 1901, Sandham lived in Boston, after which he moved to London.
On this day, May 23, 1915, illustrator William Timmins was born in Chicago, Illinois. The son of illustrator Harry Timmins, William study art at the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design, and the Grand Central Art School in New York. Timmins worked in pulp and science fiction illustration and then specialized in western scenes.
On this day, May 22, 1907, the Belgian comic-book creator Hergé was born in Etterbeek, Brussels. As a boy Hergé was interested in scouting and produced illustrations of Scouting and Catholic magazines. While working for a newspaper he began serializing the first of his stories featuring the boy reporter, Tintin.
On this day, May 21, 1922, illustrator and political cartoonist Rollin Kirby (1875-1952) won the first Pulitzer Prize given for a cartoon, for his political cartoon On the Road to Moscow. Published in August of 1921, the cartoon focused on the still relatively nebulous threat of Communism to the peoples of the world by picturing Death beating
On this day, May 20, 1916, the weekly magazine, The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first Norman Rockwell cover illustration, Boy with the Baby Carriage.
On this day, May 19, 1893, illustrator Harold von Schmidt was born in Alameda, California. He studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts and the San Francisco Art Institute, and after WWI with Harvey Dunn at the Grand Central School of Art in New York City. His work appeared in many popular magazines.