My recent acquisition-a beautiful Polish movie poster created by Marian Stachurski for the Georgian film Na Naszym Podworku in 1957. 

When I acquired this poster, I didn't see the backside of the poster. Upon receiving it, I was totally surprised to see its backside. It seems even then, they were printing colour on the backside of the poster to block light, because I assume they were displayed with backlighting.

 

More A.C.2020

Here are a few more new pages from my visual essay series, A.C.2020. I originally created this series to express the anxiety and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over time, within the same series, I also began to address my other anxieties and visual observations.

Each visual essay consists of self-contained single-page stories created in greyish-blue tones to reflect the subject.

You can see more pages of this essay series here.

 

Modesty Blaise by Neville Colvin, Part 3.

In July this year, I posted about acquiring two consecutive daily comic of Modesty Blaise by Neville Colvin from 1984. 

I got lucky and managed to acquire the third one. I think that should satisfy my thirst for consecutive Modesty Blaise comics for a while.

Comic by Enrique Breccia

 My recent acquisition, a page from 'Los Dias Del Gitano', a comic by Enrique Breccia, published in Skorpio #30 in 1994.

Cover Illustration for The New York Times

The front page of the Science Times section of The New York Times features my illustration. The illustration is for the article titled "An Old Clash Heats Up Over Oppenheimer's Red Ties", written by William J. Broad and art directed by Rodrigo Honeywell.

You can see my other illustrations for The New York Times here.

 

One more "Flash Gordon" by Dan Barry

I just acquired this daily comic of Flash Gordon by Dan Barry from November 9th, 1965. It perfectly fits with the other two daily comics from the same story, which I acquired earlier. 

 

My latest acquisition, Bob Lubbers (as Bob Lewis) "Secret Agent Corrigan" daily comic strip from 1966. Secret Agent Phil Corrigan stars in this aviation-themed adventure alongside Miss Perkins. It was created in ink over graphite with Duotone chemical shading board.

This strip has a bonus: Bob often included rough pencil corrections or sketches on the back. In this case, it's interesting to see how he changed the airplane's direction, creating a more dramatic composition.

This isn't the first Bob Lubbers "Secret Agent" comic strip in my collection; I actually own quite a few. See here.

I also have his "Robin Malone" and "Tarzan" strips. See here.

 

I really appreciate his stylization and the balance between realism and cartoonish drawing. As my friend Zoran Djukanovic said, "He is very, very talented. There is such ease in his heart and his hand."