"He must have done something. They don't kill you for nothing." - Chicago Gangster Ted Newberry. Rubbed out January 7, 1933

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Ars gratia artis

One thing we all agree on here at the DGIS Institute (and by all I mean me, everyone else just nods their head for fear of being fired) is that pulp art is the cat's pajamas. A new intern suggested that I check out the work of Norman Saunders, so I did. Great stuff. Those of you artists out there probably already know him but for the rest of us, if you like pics of dames with guns (and a host of other cool stuff). Give him a Google. His son compiled his work into a nifty book I'll have to get. If you want to check it out yourself it's up there in the the book carousel.

2 comments:

John DuMond said...

If you like pulp art, you should check out the covers over at Hard Case Crime.

Patrick Downey said...

I'll check it out, thanks. (Hard Case Crime still owes me a couple hours of my life back for publishing the Colorado Kid by Stephen King)