NEW AT PULP'S ART: AUGUST 17

Calling all enthusiasts of classic illustration you might want to note we've had some cracking new titles delivered this week.

FRED TARABA MASTERS OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION

HC 432pp Color, Black + White

The Illustrated Press

This much anticipated book by readers of Illustration magazine collects and enhances 41 articles Fred Taraba had published in the magazine Step by Step Graphics.

41 masters of conveying emotion, narrative, mood, pick the adjective of your choice, via illustration have their careers and technical approach considered by illustration historian and expert Fred Taraba.

Each of the illustrators featured is a genuine master but what makes this heavily illustrated book different is the absence of the more obvious choices like JC Leyendecker and Norman Rockwell but that's OK because we've books dedicated to these greats.

ILLUSTRATION # 34

SC 80pp Color, Black + White

The Illustrated Press

The extraordinarily talented Tom Lovell is given center stage in the latest issue of one of our favorite magazines.

After a long and successful career in illustration Tom, like may of his peers, headed west and painted fine art inspired by the indigenous tribes and the pioneers of the region.

The focus of this issue is his wonderful editorial illustrations which accompanied short stories in the many journals on US newsstands after WW II.

This issue has a touching tribute to the wonderful artist Jeffrey Catherine Jones whose life and career were an example of the importance of integrity to the true artist. 

ALEX TOTH SETTING THE STANDARD 

HC 416pp Color

Fantagraphics

As the title suggests comic artists didn't come better than Alex Toth, this book collects all his comic strip work from 1952 to 1954.

Both a wonderful slice of Americana because of Toth's ability to capture the essence of what he illustrated and some enjoyable comic stories from an age before troubled writers in need of treatment cropped up!