For a quarter of a century, pulp magazines were the most popular entertainment medium in America. Read by everyone from schoolchildren to businessmen, their contents ranged from hard-boiled detective yarns to sci-fi to syrupy love stories. Their sensational and often lurid cover illustrations were considered low-grade trash by the literary and artistic standards of their day, but time has a funny way of changing things. Now deemed Americana Pop Art, the original illustrations fetch thousands of dollars at auctions. Strange Days presents 32 full-color, framable examples of this gaudy but appealing genre. Included are works by some of its most renowned artists, including Virgil Finlay, Hannes Bok, Edd Cartier, Margaret Brundage, Jerome Rozen, Enoch Bolles, and Walter Baumhoffer. Presented in an oversized 11” x 15” format and printed on heavy stock, Strange Days is a must-have collection for any pulp or period art fan.
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Arnie Fenner and Cathy Fenner are the editors of US publications Frank Frazetta's Icon, Legacy, and Testament, among many others. They live in Overland Park, Kansas.
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Strange is a matter of taste,
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This review is from: Strange Days: Aliens, Adventurers, Devils, and Dames (Paperback)
First off - read the description carefully. This book contains 30 images of art and one page of text. The reproductions are very nice and the large format shows them off well.
The description states that these are frameable. I guess they are in the sense that any illustration you can cut or rip from a book is frameable, but there is no simple and neat way to do this. Know also that each page has an illustration front and back and basically, taking out one image will mess up the book a bit. The sample images given on Amazon are a pretty good cross-section. Whether you like the choices or not is going to be a matter of taste of course, but there are a good variety and you're sure to find a thing or two that you'll really like. This is an inexpensive indulgence for fans of Pulp art.
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