*see previous Edd Cartier post HERE
Showing posts with label Edd Cartier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edd Cartier. Show all posts
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
Edd Cartier (1914-2008)
Edd Cartier, famous for his illustrations to the Street& Smith Shadow pulps and comics, passed on Christmas day 2008. Here are some magnificent Cartier ink and drybrush illustrations from the 1940 magazine Unknown. Cartier was the prime illustrator of the Shadow and the fantasy works of L. Ron Hubbard.
Cartier began his career illustrating for Astounding and served in the US Army during WWII. He drew comics for the Shadow and Red Dragon titles from Street & Smith. He also contributed covers for the Gnome Press. In 1977 a hardcover collection of his works "Edd Cartier The Known and The Unknown" was published in a small press edition (wish I still had mine!)
The two pieces of original art at bottom are from Ebay and on sale (if you're a Daddy Warbucks) at the moment. They were originally produced for King Features newspaper serials.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Unknown
I used to collect any horror or fantasy anthology that carried stories from Unknown or Weird Tales. This August 1940 issue of Unknown I picked up for a sawbuck features not only great illustrations by Edd Cartier but the original publication of Theodore Sturgeon's "It." Sturgeon wrote a great favourite of mine called "Yesterday was Wednesday" which was about a man who wakes up while gnomes are changing the world's scenery for the next day. "It" was the original inspiration for The Heap, Swamp Thing and Man Thing. Another hero of mine is rockabilly heavyweight Sleepy LaBeef who played a swamp monster in the movie The Exotic Ones in the sixties.
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