Bama Gogos (sounds Spanish, doesn't it?)

[dochermes]

Idly meandering through the untold zillions of images on the Ether, I saw a portrait of dear old Frankie as done by James Bama. And my poor old tired brain cells sparked and remenmbered a similar image.. but painted by Basil Gogos.

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[zathras_ix]

Bama did several portraits of Frankenstein for Aurora and other licensees of the Universal Studios monsters.

[dochermes]

And of course I had those Aurora monster model kits as a preteen. Hot summer afternoons in my attic room trying to assemble the kits as the paint and ..the glue.. fumes...whoaaaa.

Anyway, I think I actually prefer Gogos this time, which surprises me. He gives the Monster more personality and more of a sense of being lifelike. Bama's Frankie is more static and iconic.

It's funny how that one photo of Karloff in any early test make-up keeps popping up in art. What looks like a spike under the skin of that ledge of a forehead. There it is in Bama's version for some reason.

[docsavage181]

B * G worked off the same publicity still, I imagine... interesting!

Bebopping with the tags today and ...

[pronker]

Strange came honestly by his seamed face, being in zillions of B-westerns from the thirties onward, after ranching and even being part of a c/w group. I adored him as Sam on Gunsmoke.