Alfred Mazure (Nijmegen, September 8, 1914 - London, 16 February 1974) was a Dutch comic writer, artist and adventurer. Mazure is known for publishing the comics series about private detective Dick Bos.

Mazure was born in Nijmegen. Having stopped with high school, the outside worl pulled Mazure in the early 30s. He traveled with some friends to ( Read more... )

Arthur Leslie Ross, Jr. was born December 4, 1910 in West Orange, New Jersey. His father was also named Arthur Leslie Ross, of Scottish ancestry, and was a designer at a rug mill in Amsterdam, NY. His mother was J. Margaret Hoffman, of German ancestry. He had an older brother, Warren. His family called him "Let" and his friends called him "Joe." ( Read more... )

Norman Blaine Saunders (January 1, 1907- March 7, 1989) was a prolific commercial artist who produced paintings for pulp magazines, paperbacks, men's adventure magazines, comic books and trading cards. On occasion, he signed his work with his middle name, Blaine.


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Denis McLoughlin (April 15, 1918-April 22, 2002) was a well-known British illustrator.

After a career that touched eight decades, British illustrator Denis McLoughlin gained a degree of long overdue recognition in the late-1990s for his hard-boiled detective illustrations that graced book covers produced primarily for the London publishing house of ( Read more... )

Leo Manso was an abstract painter and collagist, and he at 78 years old his home in Manhattan. He kept a home also in Provincetown, Mass.

Mr. Manso was widely regarded as a leading influence on the art of collage. Robert Motherwell called him "one of collage's masters." Dedicating an exhibition of Mr. Manso's works in Provincetown in March 1991, Mr ( Read more... )

Robert A. Maguire (August 3, 1921 - February 26, 2005), or R. A. Maguire, was a twentieth century American illustrator and fine artist. Known primarily for his crime noir paperback cover art, he has produced artwork for over 600 covers since 1950. Maguire is a Member Emeritus of The Society of Illustrators.

Robert Maguire began his education at ( Read more... )

"I'm trying to tell a story. I like people to look at one of my paintings and feel like they could step into the scene." --Ron Lesser
While growing up, Ron Lesser was recognized for his extraordinary artistic potential. Following his graduation from New York's High School of Music and Art, he studied at the prestigious Pratt Institute of Art and Art ( Read more... )

Mitchell Hooks born Detroit, Michigan on 2 April 1923 is an American artist and illustrator renowned for his artwork for paperback books and magazines (The Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, Cosmopolitan, Redbook).

Hooks painted paperback covers for Avon, Bantam, Dell Books and Fawcett Publications and others. He illustrated romance novels, science ( Read more... )

Born in New York in 1907, Robert Jonas attended the Fawcett art school in New Jersey and New York University. Influenced by artist William de Kooning and other members of the "Abstract-Expressionist" movement, he went to work for Penguin, and remained there even after the departure of Ian Ballantine and several illustrators who left to found Bantam ( Read more... )

Reginald Heade was born Reginald Cyril Webb, 1901 in London and died in 1957.

Reg Heade only produced a few covers for the Thriller Comics Library but they were of quite exceptional quality. He is, of course, noted for his 'girlie art' covers for the Hank Janson series of paperback "hard-boiled" thrillers for the author/publisher, Stephen Frances, ( Read more... )