EXTRACTS: Pirates! Illustrators Special Edition © 2020 The Book Palace (128 PAGES in Full edition)

126 WalterM. Baumhofer (1904-1987). Born inBrooklyn fromparents who had immigrated fromGermany. Notable for the illustrations he did for the pulp magazines by Street & Smith and other publishers. He was one of the few artists who successfully bounced from the pulps to the slicks. He did the first Doc Savage covers andworked for various other pulpmagazines. For the slickmagazines he beganwith Liberty and then went on to American Weekly , Cosmopolitan , Woman’s Home Companion , Country Gentleman , This Week , Redbook , AmericanMagazine , Collier’s , Esquire , etc. Tom Beecham (1926-2000). Known for his scenes of wildlife and men struggling and fighting with wild animals. Beecham contrib‐ uted illustrations to numerous periodicals including Amazing Stories , Fantastic , Fantastic Adventures , Field and Stream , If , Fury , National Geographic , Outdoor Life , Reader's Digest , and Thrilling Science Fiction . Beechamalso illustrated book covers for science-fic‐ tion and adventure texts like Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (Pyramid, 1960) and H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quater‐ main (Ballantine, ca. 1963) and King Solomon'sMines (Ballantine, ca. 1963). During the 1970s, Beecham focused on painting wildlife scenes of the westernUnited States. He was amember of the Society of AmericanHistorical Artists and the Society of Animal Artists. ReedCrandall (1917-1982). Comic book artist known for his work on Quality’s Blackhawk series. Also worked on the pirate strip ‘Captain Daring’ published in Quality’s Buccaneers series. Later worked for EC comics being the principal artist for Piracy . In the early ’60s worked on Gold Key titles such as Twilight Zone and on Gilberton’s Classics Illustrated , and later contributed for Warren’s black and white horror magazines, Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella . Following a stroke in 1974, he had to stop his drawing career. Henry Cruse Murphy (1886-1931). Belonging to one of Brooklyn’s oldest families,Murphy struggled to become a newspaper cartoonist during his teens. In the 1920s he worked for various pulpmagazines such as Ace-HighMagazine, Action Stories, Adventure, Air Stories, All Fiction, Fight Stories, Frontier Stories, Lariat, North West Stories, Sea Stories, Short Stories, Soldier Stories, Star Magazine, The Popular, and WestWeekly. He illustrated the 1924 “official” sequel to ‘Treasure Island’, ‘Porto BelloGold’, written by Arthur D. Howden Smith. Douglass Crockwell (1904-1968). Commercial artist and experi‐ mental filmmaker. He initially wanted to create low-cost animation techniques. His most famous illustrations and advertisements appeared in the Saturday Evening Post . He did the poster for the movie ‘TheYearling’ (1946), andworked for federally commissioned murals between 1934 to 1944. Will Eisner (1917-2005). One of the earliest cartoonists to work in comic books. He created the pirate newspaper strip ‘Hawks of the Seas’ which later became ‘The Hawk’ in comic books. His best knowncreation is The Spirit , a seven-page comic series that appeared in newspapers every week. He coined the term “graphic novel” after work he created in the late ’70s beginningwith ‘AContract withGod and Other Tenement Stories’. The comics’ Eisner Award was estab‐ lished in his honour. Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930). Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Stephen James Ferris, a portrait painter and a devotee of Jean-Léon Gérôme (after whom he was named) and Mariano Fortuny. Ferris grew up around art, having been trained by his father and having two acclaimed painters, Edward Moran and ThomasMoran, as uncles. He would later be known for his series of 78 scenes fromAmerican history, entitled ‘The Pageant of a Nation’, the largest series of American historical paintings by a single artist. Anton Otto Fischer (1882-1962). German-born Fischer was orphaned at an early age, and at fifteen left his country for fear of being forced into the priesthood, and got aboard a ship leaving for America. Influenced byHoward Pyle, he began a career in commer‐ cial art working formany of themost popular Americanmagazines. In 1910 he began a long career with the Saturday Evening Post which lasted for forty-eight years. He illustrated such books as ‘Moby Dick’, ‘Treasure Island’ and ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’. Burne Hogarth (1911-1996). Best known for his work on the Sunday newspaper strip ‘Tarzan’, Hogarth began his cartooning careerdrawingCharlesDriscoll’s pirate adventure: ‘Pieces of Eight’. In 1945 he created his own strips Drago , an adventure series, and Miracle Jones , a humorous one. Both were abandoned a year later due to lackof success.He later formed anart school which is nowthe School of Visual Arts. Louis Rheade (1857-1926). Born in England, Rheade emigrated to America at twenty-four when offered a position as art director for a publishing firm in New York. In the 1890s he became a prominent poster artist, many of them appearing in the most popular magazines of the era. Between 1902 until his death, he worked on il‐ lustrations for classic books such as ‘RobinHood’, ‘The Swiss Family Robinson’, ‘RobinsonCrusoe’, ‘TheDeerslayer’, ‘Treasure Island’, ‘Kid‐ napped’ and ‘Heidi’. Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972). A pupil of Howard Pyle and also member of the Brandywine School artists. Extremely prolific, Schoonover did more than 2,500 paintings in every genre from westerns to proto-science fiction. Throughout the 1920s, his book il‐ lustration prospered, highlighted by covers for the Harper’s Chil‐ dren’s classics, notably ‘Kidnapped’, ‘Robinson Crusoe’, ‘Heidi’, ‘Hans Brinker’, and ‘The Swiss Family Robinson’. He also did covers for such pirate novels as ‘Blackbeard, Buccaneer’ and ‘Privateers of ’76’. In 1922 he also did the cover for a ‘Treasure Island’ version contain‐ ing Louis Rheade’s illustrations inside. Dave Stevens (1955-2008). Known for creating the comic series The Rocketeer featuring a Bettie Page-look alike, which later got him doing pin-up style ‘glamour art’ illustrations.