Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. I'm still not at the halfway mark in terms of those still to feature so providing I don't fall off my perch in the foreseeable future there's a way to go yet.
Your channel appeared on my thread today and I am so grateful. For all the dross that shows up....here is a beautiful gem. This is a dream channel for me...and clearly to others. I subscribed today - and look forward to working through your back catalogue while watching for future essays. All the Best to You -
i have no idea how i came across this channel but im so glad i did, its so informative and wholesome, thank you so much Mr. Beard i treasure this content
Hello again and thanks again for your continued support. What I don't understand is how I'd managed to be unaware of Frank Adams until now. Just my kind of thing.
Every chapter of these master-work videos contains depth and breadth, but perhaps none more so than in this episode. The topics, styles and media were so wide ranging, but they surprised rather than shocked because the fabulous artistry of the illustrators was so evident in the images and in Pete's narrative. Yet another success Pete, well done!
hello and once more my thabks for your persistent and consistent positive reviews of the channel. I do like to think there's a long way to go before I'll be scraping the bottom of the barrel.
I miraculously found your channel on the first day of a week off my day job, a week I'd set aside to catch up with artwork commissions. Your videos have been accompanying me the last few days as I've worked and I couldn't have imagined a more perfect and inspiring companion. Thank you so much for all the effort you've put into your content, it really is incredible work and I'm delighted to have found you and all the wonderful artists you've found for us!
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of the channel. It's always a pleasure to acquire a new viewer and particularly one who has subscribed. I hope you continue to get something out of the videos.
Hello and my thanks for your appreciation of the channel. Such comments keep me motivated. A book would be nice but I think it's unlikely - maybe an e-book some day...
Hello and my thanks for your favourable response to the channel. Bringing these talented people to the attention of viewers who might not know about them gives me great pleasure.
Almost two at once. You are spoiling us. More new treats and treasures. Frank Adams looks so familiar from any number of books I might have owned as a smallish child in and around 1960 though I couldn't say for sure whether he was involved in any or none. De Soto seems archetypally 'True Crime' with a touch of Weird Tales and Eerie Tales (which was my thing by 1964ish). Thanks so much yet again. Lovely stuff :-)
Hi again and Frank Adams came as a real surprise to me. How did I manage to remain ignorant of his charming work for so long? No idea. Thanks for your continued support.
Hello and I absolutely agree about the talent and distinctive approach of Dave McKean. But like many others I've decided to leave the contemporary illustration landscape pretty much to others. As it is, I'll be lucky to live long enough to finish the series with those already on my to-do list, and that's limiting them to those who were born before 1910.
Wonderful, as always, with some added nostalgia for me. I recall many of the Frank Adams pieces from my childhood and may still have some of those books. Thanks for this installment Pete!
Hello and thanks for the comment. I can honestly say that I had never heard of Adams before making the video. Not sure how that's possible but life is full of mysteries.
Once again! You WOWED me! Hit me across the head with a Dutch Vaudeviilian's sewn leather BLADDER! Im Dazed by your fantastic research, editing and bravura presentation. 😳 WOW! Congratulations good professor. Respectfully yours Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA etats unis
Hello again and thanks. In truth it's not the research that takes the time - it's trying to make sense of the written and visual material and editing them together that's the bulk of the work. A bit like a jigsaw puzzle with bits missing. Either way your comment is greatly appreciated.
@@petebeard You do it well. It always seems logical. You know what? They are always fun to watch and everyones learns things. I hope you will find enough material to keep this going for a long time. And I always end my comments with a big thank you for all your work and time.
#63 Thought that I might have to double up.on my blood pressure meds after watching Franz Von Bayros' titillating illustrations but you followed them with more calming artists. Frank Adams' Mr. Frog and Joyce Dennys' humorous pics brought the BP down. You almost cranked it back up with Rafael DeSoto's more serious but risque pulp magazine covers. I'm too old for cold showers... JJS
I'm starting to worry that some of my content is rather over-stimulating for older male viewers. Actually Von Batros was a grade A pervert and some of his stuff I couldn't even show with an 18s only warning.
Dear Mr Beard. Another great episode. I have looked up the lithography process on UA-cam and it is good to see that the process still continues. Your presentation avoids personal bias and prejudice, with regards to both artistic style or intended message of the art. That aloofness from the purpose of the art and to concentrate on the technique and visual expressiveness of the images is what makes this series outstanding. Thank you for your time and effort.
Hello again and what never ceases to amaze me is that people do still use this process even though there is no technical need to do so. Kind of refreshing in a digitally obsessesed world. And it's particularly pleasing that you refer to me leaving out personal prejudice. I really wanted to make a series about the diversity of illustrators' work rather than just things I like.
Wonderfully engrossing as always....this stuff should be shown in schools..thank you again for sharing these gems with us...best wishes from the wirral...E
Hello Eamonn, and thanks as ever for your glowing report of the video. I don't know about any schools but I do know there are a couple of universities using them as teaching aids (meaning of course the lazy tutors don't actually have to do what they are paid for, but I digress...)
Hi again and it's a pleasure to introduce these illustrators to viewers who were previously unaware of them. I'm still reeling from the realisation that I had never previously known anything about Frank Adams.
Awesome, Pete! The unknown and unheralded pulp fiction artists deserve a museum collection of their own. Until then, perhaps you could add a few segments :"Unsung heroes of Pulp Fiction Novel Covers 01 - 50".
Hello again and thanks for the various comments. Regarding film poster artists I'm not planning a video on that subject but I have already featured some in the unsung series and there are more in the pipeline too.
Hello and much as it worries me when viewers say they binge watch (you really can have too much of a good thing) I'm very grateful and flattered that you did. But now you'll have to consider the time between new instalments a form of de-tox.
Not surprisingly, I was attracted most by Raphael DeSoto's work: The clergy's loss was illustration's gain! There is no market really like that anymore, save perhaps for some paperback covers. I have a friend who does illustration work for romance novels mostly, and even there, the work is mostly digital manipulation of photos. As usual, ALL your choices were interesting both visually and historically.
Hello again, and although painterly realism isn't that high on my list of favourite styles I have to admit there's something - similar to old movie posters perhaps - that's really engaging about pulp art. As usual thanks for your continued appreciation.
Nice to see women illustrators like Joyce Dennys with their humorous takes on subjects….also learning the “technical” term “spot colour” ..seen it many times but not aware of the meaning
Hello again and thanks again. I never know what I should be explaining or not as the case may be when it comes to technical terms, especially to do with print processes. I don't want viewers to be scratching their heads but equally I don't want to come across as condescending. A tricky balance.
@@lindaking9222 Hi again, and as far as I can tell (and in my own experience unfortunately) it's very rare that the illustrator has any say in what colour or colours are used and even where they might be placed. If the illustrator does get any say in the matter the results are invariably more visually pleasing. Just one of many annoyances inflicted on us by publishers.
Frank Adams was the illustrator of a small nursery rhyme book used by my mother to entertain me at bedtime. Published by Blackie & Son probably in wartime it's small format and monochrome plates belie the personal impact the uncredited artist had on my developing psyche.
Hi Pete... I see you saved the best for last, Desoto's realism ranks pretty close to Rockwells using the same medium. I really enjoy that style of work. Hope all is well on your side of the pond.
Hello John and I'm glad you enjoyed De Soto in particular. There are several more pulp and painterly artists (American of course) coming in the next few instalments.
@@petebeard Wow! - that would be great! - I always admired the quality of most pulp fiction novel/novella covers, and am curious to how these artists worked - whether they just painted it as they were instructed by the publishing house book/graphic editors, or they read the stories first, and then interpreted it on their own. Or it was just a rushed deadline to crown the rapid output of the publishing houses...
I have a copy of Simple Simon illustrated by Frank Adams that I found at a used bookstore here in Tokyo. It's nice to know a little more about the artist. The book comes with a slipcase that has both English and Japanese Title and publishing information, but no publication date.
Great again Pete!! You did it! I'm working till next wednesday, I must comment your last two videos, let me be in "vacation mood" and I'll try - no always succed - to write some sentences with critical opinions.
Hi again, and the echoes of stylistic and themaric influence do seem to ricochet about a bit, don't they? One of the most interesting aspects of illustration I think.
Thanks for another very enjoyable episode. Rafael Desoto struck me as particularly talented. Although I hope you won't be running out of illustrators to biograph any time soon, I wonder if you've ever considered a genre-based episode. Best sci-fi illustrators, say. That's something I'd love to see.
Hello and many thanks. I like to think there's something for everybody in these videos. And the history of science fiction illustration has been on my 'to do' list for a long time now, as well as a large slce of the same in a video about pulp illustration I'm currently working on. I will get there eventually but the list keeps getting longer...
@@petebeard Great! I'll look forward to it. In this last video, I also liked how you panned through a book at 9:04. It gave a sense of context and a bygone age with a very different publishing industry.
Hello. I hope you get some feedback about Frank Adams. There must surely be living relatives somewhere! His humour is enjoyable but I loved the humour and technique of Joyce Dennis. Von Bayros I had encountered in research. It took me into strange places at times! There is great benefit from the higher definition.
Hello and yes it seems criminlal that adams should be so poorly remembered. And regarding Von Bayros I was shocked by some of the images I discovered in my research, and had I included them in the video I would have got taken down I'm sure. Which would be ironic as those very illustrations feature on a google image search.
Hello and thanks alot for the supportive comment. Regarding Russian illustrators Vladimir Lebedev, Feodor Rojankovsky, Viktor Deni, Ivan Bilibin, Erté have already featured in other instalments. On the way are Nathalie Parain, Vladimir Suteev, Vesvelode Nicouline (Ukrainian). But if you know of any others who were born between 1850 and 1910 (I limit myself to that period) I'd be very pleased to hear about them. In the uk information is very thin regarding Russia.
Thank you Pete! As informative and well researched as always. Frank Adams' works are very interesting. Is there an index of artists you featured in each episode so one can easily find what he/she needs? Recently I had a couple of drinks with fellow graphic designer and it took a lot of time to find your Raymond Savignac and Jean Carlu videos I wanted to show her. [well, we probably had more than a couple of drinks...]
Hello to you and many thanks again for your dedication to the channel. I'm sorry to say there is no overall index - although it was always my plan to produce when when/if I ever completed the series. But that was when I thought there might be a dozen or so videos and things have got rather out of hand since then. The quickest way to find a particular video is to go to the channel home page and select 'videos'. That brings up everything I've made and when you select a video the description box says who features. I know that's not a great solution but for now it's the best I've got. I just had an idea that seems to work. If you are on youtube search fro the name of the illustrator you want to find. With luck it will bring up the video (among others featuring that person.)
Can you tell us anything about Béla Bohak, a portrait artist, likely Hungarian, who sold works for a few francs on the boardwalk in La Panne, Belgium around the mid 30's? I've only seen one of his works, but it's the finest, purest "caricature" I've yet to see.
Hello, and I'm sorry to say I can tell you absolutely nothing about this illustrator. Not only had I never heard of him but a search of the internet reveals neither biography nor examples of work. I think he'll have to be considered one of the entirely forgotten figures.
Hello again and yes I would - although I'm not sure how I'd access it unless you have a link to it. It's nothing personal, believe me, but I keep my personal e-mail to myself because of the unhinged who inhabit the web, and I couldn't give you my details without giving to them also. But if you have a way...
@@petebeard The only way I see I could post a picture which you'd have access to is via The Sketchup community forum, which I belong to, and that hides its member's respective identities. We could communicate directly through its private messaging function, outside of the forum itself. It can display all kinds of attachment file types. I'm not sure if you'll be able to sign up for the forum, though.
Hello again and on mature reflection it's probably not worth going to the trouble, although it's kind of you to offer. It occurs to me that even if you posted it and I could access it the best result would be that there were two of us admiring a particular image, as it seems he has otherwise slipped through the cracks. I'll continue to search a bit deeper online and see if there's anything at all about him, but I suspect the worst.
In perhaps 10 years digital progress will enable at least wealthy amateurs with more than the usual amount of time to make videos in the styles of vonBayros and De Soto. I'd like to think there will still be children's books but perhaps the more pressing question is, will there still be children?
Hello again. Interesting points but regarding children unless we wipe ourselves off the face of the planet that's a market that's guaranteed to endure, Probably screenbooks though...
Hello again and many thanks for the link to Simms Campbell. As it happens he has already featured in the series - instalment 20 - and his work was a revelation to me. Nevertheless I thank you for going to the trouble of alerting me and if there are any others that you come across I'll be glad to hear about them.
@@petebeard I thought so but I wasn't sure! Thanks! (I sent a poem off to "The New Yorker" and something called "The Chicagoan" popped up in my feed. Short-lived, 1930s Chicago counterpart to "The New Yorker," and it mentioned Campbell as one of their artists.)
Would it be possible to separate the erotic illustration from the children’s illustration? I would be more comfortable sharing these. Just a thought. Thanks for your work!
Hello and thanks for the comment. I'm sorry but once they are made they are made and can't be separated out. And I'm sorry you're uncomfortable with the erotic images but my mission is to be as diverse as possible and to include what some find the more distasteful and sometimes downright offensive aspects of illustration. In my defence there aren't that many videos that include adult material, and if it's any help there's a video titled 'once upon a time' devoted exclusively to children's book illustration.
never stop pete, never
Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. I'm still not at the halfway mark in terms of those still to feature so providing I don't fall off my perch in the foreseeable future there's a way to go yet.
Your channel appeared on my thread today and I am so grateful. For all the dross that shows up....here is a beautiful gem. This is a dream channel for me...and clearly to others. I subscribed today - and look forward to working through your back catalogue while watching for future essays.
All the Best to You -
The Encyclopedia of Art Illustrators by Mr.Pete Beard is a Master Piece. Museum grade effort..
Hello and that's high praise indeed. It really gives me a boost when people bother to tell me they enjoy the content. Thanks.
i have no idea how i came across this channel but im so glad i did, its so informative and wholesome, thank you so much Mr. Beard
i treasure this content
Hello and thanks a lot for your positive comment about the channel and its content. It means a lot to me that viewers get something out of it.
Wow! Another quartet of fantastic artists, the first three I'd not seen before!! 👏👏👏
Hello again and thanks again for your continued support. What I don't understand is how I'd managed to be unaware of Frank Adams until now. Just my kind of thing.
Thank you so much for this series, an absolute gem.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciative comment. Always good to know viewers appreciate the content.
Last time I was this early Austria-Hungary was still a country. Thank you Pete, seeing a new video by you is always a treat.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciative comment.
Every chapter of these master-work videos contains depth and breadth, but perhaps none more so than in this episode. The topics, styles and media were so wide ranging, but they surprised rather than shocked because the fabulous artistry of the illustrators was so evident in the images and in Pete's narrative. Yet another success Pete, well done!
hello and once more my thabks for your persistent and consistent positive reviews of the channel. I do like to think there's a long way to go before I'll be scraping the bottom of the barrel.
I miraculously found your channel on the first day of a week off my day job, a week I'd set aside to catch up with artwork commissions. Your videos have been accompanying me the last few days as I've worked and I couldn't have imagined a more perfect and inspiring companion. Thank you so much for all the effort you've put into your content, it really is incredible work and I'm delighted to have found you and all the wonderful artists you've found for us!
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of the channel. It's always a pleasure to acquire a new viewer and particularly one who has subscribed. I hope you continue to get something out of the videos.
You are doing the world a wonderful service with your catalogue. Much appreciation. Perhaps a book one day?
Hello and my thanks for your appreciation of the channel. Such comments keep me motivated. A book would be nice but I think it's unlikely - maybe an e-book some day...
Sir I think you’re assembling the best course on illustration history. I Enjoy the work. That you.
Hello and my thanks for your favourable response to the channel. Bringing these talented people to the attention of viewers who might not know about them gives me great pleasure.
OMG! This channel is amazing! Keep up the beautiful work!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation and subscription. I hope you continue to find illustrators of interest on the channel.
I really enjoyed the pulp art in this one, thanks Pete
You're welcome and more similar are on the way...
Almost two at once. You are spoiling us.
More new treats and treasures. Frank Adams looks so familiar from any number of books I might have owned as a smallish child in and around 1960 though I couldn't say for sure whether he was involved in any or none.
De Soto seems archetypally 'True Crime' with a touch of Weird Tales and Eerie Tales (which was my thing by 1964ish).
Thanks so much yet again. Lovely stuff :-)
Hi again and Frank Adams came as a real surprise to me. How did I manage to remain ignorant of his charming work for so long? No idea. Thanks for your continued support.
Amazing how many illustrators there are. Thank you.
Hello and thanks a lot for watching. I'm still not half way through my bucket list.
Hello and I absolutely agree about the talent and distinctive approach of Dave McKean. But like many others I've decided to leave the contemporary illustration landscape pretty much to others. As it is, I'll be lucky to live long enough to finish the series with those already on my to-do list, and that's limiting them to those who were born before 1910.
Wonderful, as always, with some added nostalgia for me. I recall many of the Frank Adams pieces from my childhood and may still have some of those books. Thanks for this installment Pete!
Hello and thanks for the comment. I can honestly say that I had never heard of Adams before making the video. Not sure how that's possible but life is full of mysteries.
Another excellent video and selection of illustrators.
Hello and thanks for that. I like to think the standard of illustrators shown remains as high as ever.
Once again! You WOWED me! Hit me across the head with a Dutch Vaudeviilian's sewn leather BLADDER! Im Dazed by your fantastic research, editing and bravura presentation. 😳 WOW! Congratulations good professor. Respectfully yours Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA etats unis
Hello Greg. I hope you are well and you are thriving. Thanks as ever for the favourable - and of course colourful - comment.
you're one of my favourite channels on youtube, thank you so much for your videos:)
Hello and thanks a lot for your positive comment about the channel. It means a lot to me.
Another beautiful addition to your collection. The research for these segments must be immense! Thank for all you time and effort.
Hello again and thanks. In truth it's not the research that takes the time - it's trying to make sense of the written and visual material and editing them together that's the bulk of the work. A bit like a jigsaw puzzle with bits missing. Either way your comment is greatly appreciated.
@@petebeard You do it well. It always seems logical. You know what? They are always fun to watch and everyones learns things. I hope you will find enough material to keep this going for a long time. And I always end my comments with a big thank you for all your work and time.
Great work Pete!
Hi and thanks very much - it's appreciated.
#63
Thought that I might have to double up.on my blood pressure meds after watching Franz Von Bayros' titillating illustrations but you followed them with more calming artists. Frank Adams' Mr. Frog and Joyce Dennys' humorous pics brought the BP down. You almost cranked it back up with Rafael DeSoto's more serious but risque pulp magazine covers. I'm too old for cold showers... JJS
I'm starting to worry that some of my content is rather over-stimulating for older male viewers. Actually Von Batros was a grade A pervert and some of his stuff I couldn't even show with an 18s only warning.
Another wonderful video!! Thank you!!!
Hi again and thanks a lot for continuing to reassure me I'm doing something right - for once.
@@petebeard You are! (I know the feeling, don't knock yourself!)
Always 😊 delightful! Thank you!
Hi and thanks again!
Marvelous - thank you ~ I especially enjoyed your segment on DeSoto and his pulp fiction delectably lurid illustration ~
Hello and thanks again. Lurid - what a marvellously descriptive word.
Great episode! 🤗
Hello and thanks very much for your comment.
Dear Mr Beard. Another great episode.
I have looked up the lithography process on UA-cam and it is good to see that the process still continues.
Your presentation avoids personal bias and prejudice, with regards to both artistic style or intended message of the art. That aloofness from the purpose of the art and to concentrate on the technique and visual expressiveness of the images is what makes this series outstanding. Thank you for your time and effort.
Hello again and what never ceases to amaze me is that people do still use this process even though there is no technical need to do so. Kind of refreshing in a digitally obsessesed world. And it's particularly pleasing that you refer to me leaving out personal prejudice. I really wanted to make a series about the diversity of illustrators' work rather than just things I like.
Wonderfully engrossing as always....this stuff should be shown in schools..thank you again for sharing these gems with us...best wishes from the wirral...E
Hello Eamonn, and thanks as ever for your glowing report of the video. I don't know about any schools but I do know there are a couple of universities using them as teaching aids (meaning of course the lazy tutors don't actually have to do what they are paid for, but I digress...)
@@petebeard report card has an A+ most definitely...keep up the great work...!....E
Another gem, thank you.
Hi Jeff and as usual my gratitude for your support.
Excellent addition, thank you Pete.
the notification alert is working!
Hi again and thanks very much. I like to think there's no drop in quality - yet...
What a fantastic channel, thank you for sharing it!
Hello and thank you for your comment. The appreciation of viewers is confirmation I'm not wasting my time.
All illustrators unknown to me except I seem to have heard of the Austro-Hungarian, keep up the good work. ALWAYS FASCINATING!
Hi again and it's a pleasure to introduce these illustrators to viewers who were previously unaware of them. I'm still reeling from the realisation that I had never previously known anything about Frank Adams.
Your dedication is greatly appreciated
Awesome, Pete!
The unknown and unheralded pulp fiction artists deserve a museum collection of their own. Until then, perhaps you could add a few segments :"Unsung heroes of Pulp Fiction Novel Covers 01 - 50".
Hello again and thanks for the various comments. Regarding film poster artists I'm not planning a video on that subject but I have already featured some in the unsung series and there are more in the pipeline too.
I discovered your channel, binge-watched all the unsung heroes videos and am so glad to see this new one!
Hello and much as it worries me when viewers say they binge watch (you really can have too much of a good thing) I'm very grateful and flattered that you did. But now you'll have to consider the time between new instalments a form of de-tox.
Bravo, Pedro! Again and again!
Hello again and thanks for the comment and sticking with the channel.
I love those paintings by Frank Adams. It's too bad any of his books are far out om my reach. Thanks for posting.
Hi again and Adams is yet another I had previousy not known about. Great work.
Not surprisingly, I was attracted most by Raphael DeSoto's work: The clergy's loss was illustration's gain! There is no market really like that anymore, save perhaps for some paperback covers. I have a friend who does illustration work for romance novels mostly, and even there, the work is mostly digital manipulation of photos. As usual, ALL your choices were interesting both visually and historically.
Hello again, and although painterly realism isn't that high on my list of favourite styles I have to admit there's something - similar to old movie posters perhaps - that's really engaging about pulp art. As usual thanks for your continued appreciation.
@@petebeard Have you done, or are planning to do some segments on the Film Posters' artists?
An other amazing video! Thank you so much
Hello and my thanks to you for your appreciation of the channel. It means a lot.
Thoroughly enjoyable, thank you
Hello and many thanks for your positive comment. I find such feedback remarkably encouraging.
Excelente trabajo de investigación, muy buen material. Se ganó un suscriptor. Un abrazo desde Argentina.
Hola y muchas gracias por su apreciación de los videos en mi canal. Y un abrazo de la fría y húmeda Inglaterra.
Nice to see women illustrators like Joyce Dennys with their humorous takes on subjects….also learning the “technical” term “spot colour” ..seen it many times but not aware of the meaning
Hello again and thanks again. I never know what I should be explaining or not as the case may be when it comes to technical terms, especially to do with print processes. I don't want viewers to be scratching their heads but equally I don't want to come across as condescending. A tricky balance.
@@petebeard for sure….yes,& it is good to know that it was done in the printing but did the illustrator advise on where the colour would go
@@lindaking9222 Hi again, and as far as I can tell (and in my own experience unfortunately) it's very rare that the illustrator has any say in what colour or colours are used and even where they might be placed. If the illustrator does get any say in the matter the results are invariably more visually pleasing. Just one of many annoyances inflicted on us by publishers.
@@petebeard thanks for the insight…seems like the artist/illustrator should have control over the colour
Thanks again for awesome content!!
And thanks to you for your appreciation - it matters to me.
@@petebeard cheers
These videos are comfy
Hello and that's a nice thing to say.
you do amazing work! thank you so much. Always wishing you the best, I hope you and your loved ones are well c:
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel, and your good wishes. And I hope the same for you.
yo what a most excellent series
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation and subscription.
Frank Adams was the illustrator of a small nursery rhyme book used by my mother to entertain me at bedtime. Published by Blackie & Son probably in wartime it's small format and monochrome plates belie the personal impact the uncredited artist had on my developing psyche.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. It's always a pleasure to hear how some of these illustrators made an impression.
Hi Pete... I see you saved the best for last, Desoto's realism ranks pretty close to Rockwells using the same medium. I really enjoy that style of work. Hope all is well on your side of the pond.
Hello John and I'm glad you enjoyed De Soto in particular. There are several more pulp and painterly artists (American of course) coming in the next few instalments.
@@petebeard Wow! - that would be great! - I always admired the quality of most pulp fiction novel/novella covers, and am curious to how these artists worked - whether they just painted it as they were instructed by the publishing house book/graphic editors, or they read the stories first, and then interpreted it on their own. Or it was just a rushed deadline to crown the rapid output of the publishing houses...
I have a copy of Simple Simon illustrated by Frank Adams that I found at a used bookstore here in Tokyo. It's nice to know a little more about the artist. The book comes with a slipcase that has both English and Japanese Title and publishing information, but no publication date.
Hello and I'm sorry it has to be only a little more. How on earth does somebody that popular and talented get so forgotten?
Great again Pete!! You did it! I'm working till next wednesday, I must comment your last two videos, let me be in "vacation mood" and I'll try - no always succed - to write some sentences with critical opinions.
Hello Gabriel and I look forward to your comments - whenever you make them is fine with me.
the one of ma fave channel
Hello and thanks a lot for the comment.
Love
Thanks Pete.
My pleasure as ever.
top quality stuff!
Hello again and thanks a lot.
The works at 3:01 seem very familiar. I believe they may have influenced some modern illustrators I've come across.
Hi again, and the echoes of stylistic and themaric influence do seem to ricochet about a bit, don't they? One of the most interesting aspects of illustration I think.
Excelente!
My thanks for your comment.
Thanks for another very enjoyable episode. Rafael Desoto struck me as particularly talented. Although I hope you won't be running out of illustrators to biograph any time soon, I wonder if you've ever considered a genre-based episode. Best sci-fi illustrators, say. That's something I'd love to see.
Hello and many thanks. I like to think there's something for everybody in these videos. And the history of science fiction illustration has been on my 'to do' list for a long time now, as well as a large slce of the same in a video about pulp illustration I'm currently working on. I will get there eventually but the list keeps getting longer...
@@petebeard Great! I'll look forward to it. In this last video, I also liked how you panned through a book at 9:04. It gave a sense of context and a bygone age with a very different publishing industry.
Hello. I hope you get some feedback about Frank Adams. There must surely be living relatives somewhere! His humour is enjoyable but I loved the humour and technique of Joyce Dennis. Von Bayros I had encountered in research. It took me into strange places at times! There is great benefit from the higher definition.
Hello and yes it seems criminlal that adams should be so poorly remembered. And regarding Von Bayros I was shocked by some of the images I discovered in my research, and had I included them in the video I would have got taken down I'm sure. Which would be ironic as those very illustrations feature on a google image search.
12:33 a perspective of the gun is distorted.
Amazing as ALWAYS!💐😊 Can you put Russian illustrators as well?they have a very interesting styles in art .
Hello and thanks alot for the supportive comment. Regarding Russian illustrators Vladimir Lebedev, Feodor Rojankovsky, Viktor Deni, Ivan Bilibin, Erté have already featured in other instalments.
On the way are Nathalie Parain, Vladimir Suteev, Vesvelode Nicouline (Ukrainian). But if you know of any others who were born between 1850 and 1910 (I limit myself to that period) I'd be very pleased to hear about them. In the uk information is very thin regarding Russia.
👀🎬👍👍👍👍👍 *Joyce Dennys* living to age 98
Thank you Pete! As informative and well researched as always. Frank Adams' works are very interesting.
Is there an index of artists you featured in each episode so one can easily find what he/she needs? Recently I had a couple of drinks with fellow graphic designer and it took a lot of time to find your Raymond Savignac and Jean Carlu videos I wanted to show her. [well, we probably had more than a couple of drinks...]
Hello to you and many thanks again for your dedication to the channel. I'm sorry to say there is no overall index - although it was always my plan to produce when when/if I ever completed the series. But that was when I thought there might be a dozen or so videos and things have got rather out of hand since then. The quickest way to find a particular video is to go to the channel home page and select 'videos'. That brings up everything I've made and when you select a video the description box says who features. I know that's not a great solution but for now it's the best I've got. I just had an idea that seems to work. If you are on youtube search fro the name of the illustrator you want to find. With luck it will bring up the video (among others featuring that person.)
Can you tell us anything about Béla Bohak, a portrait artist, likely Hungarian, who sold works for a few francs on the boardwalk in La Panne, Belgium around the mid 30's? I've only seen one of his works, but it's the finest, purest "caricature" I've yet to see.
Hello, and I'm sorry to say I can tell you absolutely nothing about this illustrator. Not only had I never heard of him but a search of the internet reveals neither biography nor examples of work. I think he'll have to be considered one of the entirely forgotten figures.
@@petebeard Would you like to see the portrait that piqued my interest?
Hello again and yes I would - although I'm not sure how I'd access it unless you have a link to it. It's nothing personal, believe me, but I keep my personal e-mail to myself because of the unhinged who inhabit the web, and I couldn't give you my details without giving to them also. But if you have a way...
@@petebeard The only way I see I could post a picture which you'd have access to is via The Sketchup community forum, which I belong to, and that hides its member's respective identities. We could communicate directly through its private messaging function, outside of the forum itself. It can display all kinds of attachment file types. I'm not sure if you'll be able to sign up for the forum, though.
Hello again and on mature reflection it's probably not worth going to the trouble, although it's kind of you to offer. It occurs to me that even if you posted it and I could access it the best result would be that there were two of us admiring a particular image, as it seems he has otherwise slipped through the cracks. I'll continue to search a bit deeper online and see if there's anything at all about him, but I suspect the worst.
In perhaps 10 years digital progress will enable at least wealthy amateurs with more than the usual amount of time to make videos in the styles of vonBayros and De Soto. I'd like to think there will still be children's books but perhaps the more pressing question is, will there still be children?
Hello again. Interesting points but regarding children unless we wipe ourselves off the face of the planet that's a market that's guaranteed to endure, Probably screenbooks though...
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Hello and thanks a lot.
The lady Joyce Dennys was shaping up to be my favorite until that De Soto Pulp come along and stole the cup.
I like to think it's an embarrassment of riches, or at least someting for everyone.
Didn't know if you had done E. Simms Campbell in this series. If so I just found out about him. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Simms_Campbell
Hello again and many thanks for the link to Simms Campbell. As it happens he has already featured in the series - instalment 20 - and his work was a revelation to me. Nevertheless I thank you for going to the trouble of alerting me and if there are any others that you come across I'll be glad to hear about them.
@@petebeard I thought so but I wasn't sure! Thanks! (I sent a poem off to "The New Yorker" and something called "The Chicagoan" popped up in my feed. Short-lived, 1930s Chicago counterpart to "The New Yorker," and it mentioned Campbell as one of their artists.)
Would it be possible to separate the erotic illustration from the children’s illustration? I would be more comfortable sharing these. Just a thought. Thanks for your work!
Hello and thanks for the comment. I'm sorry but once they are made they are made and can't be separated out. And I'm sorry you're uncomfortable with the erotic images but my mission is to be as diverse as possible and to include what some find the more distasteful and sometimes downright offensive aspects of illustration. In my defence there aren't that many videos that include adult material, and if it's any help there's a video titled 'once upon a time' devoted exclusively to children's book illustration.