The Illustrator's School

Sunday Additional Material day.

I have shared some selfmade scans of Stan Drake's illustration work for Bluebook in the early fifties, just before he started The Heart of Juliet Jones. Here are some more I picked from an online resource. Of course, some of the pages were double and should be seen that way. For the others, you can click the link.

Another frequent contributor to Blue Book was later Big Ben Bolt and Prince Valiant artist John Cullen Murphy. He started out as a sports illustrator, working mainly for Collier's but he turns up here as well.

It Is A Man's Work

Sunday Review Day.

Before Stan Drake was asked to do The Heart of Juliet JOnes, he worked mainly in advertising and as an illustrator. One of his regular clients was Blie Book magazine. I have shown some of his work there before, which you will see if you follow the link. You'll also find his work for the King Features soap opera serial in Pictorial Review, which I believe is what got him the Juliet Jones job. These are all from the September 1952 issue of Blue Book.