Science Piction

Wednsday Illustration Day.

Always interested in the work of Alex Kortzky, I bought myself a set of mid fifties science fiction magazines where he did illustrations. The big surprise was, that he was not the only comic or newspaper artist doing illustratioons. Publisher Ziff-Davis had ben in de comics bussiness for a shor period in the early fifties and there they had showed a knack of getting the best talent and paying them well.

Alex Kotzky:

John Giunta:

Irv Novick:

Sam Burlockoff:

Unknown:

Don't Go Changin'

Wednesday Illustration Day.

Sam Burlockoff was an interesting artist, inasmuch he was capable to go from a very strong realistic style to a equally convincing cartoon style. Here I have two of his more serious pieces. One is a grimm story from one of Timely/Atlas' war books and the other an illustration from Ziff-Davis' fantasy pulp Amazing Stories (which used a lof of comic booka artists in the late fifties). Later I wil ad some of his cartoon work, which I found in one of the Mad imitations of a slightly later period as well as several of the cheaper cartoon mags.