Illustration Magazine
(The Illustrated Press)

All the issues before 2009 are BELOW THE LINE as they are stapled on the fold-over, robbing them of a true spine. Many of the counted art-pieces are the full-color ads that are in themselves fine image reproductions. They are listed here with the most recent on top. If you are curious to their ranking, by our lights, #3(reissue) is the best presentation, so far, followed by #59 & #28, and then the below-the-line issues of #19, #26, #8, #7 and finally #11.

# 59 (2018) The most pages in this issue were given over to an overview of the career of war-time poster-master (as well as valued illustrator) Jes Schlaikjer and then next, that of Harold W. McCauley. There's one last article on some of the renowned illustrators from America's frontier expeditions. Out of its 83 pages (including the back & inner covers), there are 49 featuring large reproductions and another 23 with multiple smaller images. 'Well-presented' artists are: Harry Anderson, Ludwig Bemelmans, Karl Bodmer (3), Harold McCauley (18), Jes Schlaikjer (22), Samuel Seymour (3), and N.C. Wyeth.

# 28 (2009) In this issue, the main article is upon McClelland Barclay, followed by a smaller exploration of Rudy Nappi and a short memorial to the recently passed Bernie Fuchs. Indeed, all additional art from other artists are in service to advertisements. In all, you'll find here 36 large reproductions and another 43 art-pages with multiple images gathered together. 'Well-presented' artists are: Rolf Armstrong, McClelland Barclay (22), Gil Elvgren*, Bernie Fuchs, Rudy Nappi (9), Henry Raleigh, and Norman Saunders*.

* - Note that Elvgren & Saunder's pieces here are part of embedded ads and are found better presented in their own collections on The List.

# 26 (2009) [-BELOW THE LINE-] The central feature here is the one on Graves Gladney, with many large reproductions and 33 smaller pulp-magazine covers. Then there are articles on children's illustrator Nan Pollard and also the beginnings of the American Academy of Art, along with an epitaph for Edd Cartier. In all, 96 pages, plus the back & inner covers cover, with 77 of them featuring the art (50 presenting large reproductions). 'Well-presented' pieces found here are by: Reynold Brown*, Edd Cartier**, Harvey Dunn, Graves Gladney (30), Nan Pollard (6), George Rapp, George Rozen, Norman Saunders*, Frank H. Young Sr., and UNKNOWN - as well as art-class figure-studies by Allan Lehtis (2), Allan Gough (2), J. Allen St. John, and Haddon Sundblom*.

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Brown and Saunders (part of ads for their Illustrated Press collections's), and also Sundblom, can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' piece here by Cartier cannot also be found so in his own collection up on The List.

# 19 (2007) [-BELOW THE LINE-] The most pages here were given over to a review of the career of Louis S. Glanzman and then after that there were articles about Ed Emshwiller, illustrator/teacher Peter Caras, the history of the current P&H Creative Group commercial art studio (with thumbail bios of a number of artists to emerge from there), and the recovery & legal wrangling about a stolen Norman Rockwell painting. Out of its 115 pages (including back & inner covers), there are 55 featuring large reproductions and another 43 with multiple smaller images. There is one double-page-spread of an Emsh SF cover for STARTLING STORIES that survives the center distortion quite well. 'Well-presented' pieces found here are by: Charles Allen (3), McClelland Barclay, Hilo Chen, Ernest Chiriacka (2), George Connelly, Howard Chandler Christy (2), Bradshaw Crandell, W. Herbert Dunton, Gil Elvgren (2)*, Ed Emshwiller (10)**, Louis Glanzman (13), Haines Hall (2), Mitchell Hooks, John Kacere, Francis Xavier Leyendecker, J.C. Leyendecker, Robert McGinnis**, Alton Painter, George Petty (2)***, Cole Phillips, Norman Rockwell, J.E. Roma, George Rozen, Clyde Seavey (2), Leslie Thrasher, George T. Tobin, Lawrence L. Wilbur, and Charles Allen Winter.

* - Note that Elvgren's 'well-presented' pieces here can all additionally be found so in his own collections up on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by McGinnis, and Emshwiller, cannot additionally be found so in their own collections up on The List.

*** - Note that in regards to Petty's 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in his own collection on The List.

# 11 (2004) [-BELOW THE LINE-] An 80-page issue (plus covers & inner-leaves) with the cover story being an extensive overview of the career of Robert Bonfils, followed by a lengthy preview excerpt from the then-upcoming book, Men's Adventure Magazines In Postwar America, along with a number of exhibits from it. Then there is an interesting detour into the wonders of the Krampus postcards of the 19th century, and finally the detailing of a front-row seat to the art of the pulps through the eyes of one its most utilized models, Larry E. Admire. So, you'll find here 28 pages featuring large art reproductions and another 32 with multiple images (note that ads definitely contribute to the displays). The 'well-presented' art here is from: Edward Austin Abbey, Tom Beecham, Robert Bonfils (9), Ernest Chiriacka (2), Gil Cohen, Mel Crair, Rafael DeSoto (2)***, Norm Eastman (2), Will Hulsey, Earl Norem, Samson Pollen, Norman Saunders (2)***, Syd Shores, and UNKNOWN (2).

*** - Note that in regards to the 'well-presented' pieces here by DeSoto, and Saunders, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in each of their own collections on The List.

# 8 (2003) [-BELOW THE LINE-] The most pages here were given over to a review of the career of William George and also, only to a slightly less extent, Ernest Chiriacka. After that, there was an article about the artists who painted the box art for Aurora models. Out of its 83 pages (including the back & inner covers), there are 40 featuring large reproductions and another 26 with multiple smaller images. There are two double-page-spreads that survive the center distortion quite well. 'Well-presented' pieces found here are by: John Amendola, Ernest Chiriacka (7), James P. Cox (2), John Falter, William George (14), Roy Grinell, Jo Kotula, Mort Künstler (2), J.C. Leyendecker, Jack Leynnwood (2), Harry Schaare (2), John Steel, and UNKNOWN.

# 7 (2003) [-BELOW THE LINE-] The most pages here were given over to a review of the career of Frank Schoonover and then after that there were articles about Reynold Brown, the artists who painted the box art for Revell models, and the lithography that produced sheet music covers over the turn of the last century and before. Out of its 80 pages, there are 35 featuring large reproductions and another 17 with multiple smaller images. There is one double-page-spread of one of Brown's iconic Creature of the Black Lagoon posters that survives the center distortion quite well. 'Well-presented' pieces found here are by: Reynold Brown (7)*, Alfred Concanen, Harvey Dunn, Scottie Eldson (2), Gary Gianni, Richard Kishady (5), Jack Leynnwood (4), R. Pannell, Frank E. Schoonover (11), John Steel (4), and Leslie Thrasher.

* - Note that Brown's pieces here can all be found 'well-presented' in his own collection up on The List.

# 3 (2002 (reissued in 2009)) First, make sure you are getting only the publisher's reissue of this release (the one with the 'blue lady' cover) in which they reformulated the 48 original pages, removing the now outdated ads and 'current event' features, to allow more free space for enlarging the presentation footprint for the featured artists' art - not to mention adding *32* more pages for even more exhibits! The larger page-count seems to encourage the change to a square-bound spine that it did not enjoy beforehand, pushing the new publication up onto The List here, rather than still languishing 'below the line'. Most of the book is split between career-overviews of both Robert Maguire and Eugene Iverd. There's also a one-page article detailing the discovery in a restaurant of a Hayden Hayden Coca-Cola ad painting that someone 'modified' to now be a semi-nude, intended to reside behind the bar there. And finally, there's the introduction and two full-page ads for the publisher's books about Reynold Brown and Norman Saunders. So, this 80-page volume has 55 pages featuring large reproductions (including many original paintings, as well as published versions of other art) and another 14 pages pulling two or three images together. The 'well-presented' count looks like: Reynold Brown, Eugene Iverd (26), Robert Maguire (27)***, and Norman Saunders.