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The art of Basil Gogos
Glenn Strange as the Monster in “Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein”
When I was a kid it was simple, I loved Mad magazine and for my brother it was Famous Monsters. In fact it was FM, Eerie and Vampirella. The obvious seller for each of these magazines was their compelling artwork. I will always be in awe of the caricatures of Jack Davis for Mad and Frank Frazetta’s Vampirella covers will always be etched in my memory, but it was the Famous Monsters covers and the art of Basil Gogos that kept me up at night.
(from Wiki) Basil Gogos’ Famous Monsters cover art featured most of the classic horror characters such as The Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, King Kong, Godzilla and The Creature from the Black Lagoon and popular horror actors like Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, Lon Chaney, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Gogos often captured his subjects in an array of vivid colors using a technique in which the artist imagined the character bathed in colors from multiple light sources. He enjoyed painting monsters more than most of his more conventional assignments because of the freedom he was given and because of the challenge of painting such unusual characters which he endeavoured to portray as both frightening and sympathetic.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
The legendary Dracula
You can read more about Basil Gogos at wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Gogos
Any fan of 1960’s Monster Mania or just quality painting/illustration should not pass up on this soon to be classic: Famous Monster Movie Art of Basil Gogos
