"The Art of WoW!" featuring Winnie Fitch

While things have been very quiet here on the TI blog these last few weeks, it's been crazy over on the TI Facebook page! We're closing in on 1,7500 members, and our many contributors have been posting an average of one hundred vintage art, design, cartoon and comic book scans a day. That's 3,000 new images a month! The discussions around these posts continue 24-7, so there's always something interesting going on, no matter what timezone you're in.If...

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Raymond F. Houlihan (1923 - 1991) Part2

In the 1950s, Ray Houlihan was already well established as a book illustrator. Here's one example, published by Doubleday in 1956...As mentioned yesterday, aside from Coronet magazine...... where his work was often printed far too small to be truly appreciated...... Houlihan doesn't seem to have managed to penetrate the mainstream consumer magazine market during the 1950s. But in the 1960s his work did appear in Reader's Digest - both the magazine.........

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Raymond F. Houlihan (1923 - 1991) Part 1

Raymond F. Houlihan was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1923. He attended the Art Students League in New York City, but it's unclear if that was before or after he began working professionally.Like many other aspiring young artists of his era, Houlihan's first published work may have been pages of comic book art like this example below. Houlihan was 18 or 19 years old when he pencilled this page for a strip called "Axis Grinder."Working for...

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