Frederick Douglass is great to draw. All the intensity of his life and activism is there. He’s definitely a subject I will be exploring further.
Author: Christopher Conway
Amelia Earhart 1897-1939
Amelia Earhart was one of my father’s favorite historical mysteries. I miss talking to him about her and what might have happened to her and to her plane in 1939. I intend to draw Amelia much more. This was my first, loose attempt.
Fab Four Postcards
Two Clifford Brown Postcards
I’m a big fan of Clifford Brown, a jazz musician who died in a car accident in 1956. His recordings of “Laura,” “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” and “Delilah” are wonderful.
Postcards
Above, left to right: Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, and R. Crumb.In March of 2019 I started sketching free hand on 4 x 6 postcards. I often draw them in bed. Playing with postcards helps me to draw fast and loose and hopefully achieve some cartoony likenesses. I generally draw in series, such as American Literary History, Jazz performers, or The Mexican Revolution. Below, left to right: Venustiano Carranza, Woman with a rifle (after a Casasola photograph), and Emiliano Zapata.
Selections from my Watercolor Pencil Journal, January-March 2019
Above: Santo and Blue Demon, Mexican wrestling super heroes of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Primitive portrait of Boris Pasternak, the author of Dr. Zhivago.
Frederick Douglass.
Thich Nhat Hanh.
The Magnificent Seven (British Lobby Card)
I don’t typically buy U.S. or British lobby cards but I got this one to illustrate my next book. The color is fantastic. The warping in the image is because I took the picture with the lobby card in its plastic sleeve. In the introduction to my upcoming book (on Mexican Westerns), I write in some detail about The Magnificent Seven (1960) as a “Borderlands” Western.
Assassination of JFK (Mexican Comic)
Here are some images from a special issue of Diario de un corazón (December, 1963), about the assassination of JFK. The comic portrays JFK as a martyr president and celebrates Jackie as a role model. Art is uncredited.
First Gallery Post
With this post, I inaugurate the blog feature of my site, which I plan to use to post items from my collection of vintage comics, magazines, pulps, and movie posters.
Here’s a 1941 Spanish pulp by Hugo Conway (Frederik John Fargus, known in English as “Hugh” Conway, 1847-1885). Cover art by the Spanish illustrator and comic book artist Emilio Freixas (1899-1976).
