So, after all these years the consensus among experts finally is that cover artist Jacques Thibésart’s stylized signature should be read Mik instead of Nik. The mysteries of French cover artists continue to unravel… slowly.
We’ve shared this cover today to call attention to the change we’ve made to all his previous mentions on Pulp Intl. The man has caused no end of trouble. But he’s worth it, because just look at this piece above, with a femme fatale battering the living daylights out of a problematic male on Bevis Winter’s Quand elles se mettent à cogner… from Éditions Le Trotteur in 1953 for its series Le Roman de Choc, or Shock Novel.
Winter was an English author born in Birmingham in 1918 and active mostly during the 1950s who published as Hyman Zoré, Al Bocca, Gordon Shayne, Peter Cagney, and other pseudonyms. We’ve run across his work exclusively in French editions for some reason, but he did in fact write in English. He’ll pop up again later, we’re sure.
