If you have an interest in pulp and mid-century men’s magazines, you’ve probably seen this image. It’s all over the web because it was made famous by Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, who were inspired by it to release an album entitled Weasels Ripped My Flesh. We decided to ferret out who did the art, and found that it was Wil Hulsey, who painted several animal attack covers and always did a bang-up job. As for us, we did a less than bang-up job repairing and realigning the flawed scan we found, but we never claimed to be experts at this stuff. We’d fire the Photoshop guy, but he’s also our archivist, researcher, receptionist, and he makes the liquor runs.
