Vintage Pulp | Jun 11 2024 |
![SEEING STARS](/images/headline/7515.png)
Aslan's must-have aquatic fashion accessory.
Above: two efforts from Alain Gourdon, aka Aslan, the first for 1960's Le soliel et le lion, credited to an author who went by Commandant René, and the second for 1954's Folie sous le chapiteau by Geo Marc. Aslan was into starfish, we guess. And now we are too.
Vintage Pulp | Nov 8 2018 |
![THE SPY FROM IPANEMA](/images/headline/4795.png)
You know why I'm great at my job? Because I'm sweating like a racehorse in this get-up and you can't tell.
French artist Alex Pinon knocks this cover for the spy thriller Mission spéciale à Rio out of the park with his black clad femme fatale and backdrop of Guanabara Bay and its famed Sugarloaf Mountain. Since Rio's average daily temperature never drops below 80 Fahrenheit, no Brazilian would actually dress like this, at least not during daytime, but the art is great. The book was published by Société des Éditions Nouvelles Valmont and its author called himself Commandant René. You're probably assuming that's a pseudonym, and you're right. It was used by Jacques Dubessy, Guy de Wargny, Henri Certigny, and other authors. Between them they wrote more than thirty books as this Commandant person, with the above coming in 1959. We have a lot of French art in the website, so poke around if it interests you. We'll have more soon.