Pulp International - Noël+Vexin

Dec 7 2014

HODGE PODGE

Virtually unknown French artist James Hodges shows he’s a top tier illustrator.

Above are fifteen more covers from French artist James Hodges, who we’re still trying to learn details about. Was he actually French, with a name like James? That much seems certain. Was he a genius? Clearly. We’ll keep digging until we know all there is to know.

Update: On the other hand, he could be less of a genius than we thought...

France James Hodges Guy de Bellet Steve Cockrane William Ard Noël Vexin cover art literature

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Sep 25 2014

BON GIOVANNI

Giovanni Benvenuti raises the bar for French crime covers.

Today we wanted to share a series of truly spectacular French covers from Frédéric Ditis’s eponymous company Ditis, published as part of its popular La Chouette—or Owl—collection. These all date from the mid-1950s to early 1960s, and there’s really nothing to say about them except that they’re by the sublime Giovanni Benvenuti.

France Ditis Frédéric Ditis Giovanni Benvenuti Helen Nielsen Noël Vexin Anthony Morton Terry Drake Michel Averlant Jean Pierre Ferrière John Evans Geneviève Manceron cover art cover collection literature

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History Rewind

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

August 20

1940—Trotsky Iced in Mexico

In Mexico City exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe (not an ice pick) by Soviet agent Ramon Mercader. Trotsky dies the next day.

1968—Prague Spring Ends

200,000 Warsaw Pact troops backed by 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the Prague Spring political liberalization movement.

1986—Sherrill Goes Postal

In Edmond, Oklahoma, United States postal employee Patrick Sherrill shoots and kills fourteen of his co-workers and then commits suicide.

August 19

1953—Mohammed Mossadegh Overthrown in Iran

At the instigation of the CIA, Prime Minster of Iran Mohammed Mossadegh is overthrown and the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is installed as leader of the country.

August 18

1920—U.S. Women Gain Right To Vote

The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified despite heavy conservative opposition. It states that no U.S. citizen can be denied the right to vote because of their gender.

1958—Lolita is Published in the U.S.

Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita, about a man's sexual obsession with a pre-pubescent girl, is published in the United States. It had been originally published in Paris three years earlier.

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