Romance novels thrive on familiarity and the promise of a happily ever after (or a happy for now), and their covers likewise play to readers’ expectations. A mystical object surrounded by vining ...

Gloria Stoll Karn’s start as a pulp fiction artist reads like one ... show how ideas were developed into final paintings for romance, western, and detective stories. “We were drawn to the ...

Prince has an affinity for “romance comics and pulp novel covers from the 1940s to the 1960s,” she says. “I love the bold colors, the intense gazes, the moody lighting.” She’s also a fan ...

DeSoto made his living illustrating pulp magazines and liked what he ... she’d go on to create more than 100 full-color covers for romance and mystery magazines. And more than 75 years after ...

I worry that its effects will be felt until the romance returns some generation ... A Frank McCarthy, famous for his western pulp illustrations, original oil on board hammered for $8,500, and ...

Wert's years in Hillsborough were his most prolific. He painted covers for such pulp titles as Western Story, North West Stories, Lariat, Western Adventures, and Wild West Weekly, as well as ...