The original magazine cover for this piece “A Man…A Woman…and 1968’s Most Terrifying Survival Siege”
Born to Polish and Austrian parents of Jewish heritage in Brooklyn in 1927, Kunstler is still alive as of this post (96 years old). His work in Stag magazines and pulp fiction paved the way for later historical and movie poster art (including The Posedon Adventure). It ranged from chauvinistic, salacious, exciting, violent to utterly absurd (see the Pangolin attack below) but with an undeniable flair for composition and storytelling.
“Trapped in Mexico’s Cave of Giant Rats!”
Charlie Kelly: King of the rats, seen here with his bashing stick
Someone give that woman a soup. She’s starving.
That is pretty much how all of us looked before McDonald’s sold a billion cheeseburgers.
“The Rough Riders”
That’s amazing
One of the great painters of the first half century, Francis Picabia, seemed to be going in this cheeky, pulpy direction later in life, I recommend looking for “Picabia nudes” on an image searcher.
She looks like she’s essentially holding a side plank, that can’t be comfortable at all.
Hawt.