SCREW #1,118: Cover art by Eric Drooker
Here's a nice George HW Bush cover attributed to "Dr. Ook," aka Eric Drooker, the illustrator extraordinaire who has provided many fine covers to The NEW YORKER, as well as posters for the Occupy Wall...
View ArticleNine SCREW covers by SPAIN RODRIGUEZ, (1940 - 2012)
Spain Rodriguez drew many wonderful covers for SCREW Magazine during his long cartooning career. Here are the nine I have in my collection, but I suspect there are lots more. If anyone has a SCREW...
View ArticleSCREW #398, cover art by Wallace Wood
Recently, collector Thomas Stein told me that he'd acquired an issue of SCREW from the mid 70s with cover art by Wally Wood. I started salivating as soon as he described the drawing to me, since this...
View ArticleSCREW #1,349, cover art by Kim Deitch
Collector Thomas Stein recently put in a request to see the one and only SCREW cover drawn by underground comix legend Kim Deitch. It just so happens I have a copy, and here it is! I chatted with Kim...
View ArticleSCREW #1,280, cover art by Danny Hellman
A recent cover illo of mine for New Mexico alt weekly SANTA FE REPORTER seems to have ticked off some local Catholics, (as reported on ABC affiliate KOAT:...
View ArticleFor the last time: AL GOLDSTEIN IS NOT DEAD.
12/16/13: Confusion erupted early this morning when readers of magician Penn Jillette's Twitter feed read the following: "I'm in NYC. Today I visited my hero and friend Al Goldstein as he dies in the...
View ArticleFARE THEE WELL, SMUT PEDDLER: Al Goldstein RIP (1936-2013)
Al Goldstein has taken the elevator to the big edit meeting in the sky. I'll leave the obit-writing to the professionals.You'll find those here:...
View ArticleSCREW #1,414, cover art by Tim Johnson
If I had to make a list of the ten all-time best SCREW covers, this Ten Commandments riff by Tim Johnson would be on it. Great composition, great colors, great Goldstein caricature, all working in...
View ArticleSCREW #1,402, cover art by Sam Henderson
Continuing with my hypothetical list of the ten all-time best SCREW covers, Sam Henderson's clever commentary on the excesses of the Me Generation would come in at #27. What it lacks in raw sexuality,...
View ArticleSCREW #1,370, cover art by Scott Cunningham
Drawn when TV series "The X Files" was at the apex of its popularity, UFO afficionado Scott Cunningham shows us what agents Mulder & Scully get up to in their off hours. Issue dated June 5, 1995
View ArticleWill this be my final Goldstein? Cover art for XPOSE Magazine, 2/7/14
Will this be my final Goldstein? Cover art for XPOSE Magazine, 2/7/14, art direction by Kevin Hein.
View ArticleSCREW 1,228, cover art by Danny Hellman
Seemed like the right time to dust this one off.Issue dated Sept. 14, 1992
View ArticleFive SCREW Covers by Sophie Cossette!
July 8, 1996December 9, 1996July 28, 1997January 26, 1998August 30, 1999Toronto-based cartoonist Sophie Cossette was kind enough to send me a care package stuffed with her excellent SCREW covers a few...
View ArticleSCREW #147 featuring cover art by YOSSARIAN, plus a tasteless Vietnam-era...
Here's SCREW #147, dated December 27, 1971. This is from the era when Steven Heller was art director, and Jim Buckley, (SCREW's co-founder) was still on the masthead). Another interesting tidbit from...
View ArticleNATIONAL SCREW Vol.1, No.3, with a four page comics feature by WILL EISNER
Will Eisner in SCREW?!? Yes, it's true. In the late Seventies, Al Goldstein partnered with Lyle Stuart to publish a slick, national version of SCREW magazine titled, (what else?) NATIONAL SCREW. I...
View ArticleSCREW promotional coaster, featuring art by WAYNO
Here's something a little different: I spent this past weekend at the PIX show in Pittsburgh, hob-nobbing with talented titans of cartoondom like Mark Zingarelli, Don Simpson, Jim Rugg, and of course,...
View ArticleCharles Keating: Dead at 90; Cover art for SCREW #1,129 by Yours Truly
Anti-porn crusader and convicted S&L scamster Charles H. Keating is dead at Age 90.Here's Keating on the cover of SCREW #1,129, (issue dated October 22, 1990) with like-minded sleazeballs Jimmy...
View ArticleSCREW #463, art by Mary Wilshire
SCREW #463, art by Mary Wilshiredated January 16, 1978
View ArticleCover Art for SCREW #514, by Mary Wagner
Cover Art for SCREW #514, by Mary Wagner, dated January 8, 1979(special thanks to Walter Dickinson)
View ArticleSCREW #735, art by Burt Koppi
SCREW #735, art by Burt Koppi, dated April 1, 1983(special thanks to Walter Dickinson)
View ArticleSCREW #401, cover art by ironmountain
SCREW #401, cover art by ironmountain, dated November 8, 1976
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