Clik here to view.
SCREW Issue #1330, featuring cover artist Guy Gonzales
For our inaugural SCREW Magazine Cover Art post, let's check out Issue #1330, which features a delightful Times Square drawing by longtime SCREW contributor & living legend Guy Gonzales, (in this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SCREW Issue #491, featuring cover artist Wallace Wood
Before I get any deeper into my stack of old SCREW covers, I should explain exactly how I came by that stack.In late 2003, with bankruptcy looming, Al Goldstein's days as SCREW's publisher were drawing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SCREW Cover #502, featuring cover artist Paul Kirchner
The name "Paul Kirchner" will be familiar to those of us who read HEAVY METAL during the 1980's, where his surreal, immaculately-drawn strip "The Bus" ran for what seemed like forever. A quick glance...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cover Art for SCREW #1716, featuring cover artist Hawk Krall
Here's a late issue of SCREW drawn by Philly cartoonist & chef Hawk Krall. At least I assume that the issue dates from the paper's waning months, since Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes is being chastised...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cover Art for SCREW #1412, featuring cover artist Natpink (?)
Earlier this week, I received an email from a reader of this blog, asking if I could help him track down an issue of SCREW that featured a Li'l Abner parody, (as listed in some Denis Kitchen...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SCREW #1339: At His Satanic Majesty's Request
For those of you who may have been wondering, "when's Hellman gonna post one of his own covers?," here's one of mine. While I don't want this blog to degenerate into my own personal egomaniacal thrill...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cover Art for SCREW #506, featuring cover artist Spain Rodriguez
Spain Rodriguez has been one of my all-time underground comix faves since I picked up my first ZAP Comix reprint in the very early 80s. Whether it's his iconic antihero Trashman, his femme fatale Big...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cover Art for SCREW #1026, featuring cover artist Robert Schneck
Here's a scan of SCREW #1026, with a cover drawing by frequent contributor Robert Schneck. A talented, versatile illustrator, Schneck drew LOTS of excellent SCREW covers in the late '80's and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cover Art for SCREW #1024, featuring cover artist Robert Crumb
What can I say about Robert Crumb? He invented underground comix, and after forty years, he remains the towering figure in that scene. His is a household name, spoken reverently by cartoonists and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
David Aaron Clark: 1960 - 2009
I knew Dave Clark when he was an editor at SCREW, which would've been from early in 1990 to sometime in 1995 or 1996, (I'm navigating from memory here, so my dates may be a bit off). I thought he was a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cover Art for SCREW #1063, featuring cover artist Jim "Hak" Hopkins
By the early 1980s, the path that led cartoonists from Manhattan's School of Visual Arts to SCREW Magazine had been well-established. Kevin Hein, who in his SVA days assisted Art Spiegelman &...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Forgotten SCREW Cover Art of Tony Millionaire
MAAKIES cartoonist Tony Millionaire has been giving me shit over some mildly risque designs I drew recently for BROKEN SKATEBOARDS, (available for purchase here: http://brokenskateboards.nl/products/ )...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Forgotten SCREW Cover Art of Tony Millionaire, Part Two: Issue #1,312, or...
Part Two of our long, reluctant march through the forgotten SCREW cover art of Tony Millionaire brings us within view of SCREW #1,312, dated April 25, 1994. Compare this cover with the one from my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Where have you gone, Rodney King?
SCREW’s take on the 1991 roadside beating: a hot guy-on-guy S/M session gone bad, (I guess Rodney forgot his safe word).
View ArticleClik here to view.
SCREW #1,143: Cover art by Sabina Van der Linden
This issue is dated January 28, 1991. I know next to nothing about Sabina Van der Linden, but this cover has always stood out in my memory as one of the strongest 1990s-era SCREW covers I've seen. Any...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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 ArticleClik here to view.
Nine 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 ArticleClik here to view.
SCREW #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 ArticleClik here to view.
SCREW #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 ArticleClik here to view.
SCREW #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 Article