Vintage pulp fiction illustrations.

As you probably have already guessed about me and my tastes in film and art, I have an intense love of classic film noir as a movie genre, and I have an affinity for the pulp readers published during the golden era. The cover illustrations, produced by many extremely talented artists, were almost always provocative.

The illustrations shown above appeared on both the original and reprinted publications as book covers for this novel (It’s a good read, by the way; a gritty noir PI story.)

The first is by an artist/photographer(?) unknown to me. The second, a re-release, was done by illustrator Rudy Nappi, a favorite of mine from that steamy and sexy era of pulp.