#modest stein

[weirdlookindog]

Modest Stein - Skull and Keys, 1945.

#modest stein #skull and keys #the shadow digest #pulp art #cover art #skull #art #painting

[gameraboy2]

Western Story, April 22, 1933 Cover by Modest Stein

#western story #cowboy #modest stein #1933 #1930s #vintage #painting #art #illustration

[evilhorse]

Don’t be so modest…

(Starman #5)

#Starman #will Payton #power girl #Karen starr #firestorm #ronnie raymond #martin stein #modest #invasion! #crossover #team up #dat rack #roger stern #tom lyle #dc comics #comics #80s comics #legacy heroes

[newestcool]

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#newestcool #newest cool #浅川紘一郎 #Kiichiro Asakawa #Shotaro Yamaguchi #stein #ssstein #ssstein design #山口祥太郎 #Rakuten Tokyo fashion week #RakutenFashionWeekTOKYO #RakutenFWT #Rakuten fwt #fw2023 #fw 2023 #fw23 #fw 23 #fall/winter 2023 #tokyo fashion week 2023 #modest high fashion #シュタイン #ファッションウィーク #ヴォーグニッポン #楽天 #エルジャパン #アイディー・ジャパン

[lanaturnerhascollapsed]

Picture Play, April 1931

#janet gaynor #magazine: picture play #year: 1931 #decade: 1930s #type: illustrations #artist: modest stein #pp vol. 34 no. 2

[oakendesk]

Dime Mystery Magazine Oct 1936

Tom Lovell

Love Story Magazine Sep 26 1936

Modest Stein

#golden age art #pulp magazine art #pulp art #pulp art 1936 #Love Story Magazine #Modest Stein art #Dime Mystery Magazine #Tom Lovell art #byronrimbaud

[citizenscreen]

Gary Cooper illustration by Modest Stein on Picture Play in June 1929

#gary cooper

[the1920sinpictures]

August, 1927 Cover of “Picture Play” featuring Louise Brooks painted by Modest Stein. From Art Deco, FB.

[chernobog13]

The very first issue of The Shadow magazine!

The cover painting is actually from The Thrill Book (vol 3) #1 (October, 1919) by artist Modest Stein.

According to Walter Gibson, The Shadow's original chronicler (using the pseudonym Maxwell Grant), the old cover was re-used in order to save money, and because it had a large shadow in it.

In order for the old cover to have some relevance, Gibson was ordered by his editors to "introduce a Chinese angle, to carry the action to Manhattan's Chinatown." Even though Gibson had already written the first six chapters of the story, The Living Shadow, he welcomed the directive because it introduced "an intriguing setting that gave The Shadow opportunity for a new disguise."

#The Shadow #The Living Shadow #Street & Smith #pulp magazines #pulp heroes

[fireyfobbitmedicine]

Frankie's First Day Out-

The Steins are more than happy to take their new daughter out for the first time- only they realize at the last minute that Frankie needed something to wear before they went out (clearly something more modest than that hospital gown she was brought to life in).

Fortunately Mrs Stein had a hundred years worth of fashion knowhow to help her daughter.

She loaned her dear child one of her own dresses, hurriedly hemming it to keep her from tripping over (plus this dress was borrowed so she'll want it back of course). And of course she needed to do something with her hair, and in Mrs Stein's experience big hair never goes out of style, so Frankie sports a large updo with her bangs down and parted to accentuate her perfect forehead and show off her beautiful eyes she got from her parents (they had plenty of spares anyway). Mrs Stein must've been a bit scattered brained at the moment because she nearly forgot to get shoes for the outfit, but fortunately she thought fast and grabbed an old pair of patchwork boots from deep within her closet that she knew would fit Frankie (she did make sure that they would share the same shoe size). And to top off the look she grabbed some pieces of her own jewelry from her jewelry box- wait did she mistook her sewing kit for it again? Oh well her daughter looks fabulous any way.

Just as she finished the look Mrs Stein briefly wonders if this look is too over the top- and so tosses on her husband's jacket to give it a more casual look.

Soon Mrs Stein takes her daughter down the stairs to see her husband nearly dead asleep from waiting for the two of them to finish up. When he came to Mr Stein burst into tears at the sight of Frankie, almost believing he slept for so long that it was already her wedding day. Frankie and her mother immediately comfort him, Mr Stein remarking that she was growing up so fast. The family merely laughed and finally left for the Maul, Frankie sure to turn heads when they arrived.

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This is an idea I have for a collector doll of Frankie inspired by this passage from Frankie's diary

that's also a homage to Frankenstein's Monster and the Bride (also it's funny to imagine that she met Clawdeen and Draculaura for the first time in this extra outfit)

#Monster high #dollblr #frankie stein

[bookmaven]

THE MOON IS HELL by John W. Campbell (Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1951) Cover by Hannes Bok.

The Moon Is Hell! is a collection of two stories, one science fiction, the other sword and sorcery. It was published in an edition of 4,206 copies

The title story, original to this collection, deals with a team of scientists stranded on the Moon when their spacecraft crashes, and how they use their combined skills and knowledge to survive until rescue, including building shelter from meteor showers, and creating their own oxygen from Lunar rock. The second story, "The Elder Gods" [from a story by Arthur J. Burke] originally appeared in the October 1939 issue of Unknown under the pseudonym Don A. Stuart.

Unknown [v2 #2, October 1939] Edited by John W. Campbell. Cover by Modest Stein.

“The Elder Gods” by Don A. Stuart [with Arthur J. Burks] Illustrated by Isip

“A God in a Garden” by Theodore Sturgeon. Illustrated by Isip

“Dreams May Come” by H. Warner Munn. llustrated by H. Wesso

“Anything” by Lester del Rey. Illustrated by Isip

“Blue and Silver Brocade” by Dorothy Quick. Illustrated by Harry Kirchner

“The Enchanted Weekend” by John MacCormac. Illustrated by H.H. Gilmore

source

#book blog #books #books books books #book cover #pulp art #science fiction #john w campbell #fantasy press #unknown #Modest stain #don a. stuart #hannes bok #sword and sorcery #book design #ingenuity

[gameraboy2]

Street & Smith's Love Story Magazine, October 8, 1932 Cover by Modest Stein

#western #western art #art #illustration #romance #modest stein #painting #vintage #1932 #1930s

[iamveronica]

i can go for weeks feeling a great deal of affection towards Johnny but then he will say something that irks me and my goodwill goes out the window and i remember people snidely calling him Johnny Marrtyr and “boring guitar nerd” and laugh 

Seymour Stein. Legendary record man. Signed me to Sire Records in 1984

what do you mean “me” what do you mean YOU

Johnny loves calling other people straight and squares but Set the Boy Free post-Smiths was a slog to get through for the most part. congrats on your straight-edge lifestyle, marathon man. genuinely happy for you but wrap it up. out of his post-Smiths work, i mostly just like The The and his solo stuff. not that the whole throwing tomatoes at passersby with Matt Johnson story impressed me either. it just made me go wtf. i was horrified and horribly disappointed by how pedestrian guitar rock The Cribs record was. don’t get me started on Modest Mouse’s singer’s voice. that is to say, i’ve given most of his contributions to music post-Smiths the old college try. ok so you lied to Noel about listening to his tape, ok why. did you not want to hurt his feelings or will you say anything to ingratiate yourself with people? out of Johnny Marr was born the evil that is Oasis, possibly his most unforgivable sin (i am KIDDING btw none of this is serious). the jamming sesh with Paul McCartney that went nowhere. love that for you anyway 

not that Morrissey was much better in roughly the last quarter of Autobiography with the whole rundown of the venues and crowds he played to but he still managed to make me laugh or sit there agape, like his little anecdote of graciously supplying a homeless lady with the entire stock of his hotel room’s mini bar only to be chastised by an unnamed band member with the suggestion that she might be a recovering alcoholic, and Morrissey having nothing to say to that except “Yes, well...” MORRISSEY! or the kidnapping attempt in Mexico that i’m still not sure if i read it in Morrissey’s autobiography or if it was a Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul subplot or both. also:

My nightly walks with Jesse would begin at the tip of Villa Borghese where Via Ulisse Aldrovandi lines up its glossy array of roadside prostitutes – mostly male, hard-bitten heroes fastidiously attired as sons of Eros. Their eyes are darts of desire, standing in the trees beyond, with legs wide apart. Every single night they are there, like a soccer team awaiting the club bus, and we are struck by how none of them are identifiably emasculated; they are just manly sons of mothers in search of others.

his Every single night they are there made me wonder whether it was a safe assumption on his part or his testimony to also being there every single night, gawking. a stunning passage either way 

credit where it’s due, Johnny was very engaging in his descriptions of his child/teenagehood and his road to Morrissey’s doorstep. Set the Boy Free is worth it just for that

i did remember the origin of the Rolling Stones’ Angie tidbit that i mentioned, as it relates to Johnny’s wedding and of COURSE it was Simon Goddard, writing for Pitchfork:

Even his wedding to lifelong girlfriend Angie leaves best man Morrissey on the cutting room floor, similarly robbing the reader of the spooky coincidence that as the newlyweds climbed into a car after the service, the Rolling Stones’ “Angie” magically piped up on the radio. The handsome devil is in such details. Without them, *Set The Boy Free *is the drabbest of plain Janes.

so unkind

but it also reminded me of another IRKSOME thing Johnny did: 

When he dismisses Morrissey’s godhead Oscar Wilde, whose “talent was spoiled by his smug self-regard and pomposity,” the eyebrow needn’t arch very high before registering the inference.

it didn’t make me raise my eyebrow so much as roll my eyes

anyway, i can’t believe it’s 2023 and people are talking about a Smiths reunion again and it’s all down to a few charitable lines Morrissey let slip in the last 24 hours:

If you could go back in time, right back to the 80’s, and start your music journey over again, is there anything you would change or do differently, or are you content and satisfied with your journey and how you have traversed the entertainment world?

I absolutely love it.  I think the songs are magnificent and after all of the prejudicial crap from the press … my soul is still my own.

That’s good to hear.

To have the Smiths as your distant roots gives me pride, and the reasons why we were ridiculed and rejected have now become the precise reasons why so many people love the Smiths in 2023. It’s on the rise!

outside of tumblr, being a Moz fan who likes, nay, loves Johnny, makes me feel like an oddity

anyway 

Do you find this as utterly confusing as the rest of us, that they claim to dislike you, yet can’t quite manage to leave you alone?

It comes across mostly as sexual obsession.

when he’s right, he’s right

#the smiths #morrissey #johnny marr #marrissey

[decodarling]

Love Story Magazine ,

February 13 1932.

Art by Modest Stein.

#vintage #art deco #1930s

[lgbhistory]

Sylvia Beach (1887-1962)

A writer, publisher and the owner of the prominent Shakespeare and company bookstore in Paris (yes, the pictures of which you have probably seen on pinterest).

She was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II.

Sylvia was born in United Stated but in 1901 her family moved to Paris. Her father’s name was Sylvester Beach and that might be why she changed her birthname (Nancy) to Sylvia later so that she could be Sylvia Beach.

While conducting research at the Bibliothèque Nationale, in a French literary journal Beach read of a lending library and bookshop, La Maison des Amis des Livres. When she came there, she met an owner who turned out to be a young woman Adrienne Monnier. The two later became lovers and lived together for 36 years.

Beach started dreaming of her own book shop , so with Monnier's help, Beach opened an English language bookstore and lending library that she named Shakespeare and Company.

Shakespeare and Company quickly attracted both French and American readers, including aspiring writers to whom Beach offered hospitality and encouragement as well as books.

In July 1920, Beach met the writer James Joyce at a dinner party. Soon after, Joyce joined Beach's lending library. Joyce had been trying, unsuccessfully, to publish his manuscript for his masterpiece, Ulysses, and Beach, seeing his frustration, offered to publish it.

Shakespeare and Company gained considerable fame after it published Ulysses in 1922.

Beach would later be financially stranded when Joyce signed on with another publisher, leaving Beach in debt after she had bankrolled, and suffered severe losses from, the publication of Ulysses.

Shakespeare and Company experienced financial difficulty throughout the Great Depression of the 1930s but remained supported by wealthy friends, including Bryher.

In 1936 when Beach thought that she would be forced to close her shop, André Gide organized a group of writers into a club called Friends of Shakespeare and Company. Subscribers paid 200 francs a year to attend readings at Shakespeare and Company.

Beach later recalled "we were so glorious with all these famous writers and all the press we received that we began to do very well in business".

In 1956, Beach wrote Shakespeare and Company, a memoir of the inter-war years that details the cultural life of Paris at the time. The book contains first-hand observations of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Benet and many others.

After Monnier's (her lover) suicide in 1955, Beach had a relationship with Camilla Steinbrugge.Although Beach's income was modest during the last years of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. Beach died in 1962.

George Whitman (her friend) opened a new bookshop in 1951 at a different location in Paris (in the rue de la Bûcherie) originally called Le Mistral, but renamed Shakespeare and Company in 1964 in honor of Sylvia Beach. Since his death in 2011, it has been run by his daughter Sylvia Whitman (who was named after Sylvia Beach).

#lgbhistory #lgbeurope #lgblesbian #lgbfrance #lgbcentraleurope

[oakendesk]

Fantastic Adventures Sep 1939

Harold W McCauley

Detective Story Magazine Sep 1939

Modest Stein

#golden age art #pulp magazine art #pulp art #pulp art 1939 #Detective Story Magazine #Modest Stein art #Fantastic Adventures #Harold W McCauley art #byronrimbaud