EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 25 © 2019 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

82 McKinley High School (also in Chicago). At McKinley she worked as the editor of the school’s newspaper, where she not only did drawings, but also chose who would draw for it (among others, her classmate, Walt Disney). After graduating from high school, she got work in various newspapers, mainly doing fashion drawings and designs in both colour and black and white, although the brief was provided by an agency. At the same time she continued her artistic education at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (where, again, Walt Disney was one of her classmates), although this time she failed to graduate resulting from her “poor lettering” —according to her—though she continued to freelance while completing her courses. During the prohibition she worked at the Dill Pickle Club, a bohemian speakeasy associated with the ‘Wobblies’ — a name given to the Industrial Workers of the World, an international labour union established in 1905 in Chicago whose members were further organized within the industry of their employment, and had ties to both socialist and anarchist labour movements. While working there she met a certain Myron Brundage, also known as ‘Slim’, a notorious womanizer who had earlier been a hobo and had since turned his FACING PAGE: The Thing in the Fog , pastel on paper, 18.25” by 20”. Cover for Weird Tales , March 1933 issue, illustrating a werewolf story by Seabury Quinn, and obviously featuring a nude lady. BELOW LEFT: Weird Tales , December 1935 issue. Again, Brundage does the cover for a R. E. Howard story. Apparently her sexy artwork worked well with Howard’s stories. BELOW RIGHT: Weird Tales , February 1936 issue (Canadian version). It’s covers like this that made many of Brundage’s detractors complain about the apparent sleaziness of her paintings, showing women being tortured.