BORIS BY BASIL

Halloween is next Tuesday, so...

Monster-of-the-Week: ...it seems like this week's honoree should be one of the all-time classics. So how about...

...Karloff's Frankenstein Monster, in this masterly, iconic rendition from the recently late and much-lamented Famous Monsters of Filmland cover artist Basil Gogos.

Happy (and safe) All Hallows' Eve everybody!

MONSTERS A GOGOS

RIP to Basil Gogos, passed on at 88. The Egyptian-born Greek illustrator painted many covers for the  classic vintages of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, bathing his gruesome ghouls in vivid, indeed lurid colors. An example...

Monster-of-the-Week: ...is this week's honoree, a handsome portrait by Gogos of the title character...

...played by Robert Clarke in the 1959 shocker The Hideous Sun Demon.