May 8, 2024
This is a very silly thing, but somewhere in the jumble of Aristasian and Proto-Aristasian writings I've been consuming at a frantic pace, I saw this particular book referenced. And sure enough, if you flip through it you see many of the vintage illustrations in this book were used in their days of Romantia zines, all the way up to the 2000's web graphics. Other Dover illustration books seem to contain some of the same art used in Aristasian literature. They must have had a big stack of these books! You can check these out for free on the internet archive for an hour at a time to skim through them, it's been fun flipping through these and seeing all the familiar images.
