#matt fox

[hooperdrivestheboat]

Weird Tales, May 1947 Cover by Matt Fox

[charnel-grounds]

“. . . Could some act of his have opened the way for occult forces to invade his privacy?”

Matt Fox (1906–1988), illustration to “The Ormolu Clock” by August Derleth

from ‘Weird Tales’ Vol. 42 #2, January 1950

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[kilianromero]

Weird Tales Cover by Matt Fox (1950)

[tyger-land]

Golden Age horror comic books of the 1950s featuring cover artwork by: Frank Frazetta, Mike Esposito, Jack Kirby, Bernard Baily, Jack Cole, Matt Fox, Wally Wood, Warren Kremer and Basil Wolverton.

[thefugitivesaint]

Matthew “Matt” Fox (1906-1988), “Famous Fantastic Mysteries”, Vol.6, #1, 1944 illustration for Algernon Blackwood's 'The Wendigo' I posted a less cleaned up version of this image back in 2017 and I just realized that I provided the wrong attribution. Unfortunately, there's no way to go back and prevent people from re-sharing my mistake; One I'm amending, probably pointlessly, here. I'm usually pretty reliable when it comes to matching a piece of artwork with the artist that made it. Or so I like to tell myself. I think it might just have been a cut and paste problem where I was careless and wasn't paying proper attention. Either way, I have contributed to incorrect information being spread on the internet. I don't like that. Innocuous misinformation is still misinformation and the internet is already saturated with enough bullshit.

[vintagerpg]

Flipping through The Chillingly Weird Art of Matt Fox (2023), presents the full range of Fox’s career from the pulps in the ’20s to unpublished work from his later years and the many decades of comics work in-between.

Several things become quickly apparent, but first among them is that Matt Fox is the master of the skulking weirdo. In nearly every page there is some grinning, bug-eyed creep leering at you. It gets unnerving after a while (Stan Kelly’s much memed Sicko perhaps owes something to Fox). Second is the stiffness of his figures and the flatness of his compositions. Again, unnerving how many of the pieces confront the viewer straight on and feature a claustrophobic lack of interior depth. His work is highly detailed and seems to come from an earlier age of woodcuts, but at the same time, anticipates a lot of stylistic choices that would be made by indie and comix artists in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.

Some stand-outs. The ghoul from the cover of the December, 1952 issue of Chilling Tales is a solid gold classic (recently recreated as a ReAction figure by Super7, even) and I agree with longtime follower Jeff Black that it could have partly inspired Sutherland’s illustration of the ghoul in the Monster Manual. That crazy goat demon is the illustration that accompanied “Notebook Found in a Deserted House” for its original publication in Weird Tales in 1951 — not quite what I envisioned, but nevertheless an epic illustration for my favorite Robert Bloch tale. Also, literally every drawing for the never-realized Beelzebub’s Book is a banger — full-page, strange, seemingly semi-autobiographical.

Fox is probably acquired taste, but well worth the effort.

[chernobog13]

Please tell me this little alien guy ain't doing what it looks like he's doing.

[smbhax]

From Tales of Suspense #43, July 1963. Stan Lee plot, Larry Lieber script & pencils, Matt Fox inks, Tom Foral letters.

Info from Grand Comics Database