Back in the 70’s when I was a kid, every Friday evening after school my mother would take my sister and me to the shopping mall. While my sister and mom went looking at clothes I would hit the book stores that were ubiquitous to the shopping mall, B. Dalton, Pickwick and Walden books. This was my Louvre, my MET, these weekly ventures introduced me to the illustrated art of the paperback novel. In that time it seemed like cool illustrated art was everywhere, on trading cards like Topps Wacky Packages, Slurpee cups from 711, but none offered the lurid promises of the illustrated paperback novel … Continue reading The Art of Vintage Paperback Novels.