Jabroni Baloney

Illustration from Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales by Warwick Goble (1910)

“Who Cares?” (1901) by Charles Dana Gibson.

“The doomed tiger.” Chatterbox. 1898.

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From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.

My collection of vintage hands is gripping.

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Fig. 13. Atlantosaurus, restored. A picture book of evolution. 1906.

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If I was a dinosaur, I’d attack the Duke of York too.

Ursula Kimball Russell, ‘Nightmare of the Boy Who Would n’t Eat Breadcrusts’, “St. Nicholas”, #6, April 1922 Source

“And over everything an awful silence” – the canyons and ruins on the moon.  From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.

For fellow lunatics: my collection of vintage moon imagery is waxing.

Don’t miss our video on how to drink the moon and the knowledge of the moon from a magic mirror.

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Carl Olof Petersen (1880-1939), Illustration pour “Jugend Magazine”, 1920. Swedish illustrator, painter and woodcut artist.

The rising sun says to enjoy your sweet Eastern bunny before it melts.  From Nebelspalter, 1933.

Not enough to share: my modest collection of vintage chocolate.

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Champion of the sneeze cartoon! – Carl Johann Rostrup (1875 - 1926)

Originally from Baltimore, Carl Rostrup became staff artist for Richmond’s morning paper, The Times-Dispatch, in 1902. During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, Rostrup created educational graphics for the Virginia Health Bulletin. 

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Carlo Farneti (Italian, 1892-1961, b. Naples, Italy) - Les Hiboux XXVIII (The Owls XXVIII), Illustration for 1935 edition of Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), 1934. Drawings

Le Larousse pour tous: nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique - 1909 - via Internet Archive

The Hour of Death, Alfred Kubin, 1900. #alfredkubin #thehourofdeath #1900 #1900s #illustration #austrianartist #symbolism #penandink #wash #spritzechnik #onkatasterpaper #dietodesstunde #maxmorgensterncollection #kubinarchiv #clock #skulls https://www.instagram.com/p/B7RCvoOAD6a/?igshid=eno51520zko7

1965 Forget Me Not Birthday Greeting Card Text Inside: Dropping in on you like this Just long enough to say Sure hope you’re going to have yourself A really perfect day! Have a Grand Year, Too!

Horror!

Illustration by German/Austrian artist, Karl Alexander Wilke (1879-1954). 1906.