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“Flora's illustrations have that almost impossible-to-attain quality that commercial work rarely has: his drawings and designs are still interesting and lively today.” — |
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The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora
Author: Irwin Chusid
Designed by Laura Lindgren
Image Restorations by Barbara Economon
THE MISCHIEVOUS ART OF JIM FLORA was the first comprehensive collection of record album and music art by Flora, featuring over 225 images. The book contains his most spectacular covers for Columbia and RCA Victor, plus rarely seen 1940s and '50s illustrations from Columbia's Coda trade journal and magazine work from the period. The book includes two interviews with Flora, as well as reminiscences by his friends Gene Deitch and Alex Steinweiss, and a celebratory essay by Shag. The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora also presents the first-ever reprinting of his fabled Little Man Press illustrations and woodcuts (1939-1942).
Published by Fantagraphics Books
Format: 11" x 10" soft cover with flaps
180 pages, full-color
ISBN: 1-56097-600-4
List Price: $34.95
Publication: October 2004; second edition (revised) February 2007
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The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora
Authors: Irwin Chusid and Barbara Economon
Designed by Laura Lindgren
THE CURIOUSLY SINISTER ART OF JIM FLORA presents rascally and rarely seen fine art and artifacts from Flora's private collection. Fans of Flora's LP covers, kid-lit, and Mischievous Art offerings will marvel at these eye-boggling treasures, which include paintings, watercolors, sketches, woodcuts and all manner of visual genius. Flora's style is cartoonish, evoking childhood nostalgia and dereliction of adult responsibility. There are clowns and kitty cats, grinning faces and beaming suns. But Flora did not restrain his darker impulses. His montages are dotted with guns and knives and fang-baring snakes. Muggers run amok, demons frolic with rouged harlots, and Flora's characters suffer – that is, are afflicted by the artist with — severe disfigurement. The Curiously Sinister Art features over 240 images, including 1940s Columbia Records printed matter exhibiting Flora's visual pranks; magazine illos from the 1940s-1960s; relics from his late-1930s academic years, photos, and personal keepsakes.
Published by Fantagraphics Books
Format: 11" x 10" soft cover with flaps
180 pages, full-color
ISBN: 1-56097-805-3
List Price: $34.95
Publication: February 2007
