His personal life is obfuscated by a combination of time's grime and his own desire for privacy and outlandish cover stories. His best book productions feature twenty to a hundred illustrations each, and he garnered several awards for design and illustration.

With everything from children's classic tales to cookbooks to treatises on witchcraft to mainstream fiction to literature (including Steinbeck, Hemingway and Voltaire), the publishing industry relied on Mahlon Blaine often. He painted, but he is best known for pen and ink – an uncanny artistic master of Erotica and Exotica who lived for decades in cheap hotels and borrowed rooms, acutely observing humanity while wielding pens and brushes dipped in wit and wry. In two thousand drawings published between 19, illustrator Mahlon Blaine revealed his subjects – from Demons to Deities, Maylasians to Martians, Biology to Biography, Lasciviousness to Literature. Click here to see some of what's inside this volume! One of Mahlon Blaine's visual masterworks, Nova Venus is reprinted here in it's entirety for the first time. This is the first line of the poem Nova Venus. All life loved and laughed, and begot new life in tender play. INFINITELY GRACIOUS, radiantly beautiful, Aphrodite rose from the foam. Chesley Awards, World Fantasy for Best Dark Fantasy four time winner, World Fantasy Best Body of Work, and World Fantasy Best Artist (the Howard). Many of Blaine's works create a delightfully creepy effect.'Īuthor and illustrator Winner of The Deathrealm Award, The International Horror Critic's Guild Award, 4 A.S.F.A. 'THE OUTLANDISH ART OF MAHLON BLAINE is an incredible and widely varied collection of a unique artist with a distinctive, gritty style. I am happy to see this fine volume in print.' You have presented his work in chronological order, which shows his development over the years, giving us an insight into his imaginative art. 'This is an overdue recognition of Blaine's fine eye for details in his drawings.

Click here to see some of what didn't make it into this volume! This volume samples Mahlon Blaine's unique artistic visions, from his grand emergence in the roaring 20's through his declining years in the swinging 60's. Sadly like so many artists before him who have given us so much, Blaine died penniless and mostly forgotten in January of 1969. The body of work he produced between 19 was nothing short of phenomenal but after 1931 his output became increasingly sporadic. Within a short time his work was published in everything ranging from children's books and mainstream magazines to erotic portfolios. In 1923 Mahlon Blaine burst upon the art scene with striking works of imagination and vision.

Mahlon Blaine by Roland Trenary