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Here's another rising artist from the mid/late 1970's and 1980's, by the name of George Chastain. He did some really beautiful covers, and parodies of Classic Hollywood-era movie posters, pseudo-pulp magazine covers for the likes of THE SHADOW and DOC SAVAGE, and Frazetta hardcover dust jackets as if they were for actual Edgar Rice Burroughs or Robert E.Howard books.
With the twist that...
Chastain would replace the human faces in these images with funny animal characters, in a Disney or Tex Avery style. Ornately detailed airbrushed work, true to the Classic Hollywood / pulp era, but very fun and clever parody. The animated characters he morphed them into are also of the same Classic Hollywood era.

Some examples at :


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I think my favorites are his "The Waddler" pulp cover (with a duck version of The Shadow)
And 2 covers of "Doc Sausage: The Hog of Bronze" (Substittuting a Porky-like pig for Doc Savage)
The film-noir poster version of "The Maltese Mallard" is one I have on the wall and get a frequent chuckle from.

Along with funny animal versions of other pop culure of the era, such as a Coca Cola ad, and movie stills of anthropomorh-ized actors, such as a movie still of Bela Lugosi on the soundstage of "Dracula" but re-envisioned as a duck actor. photographed on the set of "Drakula".

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In Steranko's MEDIASCENE magazine, issue 25, Feb 1977, Chastain was cover-featured with a lengthy article and many images of his art.
Chastain was part of the era of limited edition prints from 1975-1983, many of them were advertised in that period.
I purchased quite a few, some of them from Chastain personally, and never cease to enjoy having them on my walls.

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Into the 1980's, Chastain did some covers for ALIEN ENCOUNTERS, and a HALLOWEEN HORROR issue for Eclipse.

He also did some story illustrations for TWILIGHT ZONE MAGAZINE issues in the 1981-1984 period, among art for other SF , horror and pulp magazines and fanzines. In recent years, he also does an increasing amount of photomalipulations for convention posters, pseudo-pulp magazine covers, and other tributes.

I was surprised to see on Chastain's site that he was also commissioned in 1980 to do about a dozen storyboard illustrations for a movie version of Stephen King's "The Mist".
https://egorschamber.com/fanfolio/monsterpieces/
The film was not actually made until 2007.

Over the last 30 years or so, Chastain still attends conventions and is active in fandom. As shown at the links, occasionally doing posters for various conventions.