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Wallace Polsom

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Collage maker. Art lover. “Any sufficiently advanced art form is indistinguishable from child’s play.” — 03 Jul 2021 https://wallacepolsom.com/

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · Apr 13

Note to potential new followers: I block what I view as “X-rated” accounts, because I don’t want my name on re-posts appearing in such contexts, but I do post art that others, perhaps, might view as “R-rated.” Which is to say, please do your research, i.e., browse the archive, before you sign up.

Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 51m

Back in 2016, a follower of my site, wallacepolsom.com, asked me if I had any advice to improve their collages, & though I had only been making collages for 4 years at that point, I couldn't resist:

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All I did was describe what was and still is my process.

Enjoy!

Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 2h

Peter Saxon, “The Darkest Night” (Paperback Library, 1967), with uncredited, seasonally appropriate cover art. ;-) “The devil-driven worshipers of Kali sacrifice a young woman to their evil goddess of sorcery.” Freshly scanned by me.

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 2h

“I dreamed I bowled them over in my maidenform bra” (1961). Lovely, vaguely surreal evocation of a bowling alley here.

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Real Detective Tales, August-September 1925, with unexpectedly painterly, imaginative fantasy cover art by Raymond James Stuart (1882-1970).

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 4h

Detective Tales, February 1941, with cover art by Rafael DeSoto (1904-1992).

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Drawing by Jeffrey Catherine Jones.

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 17h

Amazing Stories, April 1930, with cutesy cover art by Leo Morey depicting a scene from the story, “The Conquest of the Earth,” by Isaac R. Nathanson.

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 17h

Back in 2012, I made myself some simple bookmarks using various Sci-Fi digest illustrations by Jeffrey Jones, published from 1967 to 1975. It’s easy. Just print the second image on photo-paper or some such, cut along the thin guidelines, done.