[paw broon]

Yesterday I visited an old (in both senses of the word) friend, an artist, at his new studio in Glasgow.  This guy is the pulp fan and collector I've mentioned previously and he also knows a bit about old comic artists.  I was going on about a pile of old Dell comics and an IW Red Mask that I'd recently bought and how I'd found some Kinstler stories in them.  I was already a bit of a fan and was telling him how good this guy looked.  Without a word, Russell got up and went to his bookcase and pulled down a weighty tome which he handed to me.  And there was JVJ's Kinstler hardback in all its glory.  Great book, full of gorgeous samples of his work and simply loads of background information.  So, it's thank you to Russell for knowing what I was talking about and to JVJ, for producing such an excellent piece of work.

[josemas]

I first became ware of Kinstler a bit over three decades ago when I was at the Kubert School.  I was really getting into illustrators and picked up a copy of Susan Meyers' book on James Montgomery Flagg.  Kinstler and Flagg were good friends and Kinstler was interviewed extensively by Meyer for the book. Examples of his work were also shown. 
After that I started picking up his comics when I ran across them.  He seemed to have two styles as I got more into studying him.  There was the lush pen and ink style that was influenced by Flagg (seen at its best in those black and white inside covers he did for Avon) and the Kubert influenced style, with more brush work, that seemed to pop up in a lot of the Dell westerns I ran across.
I've had Jim's Kinstler book sitting over in my "to be read" stack for some time now but just haven't got around to reading it yet (although I've looked over the many great illos in it extensively).

Best

Joe

[JVJ]

If you would read it, Joe,
you would understand the different styles...

FWIW.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

[josemas]

Moving it up toward the top of the stack Jim.

Best

Joe