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Browsing through this beautiful gallery of children's book illos from the '20s, I keep thinking about the fact that these were all created during a period just before Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and a period of dramatic cultural change.

Boing Boing: August 15, 2004 - August 21, 2004 Archives 2004

Here are some very nice kids 'books illos from the collection of children’s author Kathleen W. Deady.

- Boing Boing 2005

AND: Ullman's "illos" transformed Savage's column, making it seem unsleazy and rather cheerful.

"I'm biased, sure, but I think that the illos I did brought a little something extra to the column..." Ann Althouse 2007

AND: Ullman's "illos" transformed Savage's column, making it seem unsleazy and rather cheerful.

Archive 2007-12-01 Ann Althouse 2007

I am certain that a movie still/comic illos/Giger painting was used as direct reference.

Book Cover Smackdown! Fear The Alien vs. Horns vs. Horus Heresy: Nemesis 2009

The serial is up to 44 parts now, and the first 36 illos have been combined into a new, expanded, 6X6 version of the tile game (we'll do the 7x7 soon, then the 8x8 and finish up with a 9x9 incorporating all 81!).

Boing Boing 2009

At some point I would love for Brad to do some interior illos for a future book for me.

ConDFW -- Wow, what a weekend! p_n_elrod 2009

The illos are always apropos, definitely representing images from my story, and yet they are characteristic of the translator's country (for example, the version of Walker in the illustrations of the Polish translation of "Tk'Tk'Tk" looks Polish to me).

"Firewall" in Chinese 2009

I did a few illos for them, way back -- not the best gig I ever had.

Saying No to a Publisher jimhines 2010

I dreamt I was flipping through an issue of Space & Time with David Barr Kirtley as we critiqued the illos and decided which we liked best.

My April 2010 Tweet Dreams scottedelman 2010