One Man Army: The Action Paperback Art of Gil Cohen (Men’s Adventure Library)

Product Description

ONE MAN ARMY: Don Pendleton’s Mack Bolan, “The Executioner,” applied his select skills and training to target organized crime with the intensity, fortitude, and firepower of an entire division of highly trained specialists. Bolan took on the Mafia, the KGB, and international terrorism with ruthless, relentless determination…and lethal results.
ONE MAN ARMY: Gil Cohen, veteran artist, targeted the commercial illustration market with the drive, skill, and stamina of ten painters. Creating hundreds of arresting cover images for bestsellers and paperback series of every stripe (while somehow also working as a university art teacher), Cohen was a powerhouse producer of memorable covers and a “secret weapon” of publishers who recognized that his dynamic and memorable artwork was invaluable in defining–and selling–paperback novels in a fiercely competitive marketplace.
ONE MAN ARMY: The explosive new art book from The Men’s Adventure Library, produced in full cooperation with the Artist. Exploring the incomparable talents of Gil Cohen through the unique perspective he brought to the Mack Bolan universe, ONE MAN ARMY showcases dozens of his spectacular and iconic original paintings created as cover art for the bestselling action series. A visual chronicle of the ongoing–and ever-expanding–adventures of Mack Bolan and company that spotlights Cohen’s seminal role in establishing the Bolan mythos and legend for millions of dedicated readers.
Available in softcover and as a deluxe hardcover with additional content.

About the Author

GIL COHEN has had a long career as an artist, illustrator, teacher and historical painter. He is artist fellow with the American Society of Aviation Artists and has received numerous Best of Show honors. In addition, Cohen has received two lifetime achievement awards. His clients during his sixty-year career have included: The U.S. Information Agency, The National Park Service, Paramount Pictures, Random House, Warner-Lambert and The National Guard Bureau. Cohen’s original paintings portraying events in aviation history are in public and private collections around the world. Limited-edition prints of these painting are marketed worldwide.

In his younger days, ROBERT DEIS explored various options for making a living. Among other things, he worked as a teacher, an artist, a musician, a logger in the Maine woods, a magazine writer and a state government bureaucrat. Eventually (by accident rather than design) he fell into a long-lasting career as a political consultant. Nowadays, he blogs and writes about things that interest him, such as famous quotations and men’s adventure magazines. Bob grew up in the decades when men’s adventure magazines were flourishing, but he didn’t take much notice of them until he read the 2004 book MEN’S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES IN POSTWAR AMERICA, which features the amazing art and magazine collection of Rich Oberg. That inspired him to start collecting and studying men’s adventure magazines. In 2009, he created the MensPulpMags.com blog. Through that, he met other fans of the genre, including Rich Oberg, Wyatt Doyle and Josh Alan Friedman, who all agree that what the world needs now is greater exposure to the wild, weird world of men’s adventure pulp fiction and pulp art.

WYATT DOYLE is co-founder of New Texture, and launched their publishing imprint in 2006. He assisted Georgina Spelvin in the publication of her memoir, THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT, and served as editor and publisher of BLACK CRACKER by Josh Alan Friedman for his own imprint, Wyatt Doyle Books. He is co-editor and designer of The Men’s Adventure Library series of pulp fiction anthologies. A collection of his stories illustrated by Stanley J. Zappa, STOP REQUESTED, is available from New Texture, as are his photography collections, DOLLAR HALLOWEEN, I NEED REAL TUXEDO AND A TOP HAT!, BUTY-WAVE IS NOW CLOSED FOREVER, and JORGE AMAYA DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE. A collaboration with Jimmy Angelina,