In Weird Tales, Brundage illustrates Robert E. Howard's Queen of the Black Coast, a story about Conan the Barbarian.

Margaret Brundage, born Margaret Hedda Johnson (December 9, 1900 - April 9, 1976) was a American illustrator and painter who is remembered chiefly for having illustrated the pulp magazine Weird Tales. Working in pastels, she created most of the covers for Weird Tales between 1933 and 1938. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (573x844, 141 KB)The cover of Weird Tales issue May 1934 featuring Queen of the Black Coast, one of Robert E. Howards original stories about Conan the Barbarian. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (573x844, 141 KB)The cover of Weird Tales issue May 1934 featuring Queen of the Black Coast, one of Robert E. Howards original stories about Conan the Barbarian. ... This page is about the fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine and its heirs. ... Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories published mainly in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ... Queen of the Black Coast is one of the original stories by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian, first published in Weird Tales in 1934. ... Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet. ... December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1900 (MCM) is a common year starting on Monday. ... April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... An illustration of a character from a story An Illustration is a visualisation such as drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and appeal to a wider international audience, this article may require cleanup. ... Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as the pulps ) were inexpensive fiction magazines. ... This page is about the fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine and its heirs. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Brundage was born in Chicago, Illinois around the turn of the century, and went to the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. She worked as a fashion illustrator before becoming the chief cover artist for Weird Tales. In 1927, she married Myron Brundage; the marriage was not successful, and ended in divorce in 1939. Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden) Official website: http://egov. ... The Chicago Academy of Fine Arts is one former name of the Art Institute of Chicago. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Over the period from 1933 to 1939, Brundage was the chief illustrator, first for Oriental Tales, later known as Magic Carpet; then, most famously, of Weird Tales. She was the most frequently appearing cover artist on Weird Tales during her stint with the magazine; towards the end, her chief competitor was Virgil Finlay. Her art frequently featured damsels in distress in various states of partial nudity. Brundage is tentatively credited with introducing whipping as a theme in the cover illustrations of pulp magazines. A magic carpet is a carpet that would transport persons who were on it instantaneously or quickly to their destination. ... Virgil Finlay (1914-1971) was a pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. ... A poster for The Perils of Pauline (1914). ...

Signed as "M. Brundage", many of the magazine's readers were unaware that the artist was a woman. During the period, she created a total of 67 covers for Weird Tales. After 1938, when the magazine's editorial offices moved from Chicago to New York City, a new 'decency' standard was imposed (primarily through the efforts of then-mayor of New York Fiorello La Guardia) on pulp magazines sold and newsstands and the nude or semi-nude young women that had been the primary subjects of Brundage and Finlay's covers for the magazine were out. Brundage still continued to contribute occasional pieces throughout the 1940s; her last cover for the magazine appeared in 1953. According to L. Sprague De Camp, she used her daughters as models. Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (December 11, 1882–September 20, 1947) was the Mayor of New York from 1934 to 1945. ... // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... L. Sprague de Camp (centre) with Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov Lyon Sprague de Camp, (November 27, 1907-November 6, 2000) was a science fiction and fantasy author born in New York City. ...

She continued to draw after her relationship with the magazine ended, and appeared at a number of science fiction conventions and art fairs, where some of her original period works were stolen. She continued to work until her death. Science fiction conventions are gatherings of the community of fans (called science fiction fandom) of various forms of science fiction and fantasy. ...

L. Sprague De Camp described the typical subject of her pictures as "naked heroines being tortured, raped, and disemboweled"; Forrest J. Ackerman similarly wrote of "Margaret Brundage, with her titillating pulchrinudes on the covers of Weird Tales: naked ladies being sacrificed, semi-clad heroines being menaced by all manner of monstrous beings." Forrest J Ackerman (born November 24, 1916) is a legendary science fiction fan and collector of science fiction-related memorabilia. ...

References

• L. Sprague De Camp. Lovecraft: a Biography (Doubleday, 1975) ISBN 0385005784
• Ray Russell, "Of Human Brundage". Playboy, Feb 1991 (vol 38, no. 2) pp. 106-109

H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. ... Classic Playboy logo. ...

External links

• Mrs. Margaret Brundage
• An Interview with Margaret Brundage
• Margaret Brundage at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database