Varga, the Esquire Years: A Catalogue Raisonne Blackwing Pencils & Accessories Written by an art historian

Written by an art historian at the National Gallery who actually took a class from Sloan at the Art Students League

Plus: Paul Karasik chats with Italian cartoonist Gipi about his Santa Maria video and animation studio

if they don't kill each other first

Space Race covers the USSR's early triumphs of space exploration on one side the USA's race to the moon on the other

The rich subject material offered by urban store windows became another abiding interest

Varga, the Esquire Years: A Catalogue Raisonne Blackwing Pencils & Accessories Written by an art historianThe first lavish, full color collection of the sensationally popular art of Alberto Vargas, whose scintillating Varga Girls became the 1940s feminine ideal. More than 250 full color illustrations. This Catalogue Raisonne reproduces every Esquire Varga girl ever printed: the gatefolds, the calendars, the military edition covers, and every piece of Esquire Varga merchandise and non Esquire advertising art by Varga 1941 1947. Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut.