09 April 2013

The Pulp Art of Earle Bergey

Born Earl Kulp Bergey on August 26, 1901 in Philadelphia. His father was a band director. In 1919 he began to work as an artist for a Philadelphia newspaper publisher. From 1921 to 1926 he attended night classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in 1927 he began a comic strip called Deb Days for The Philadelphia Ledger.
1935

    His first pulp magazine covers were for the spicy pin-up titles, such as Gay Book, Pep, La Paree, Bedtime, Snappy, and Brief Stories.

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