This week on ‘picture postals’, the man himself. As seen on a series of postcards issued in France under the ‘Dessin Jullian’ imprint, by artist Bernard Jullian and presumably self-published. I’ve been unable to discover dates or any biographical data on Jullian, but the cards appear to be classed as vintage — so perhaps before 2000. These are part of a colour postcard series that included portraits-from-photos of Bram Stoker, Arthur C. Clarke, Poe and other famous writers of the imagination. I’m usually averse to portraits-from-photos, which are nearly always so obviously portraits-from-photos, but here the artist has evoked something of Lovecraft’s arch intelligence.

Also R.E. Howard, from the same series…