TALES OF VOODOO - EERIE PUBLICATIONS - 1968-1974 - Part of my emergence as an artist was giving myself permission to break the rules. I am a very sensitive, empathetic person & this combination used to freeze me up all the time. I had to spend decades desensitizing myself so I could move forward & part of that was learning to love art like this. From my previous mentality, I would be turned off by multiple things in it, now I view these covers as an expression of the wondrous depth & variety of human existence. I love the covers of these horror comics (they were magazines to get around the industry imposed Comics Code). Eerie Publications was just one of the company names of Myron Fass who at his height in the seventies produced over fifty magazines! I loved his take on horror as communicated by these covers. It was Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman, a Witch & some hot lady victim hanging out in a torture chamber, graveyard, mad scientist’s lab or dungeon, committing gruesome acts. These covers never previewed the contents - which promised extreme scenes of gruesome terror! Most of the covers here are by Bill Alexander