Speaking of Clérisse & Smolderen, "Atomic Empire" is now out in the US, & I've heard (thx @ben_towle !) it's difficult to find samples...Here are some more random pages after the cover...





Heinrich Kley, 1913 : « Tango »

Georges Beuville, « Les Disparus de Saint-Agil », 1945

Lev Shepelev (1937-2013)

Claude Chopy, 1952

Fritz Schwimbeck (1889-1972)

Fritz Buchser (1903-1989)

Gleb Bedarev

Wilhelm Schulz, 1896

Norman Lindsay, Lysistrata, 1930

Paris, Ronald Searle

Thierry Martin

Anatoly Kokorin (1908-1987)