The Saturday Evening Post has been around since 1821. And in those 200 years (off and on), they’ve given us some great crime fiction and amazing illustrations. Originally I was going to just post an article about James R. Bingham, an illustrator who worked with The Saturday Evening Post often in the 50s, and illustrated many Perry Mason short stories for The Post. But, the more artwork I saw, the more I just want to put all of the artists in one post. This one will still have a lot of Bingham though.
So here we’ve got work by Austin Briggs (above), Bernard D’Andrea, Hy Rubin, Ken Riley, etc. It’s more than just a magazine Norman Rockwell and Leyendecker did cover art for.
Before we get into it, here’s a list of some stories that started on the pages of The Post.
- Dark Passage by David Goodis
- Counterfeit for Murder by Rex Stout (the above Austin Briggs illustration)
- True Grit by Charles Portis
- Death of a Demon by Rex Stout
- Ice Palace by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Miss Temptation by Kurt Vonnegut
- Last Day of the Furlough by J.D. Salinger
- Kill Now – Pay Later by Rex Stout
- The Black Cat (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe (back when it was called the United States Saturday Post)
- Frame-up For Murder by Rex Strout
