James L. Mathewuse

I think that the commentary going on in the last post is really great and if you haven't read it, you should do that now. But.. in my free time browsing the internet (and watching a Sweet Valley High tape I got earlier) I was looking at some of the old, great covers of Sweet Valley High books (Debuted in my birthed year of 1983) and reminiscing about spending hours and hours and hours and hours alone as a youth reading. I always loved these covers so much, but now I feel like I'm probably going to add this guy to my list of artist critique in the upcoming Soggy Stuff #6 along with Gil Elvgren and Charles Gibson.

Painted book covers are awesome. He did some of the later Nancy Drew ones too.
Love ya,
Smog