Dear God, that's pretty.

So I'm talking logos with J.G. Roshell, for a new project, and we're poking around through Google Image Search over some early 20th Century approaches, and I hit this, and it just knocks me out. It's by F.G. Cooper, and I've seen his work before—he's usually terrific, both at type design and at drawing—but this one is just arrestingly good. So I had to throw it up here.

[And my mind tells me that Walter Simonson was playing around with Cooper-style type design in his "Captain Fear" backup story or maybe in a Weird War Tales short he did (or both), but my copy of The Art of Walter Simonson has neglected to be filed under S, W or A, so I can't check. But I'm willing to bet Walter's pretty familiar with Cooper's design work.]

More considered blogging will happen once I get another script done—I've got a couple of reviews I'd like to write up, and some old projects that I want to show off but have to get the artists' permission—but in the meantime, I thought I'd throw this up.

It's gorgeous, isn't it?