
cover art by Ernest Chiriacka


cover art by Ernest Chiriacka
better image than previously posted
reprinted stories from 1934 – 1940

Ernest Chiriacka – aka Darcy – (American, 1920-2010)
The Tussle
Watercolor and ink on board
15-1/4 x 13-3/4 inches (38.7 x 34.9 cm)
Signed with pseudonym lower right

The Big Fix, paperback cover, 1960
Watercolor and gouache on board
10 x 13-3/4 inches (25.4 x 34.9 cm) (image)
Signed with pseudonym lower right
The present work is published on the cover of The Big Fix by Ed Lacy (Pyramid, 1960). It was also republished as an interior illustration in ‘The Demonstration’, Man’s Magazine, May 1964.

[background colored in by some nitwit…]
updated 12/20/23

cover art by Ernest Chiriacka
Talmage Powell, “Uneasy Lies the Headstone” (Abner Murder/Mr. Murder)
Joe Archibald, “One Meat Brawl” (Dizzy Duo)
William Hellman (given as by William Hellmann), “A Word to the Wiseguy”
Emil Petaja, “Welcome Home to Nightmare”
Bill Morgan, “Death Paints a Poster”
E.C. Marshall, “Murder after the Fact”
William Rough, “Say Hello to Satan”
Lewis A. Keppen, “No License to Slay”
Berna Morris, “Station K-I-L-L Calling”
Rex Whitechurch, “Homicide’s Crimson Chariot” (Jerry Carlton)