Age of Aces Desktops

We can’t stop harping on about the excellent art work that doesn’t get enough credit in our books. Frederick Blakeslee and John Flemming Gould were masters at rendering airplanes in flight and Eugene Frandzen’s painted scenes are second to none while our own Chris Kalb’s inventive designs are simply the coolest out there.

In our books the spine breaks up the tableaus—and in the interior art galleries we present the art as it was originally published. We spend some time mending the images back together to create a complete image—with a majority of our work ending up in the gutter of the book anyway. Some of these images are just so good we felt the needed to turn them into desktops for you to enjoy on your computer everyday.

The desktops have been formatted for four general aspect screen ratios: For your older monitors and laptops we have 4:3 and 5:4 and for the widescreen format of many newer laptops and monitors we have 16:9 and 16:10. This will hopefully cover most of our readers.

So, without further ado . . .

Captain Philip Strange: Strange War
Chris Kalb’s graphic design for the story splash pages recall Saul Bass at his best and make for a cool oblique design. Here we’ve picked just three of the six to present as desktops—the plane vs. pterodactyl of Scourge of the Skies; the bullseye cocarde of Cocardes of Courage; and the green flaming bombs of The Unholy Horror! All of Chris’ designs for Strange War can be seen on the Strange Design page for the book.

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4:3 or 5:4 16:9 or 16:10

Captain Philip Strange: Strange Enemies
We have more of Chris Kalb’s great splash page designs for the second volume of our Captain Philip Strange series. It was hard to pare it down to only three, so we’re throwing in a bonus wallpaper and making it four! So we have the cross-shapped daggers raining down from Devil’s Bait; Strange vs the giant black Zeppelin of Raid of The Red Reaper; the flame belching U-boat of Dromes of Hades; and the the Bat Staffel itself from Drome of the Bat Staffel! Of course you can check out all of Chris’ designs from Strange Enemies on the Strange Enemies Design page!

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4:3 or 5:4 16:9 or 16:10

 

With more to come…