Earl Mayan

Earl Mayan (1916 – December 12, 2009) was an American illustrator whose early career spanned the era of pulp magazines to the post World War II years alongside Norman Rockwell at The Saturday Evening Post.

From 1954 to 1961, he painted ten Saturday Evening Post covers and illustrated many of the stories that appeared as inside the magazine.

[1] Chris Mullen, creator of the website The Visual Telling of Stories, wrote of Mayan's art, "He managed great visual invention, possessed excellent powers of drawing, and entertained his readers with an inventive set of references within the images."

After the war, his illustrations appeared often in "The Saturday Evening Post" and the "Reader's Digest Condensed Books".

[2] Mayan also worked for Grosset & Dunlap, Argosy, Bantam Books and Random House.