![Life magazine cover illustration by F.W. Read, March 17, 1904](https://i2.wp.com/www.adtothebone.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/lifemars1000m.jpg?fit=625%2C739)
AS USUAL.
“Let me know when we get to Mars.”
“We passed Mars ten planets ago, ma’am.”
This early cartoon/comic/illustration/panel is weird, wonderful and a work of art. It’s as if Jules Verne and Mark Twain had a baby, and I dig it.
The Artist is F.W. Read, but there is scant info online except for a few other pieces of work and that he/she studied in Paris at Académie Julian in 1891. If you know more, please let me know!