Joe Tillotson

• Born 1905-01-30 · Died 1959-09-01

Joe Tillotson graduated from Greenville High School in 1923, and then spent two years attending art classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. He then went to work for a Chicago-based advertising agency, supplementing his income by selling illustrations to pulp magazines. Reportedly to maintain his reputation in the advertising world, he signed them with his maternal grandfather's name, "Robert Fuqua". During the 1930s and 1940s, Robert Fuqua worked extensively for publisher Ziff-Davis, where he was mostly associated with the sci-fi magazine *Amazing Stories*. Between 1938 and 1951, he painted eighty color covers for this magazine. In 1949, he became a story illustrator for the Ziff-Davis magazines *Other Worlds* and *Imagination*, finally signing with his own name, Tillotson. From 1949 until the late 1950s, Tillotson was the artist for the 'Our Bible in Pictures' feature that ran in the David C. Cook magazine [Sunday Pix](app://series/10580).