Edd Cartier Pen-and-Ink Illustration for 'Ole Mother Methuselah', Astounding Science Fiction 1950

Interior illustration by Edd Cartier for 'Ole Mother Methuselah,' published in Astounding Science Fiction, January 1950. Rendered in Cartier's signature crosshatched pen-and-ink style, the scene depicts a young boy wielding a slingshot, wrist bound, confronting a snarling, whiskered feline creature with bared fangs. The composition conveys tense close-quarters conflict, characteristic of Cartier's expressive linework and dynamic storytelling for Street & Smith's pulp fiction line.