Let’s take a quick break to make sure everyone reading this is living up to BYU standards. Please compare yourself to the righteous people pictured in this informational poster.

I’m very disappointed in all of you. Where’s your sports jacket, Mister? And I don’t see enough Aquanet in that hair, Sister!

Another thing I found a lot of in Sunstone’s closets was old magazine art, which apparently never found its way back to the artist.

For example, this one, which turned into the cover of issue 109 in March 1998.

For most of the magazine’s run, we only had enough money to print our interior pages in black and white, which is why much of the art I found was so monochromatic. For example, this image, which illustrated a Robert Kirby article in which a deacon accidentally dumps the contents of his sacrament tray into a congregant’s lap. (One more reason to not sit on the front row.)

Or this one, which was about some sad people. (They had probably fallen under the influence of Diet Coke, which is the fifth step down the road to apostasy.)

I also found some original art from some of Sunstone’s legendary cartoonists like Calvin Grondahl. This is an early cartoon, from his first book, Freeway to Perfection, which Sunstone published in 1978. I did this to so many people on my mission.

And here’s a later one, which is still spot on.

But the art that amazed me most was this triptych that I have seen nowhere in the back issues of the magazine. Former Sunstone Elbert Peck told me that it may have been from a Sunstone-sponsored art show.

Now, this last one is in color and has lots of copy space at the top, so I’m assuming it was meant for the cover. But it was never printed. Possibly because mouths and ears are weird. But it remains a prized part of Sunstone’s permanent art collection.