Prince Valiant Artists illustrators Special #19 Limited Edition announced

By John Freeman on July 16, 2024

Book Palace Books have started taking orders for their upcoming illustrators The Prince Valiant Special limited edition – and it looks stunning.

Always a joy of a read, alway beautifully assembled, this 200-page, limited edition special issue, due for release in October, delves into the greatest comics strip created by Hal Foster, exploring its origin, the colouring process and showcase samples from original artwork and the colour proofs, many scanned at their actual size.

But that is not all: the special issue also features all the artists that followed Foster, from John Cullen Murphy to Gary Gianni and the current artist Thomas Yeates, with samples of their work scanned from their original artboards.

Other aspects of the strips creation aren’t ignored, either,. Included are interviews with Cullen Murphy who wrote the script for many years after Foster retired, Meg Nash who coloured the strip from 1991 until her father John Cullen Murphy retired in 2004, Mark Schultz the current writer and Scott Roberts the colourist since 2004… and much more.

This illustrators Special looks like one of the publisher’s best yet. A limited edition of just 1000 copies, you can preorder it now.

More like a book than a magazine, illustrators is the art quarterly devoted to the finest illustration art ever published. With its unique blend of art and insight, it guides you through the stories behind the artists and their art, with features written by some of the leading authorities on this important art form.

As well as building into an indispensable reference library, illustrators gives readers an insight into the creative process, from the initial idea to the image potentially seen by millions.

Truly fabulous artwork abounds in every issue, much of the art taken from scans of the original work.

Author: Diego Cordoba
Artists: Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy, Thomas Yeates
Publisher: Book Palace Books, due October 2024
Number of pages: 200
Format: Hard Cover; Full Colour illustrations
Size: 9″ x 11″ (216mm x 280mm)
ISBN: 9781913548629

• Order illustrators The Prince Valiant Special limited edition from The Book Palace

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.