Book Palace Books are currently running preorders for illustrators Special #20, a Halloween Spooktacular, offering those placing advance orders a saving on cover price and two exclusive bonuses: a 20-page booklet featuring Graham Ingels‘ pre-EC comics work, and a Famous Monsters of Filmland giant poster magazine.
This Special issue features the dark arts of illustrators Graham Ingels, Basil Gogos, Shane Oakley, Ann Tyler, Nik Poliwko and Tom Grindberg, cooked up to perfection by editor Peter Richardson and contributors Grant Geissman, Don Vaughan, and J. David Spurlock.
In This Issue…
• Graham Ingels – Mr Horror Himself
EC historian, Grant Geissman sheds a little more light on the most reclusive of the EC gang. Reflections on a Master Artist: Don Vaughan regales us with the story of how he incurred the wrath of “Mr Horror”.
• Ann Tyler
In 1995 Don Vaughan had the privilege of interviewing one of Ingels’ loyal pupils, Ann Tyler
• Nik Poliwko – A Touch of Noir
A meet-up with the master of noir comic art who is creating waves at Warrant Publishing
• Shane Oakley –The Art of Darkness
Once seen never forgotten—the art of a master of gothic, graphic and Grand Guignol
• Tom Grindberg – Master of Light and Shade
With a stylish mix of Frazetta, Pyle and Wood, Tom’s art has been wowing fans for decades
• A Brush with Gogos – Remembering Basil Gogos
Find out more about the man who injected extra pizzazz into James Warren’s Famous Monsters of Filmland. A reminiscence by J. David Spurlock of happy times spent with his friend Basil Gogos
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. A Book Palace Books publication.
• illustrators Special #20, a Halloween Spooktacular is available to preorder here
Publisher: Book Palace Books
Number of pages: 200
Format: Hard Cover; Full Colour illustrations
Size: 9″ x 11″ (216mm x 280mm)
ISBN: 9781913548759
Code: ILLUSTRATORSHALLOW
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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.
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