If you’ve run out of excellent animated shorts to watch on YouTube, and you’re done with entertaining cat videos, may we suggest delving into Pete Beard’s Video Channel, which includes many a tribute to Unsung Heroes of Illustration?
For me, it’s a channel I’ve come back to on a regular basis, the more so since becoming available through my TV, his series highlighting the work of many artists, many celebrated, many little known.
Art deco, art nouveau, children’s books, pulp, counter-culture, popular 20th-century advertisement and poster artists, and comic artists have all been featured, across over 200 episodes, and counting. It includes plenty of tributes to “Unsung Heroes of Illustration”, often overlooked by arts academia.
“I had always thought that many illustrators from the past got nothing like the attention they deserved,” Pete writes, “so I decided to make some videos about a few of these almost-forgotten talents.
“The Unsung Heroes series was originally intended to be about illustrators from what’s known as the golden age of illustration. But I soon realised that meant ignoring many early 20th-century illustrators who, strictly speaking, didn’t fit that description. So I compromised and ended up with parameters of those born between 1850 and 1910.”
Inspiring and addictive, Pete Beard’s Video Channel is definitely an invaluable and useful resource for illustration fans you should not miss out on.
• Check out and subscribe to “Pete Beard’s Video Channel”, incorporating “Unsung Heroes of Illustration” here on YouTube
Check out this portfolio of Pete’s own illustration work here
If you have come here by mistake looking for the late, acclaimed photographer Peter Beard, his website is at peterbeard.com
With thanks to Peter Gray for suggesting this WebFind
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The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “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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