A 2013 poster by Ștefan Georgescu to promote Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”
A project by Prague-based Kino Svetozor, the Terry Posters collection consists of over 20,000 posters from Czechoslovakia between 1930 and 1989, many offered for sale. There’s amazing art represented here by a huge range of influential talents,, including Karel Vaca, Milan Grygar and Zdeněk Ziegler.
Barbarella by Karel Saudek
Gozilla, King of Monsters (1956). Art by František Kardaus
The Witches of Eastwick (1989). Art by Zdeněk Vlach
Bullitt (1971). Art by Antonín Sládek
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1986). Art by Milan Pecák
From the early 1950s until 1989, leading Czechoslovak graphic artists devoted their time to the creation of film posters. It was only in Czechoslovakia and Poland that graphic artists worked on film posters to such an extent.
All posters – and not just film posters, either – are original prints from the year stated in the poster description – no copies or reprints,and the site is well organised in several ways, enabling you to search by genre, decade, film actor featured, and by poster artist, too.
It’s a hugely entertaining resource, but I’d put some time aside to browse!
• Terry Posters is at www.terry-posters.com
With thanks to Van Reid
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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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