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To help you with your holiday shopping, we've put together a miscellany of favorite titles, new books, sale items, and stocking stuffers. Our Cyber Sale went out before Thanksgiving and you can see that here, and the Omnibus items that didn't make the email here. Christmas Deadlines: Ever cautious, here once again our estimates of when to order to get delivery before Christmas. East Coast: Dec. 8th. West Coast: Dec. 15th. Using Priority Rush Service: Dec 20th. These are educated guesses, so none of these dates are guaranteed. Best bet is to order early to give the postal service a few extra days to deliver. Not sure what to get the book lover on your list? A Bud's Art Books Gift Certificate is a wonderful solution! Our new catalog with an awesome Sanjulian cover is now available for download. |
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BUD'S ART BOOKS GIFT CERTIFICATE Shopping for presents? Unsure of your choice? Bud's Art Books Gift Certificates are always the perfect gift! We'll ship Certificates anywhere in the world at no charge, and are happy to add your own personal message. Available in $10.00 increments—just select how many increments of $10 you want in the quantity box and specify in the comments field when you check out how you want this applied (for example: a quantity of four $10 increments for two $20 certificates). Note: Shipping charges on Gift Certificates will be refunded after order is filled....More. Item Code: GIFTC $10.00 |
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SPECTRUM FANTASTIC ART QUARTERLY MAGAZINE #2 Ed Binkley Signed Bookplate 1000-copy print run. Bookplate illustrated and signed by Ed Binkley, limited to 250 numbered copies. Our Highest Recommendation. Introduction by Cathy and Arnie Fenner. Jeffrey Catherine Jones is the featured artist in an all new 39-page examination. George Pratt, Todd Adams and model Carol Zaloom share their memories and we are treated to page after page of paintings and new details of Jones’ life and work. Also: Fantastic art painter Ed Binkley is interviewed and featured on the cover. His work is stunning. Donato Giancola explains how inspiration shows up for him, with wonderful examples from Lord of the Rings paintings. Gregory Manchess shares insights and pointers. Sara Frazetta shares memories of her grandfather Frank Frazetta. Art Director Irene Gallo offers tips to illustrators in a 20-questions feature. Arnie writes poignant memoriams for James Bama, Neal Adams, Ken Kelly, George Perez, Tim Sale and Marshall Arisman "six masterful members of our art community who left us in 2022." Spectrum/Underwood Books, 2022. ...More. Item Code: SPEQ02 Soft Cover, 12x12, 76pg, Partial Color $25.00 |
| See our site for Volume One of the Quarterly Magazine, and previous volumes. |
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SANJULIAN Master of Fantasy Art Limited, 1000. Completely Revised New Edition. Our Highest Recommendation. Introduction by Joe Jusko. Legendary Spanish painter and illustrator Sanjulian is renowned the world over for his incredible covers for Famous Monsters of Filmland, Vampirella, Conan, Eerie and Creepy as well as book covers, posters, private commissions and much more. This lavishly illustrated book celebrates the full breadth of Sanjulian's careerHundreds of beautiful full color paintings and pencil sketches, unpublished illustrations plus rarely seen early work and many nudes, along with exclusive photos and artwork from his personal archives. Very impressive: a massive 300-page oversized art book packed with wonderful artwork. - Bud. Book Palace, 2022. ...More. Item Code: SANJMH Hard Cover, 10x13, 312pg, Full Color $89.00 |
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VISIONS OF BEAUTY By Kinuko Craft Includes our special full color bookplate, signed by Kinuko! Limited, 2000. Oversized, 296 pages. Over 300 images. Our Highest Recommendation. Collectors and lovers of Kinuko Y. Craft’s work have been waiting for the release of her first full-blown coffee table book. Here it is, with no effort spared to make it a magnificent presentation packed with full page paintings and drawings that have consumed her storied life. Visions of Beauty is magical. She is best known for her fairy tale books with new interpretations of Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Twelve Dancing Princesses, and so many more. Her passionate love of beauty, fine art and deep knowledge of art history are on display in each painting. Borsini-Burr Inc. & Imaginary Realism, 2022. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge....More. Item Code: VISBEH Hard Cover, 12x13, 294pg, Full Color $195.00 |
| Kinuko's 2023 Calendar is also available. |
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THE ART OF HADDON SUNDBLOM Closeout Price! Second Printing. Our Highest Recommendation. By Daniel Zimmer. Haddon Sundblom (1899-1976) was Coca Cola’s most prolific artist, painting subjects that ranged from pin-up bathing beauties to soda-fountain scenes. They are actively collected today. During his peak period in the 1940s, he produced half of all Coke’s advertising art, including the famous Santa everyone recognizes today. He was head of an entire illustration studio; he painted calendar art, including nudes; and he was a major influence on top artists of the time. Illustrated Press, 2022. ...More. Item Code: ARTHSH Hard Cover, 9x12, 324pg, Full Color |
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NAUGHTY AND NICE The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm New printing. Naughty and Nice presents an extensive survey of Bruce Timm's celebrated "after hours" private works. These tastefully drawn nudes, completed purely for fun, are showcased in this exquisite new release. This volume boasts over 250 full-color or line and pencil images, each one full page. It's all about sexy, nubile girls: partially clothed or fully nude, of almost every conceivable description and temperament. Girls-next-door, seductresses, vampires, girls with guns, teases...Timm blends his animation style with his passion for traditional good-girl art for an approach that is unmistakably all his own. Flesk, 2021. Mature readers. ...More. Item Code: NAUNB Soft Cover, 9x12, 256pg, Partial Color |
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FRANKLIN BOOTH SILENT SYMPHONY Our Highest Recommendation. The culmination of twenty years of publishing. The entire Flesk team poured months of research and work into making this all-new, freshly designed, 304-page volume that reprises their first book in 2002. This celebrates the life and work of Franklin Booth, who inspired artists from Berni Wrightson to Michael Kaluta. This is THE book on one of the most successful commercial artists of the early 20th century. 365 black and white and 25 color illustrations plus photos and more. Flesk, 2022....More. Item Code: FRABSS Soft Cover, 9x12, 304pg, Partial Color |
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SCRIBBLINGS 8 with Mandy Signed Signed! Highly Recommended. By Dean Yeagle. After a three year hiatus for Covid, an entirely new collection of wonderful images. Mandy goes to a nude French beach in an amazing 24-page story that is a delight. The second half of the book is the usual mix of finished full color drawings, studies and offbeat subjects, including a nude Dejah Thoris and a nude Poison Ivy, "I Am Not Harley (Quinn)," Mandy in and out of clothes, trolls, and rare animation drawings. Lots of delightful nudity. Caged Beagle, 2022. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: SCR08S Soft Cover, 8x11, 46pg, Full Color $20.00 |
| We have all eight Scribblings, and other sketchbooks from Dean, all signed. |
| Click here for more signed editions, including items from Mark Schultz, Terry Moore, Dean Yeagle, Dan Brereton and Michael Gilbert. |
Frank Frazetta |
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FRAZETTA BOOK COVER ART The Definitive Reference Deluxe Deluxe Slipcase with wrap-around art and 16 bonus pages. Our Highest Recommendation. By J. David Spurlock. This new book is devoted solely to the artist's single, most beloved venue, Book Cover Art. By focusing on this specific area, the book boasts room enough to feature every single one of Frazetta's famous and highly collectable covers, beautifully and authentically reproduced at a larger size on a page to itself. All, paperbacks from girlie publishers, Ace Burroughs covers, Conans, and far far more, are presented in chronological order, which gives readers a unique ability to follow Frazetta's evolution as an artist. Commentary and rare quotes from the artist himself. Vanguard, 2022. ...More. Item Code: FRAZBCD Hard Cover, 8x11, 184pg, Partial Color $69.95 |
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TELLING STORIES The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta Hardcover Slipcased Closeout Price! Back in stock. Our Highest Recommendation. Art by Frank Frazetta. This offers the complete Thunda and his best romance works, such as "Untamed Love" and "The Wrong Road." Plus combat tales, funny animals, White Indian, Ghost Rider covers and much, much more. Some of these stories offer some of his finest pen & ink works, with shapely women, nude statues, and lots of implied lust. Fantasy art's most popular painter was also one of the finest comic book illustrators in the pre-code 1950s. This deluxe collection exhibits the skill of a master craftsman but also provides tantalizing glimpses of where the young artist’s career would ultimately take him, into covers for Conan, Warren mags and movie posters. Hardcover in slipcase! This was the ONLY trade edition of this book. Underwood Books, 2008. ...More. Item Code: TELSH Hard Cover With Slip Case, 9x12, 192pg, Full Color |
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FANTASTIC PAINTINGS OF FRAZETTA New Printing, Highly Recommended.By David Spurlock. Afterword by Frank Frazetta Jr. J. David Spurlock started crafting this book by reviving the original million-selling 1970s mass market art book, Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta. Then he expanded and revised it to include twice as many images and presents them at a much larger coffee-table book size of 10.5 x 14.5 inches! The collection is brimming with both classic and previously unpublished works of the subjects Frazetta is best remembered for, including barbarians, beasts, and buxom beauties. Vanguard, 2020....More. Item Code: FANPFH Hard Cover, 10x15, 112pg, Full Color $39.95 |
| The deluxe edition is sold out. Click here to see more books with Frank Frazetta. |
2023 Calendars |
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Click here to see our full list of 2023 calendars. Click here for the for the Pin-Up & Adult calendars. Best to order early to avoid disappointment. |
Illustrator's Quarterly & Illustration Magazine |
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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY SPECIAL #15 Edgar Rice Burroughs Our Highest Recommendation. This special issue showcases some of the greatest art ever to grace the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, published from around the world in comics, books, magazines, posters and films, with an emphasis on Tarzan. Bill Stout interviews the amazing Joe Jusko with loads of great art; Bill also talks about assisting Russ Manning on the legendary Tarzan Sunday Page run. More with the life and work of legendary Tarzan artist and founder of the New York School of Visual Arts, Burne Hogarth. And Czech master painter Zdenek Burian and Hal Foster. Book Palace, 2021. ...More. Item Code: IQS14 Soft Cover, 9x11, 128pg, Partial Color $38.99 |
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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY SPECIAL #13 The Art of Glamour Highly Recommended. Double-sized special. An entirely new look at Glamour and Pin Up art from the 1900s on, but with emphasis on the last several decades. Billy De Vorss, Rolf Armstrong, Alberto Vargas, Enoch Bolles, Gil Elvgren, Peter Driben, to "modern day" names: Fritz Willis, Chris Achilleos, Sorayama, Patrick Nagel, Dave Stevens, Milo Manara, Robert McGinnis and many, many more. A gorgeous collection. Lots of nudity. Book Palace, 2021. Adult material. ...More. Item Code: IQS13 Soft Cover, 9x11, 144pg, Partial Color $44.99 |
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ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #78 Highly Recommended. By Dan Zimmer. This special issue is entirely devoted to the life and art of the legendary Al Dorne, one of the most successful commercial illustrators of his day. As the founder of the Famous Artists School, alongside luminaries such as Norman Rockwell, Al Parker, Austin Briggs, and more, his correspondence courses taught generations of artists the craft of illustration. Dorne's work has been beloved by comic artists for decades — he drew many of the best comic-strip style ads for the slick magazines, advertising high end product like Wurlitzer jukeboxes, Westinghouse Radios, Imperial Whisky, Frigidaire Refrigerators, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer and Sanka Coffee. Illustrated Press, 2022....More. Item Code: IL78 Magazine, 9x11, 80pg, Partial Color $15.00 |
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ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #76 Earle Bergey Our Highest Recommendation. This issue features the work of Earle Bergey, one of the most prolific and outstanding cover artists of both pulps and vintage paperbacks, but never with a book devoted to him. This is it — his career and dozens and dozens of wonderful cover creations, many from the original artwork. Including early pin-up art and nudes. Illustrated Press, 2022....More. Item Code: IL76 Magazine, 9x11, 80pg, Partial Color $15.00 |
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Stocking Stuffers |
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HEROES OF THE BLUES Card Set by Robert Crumb Highly Recommended. The legends of early blues history: Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Memphis Minnie, Charley Patton, Jaybird Coleman, Big Bill Broonzy, Barbecue Bob and many others. A bio of each musician by historian Stephen Calt is on the back. Each musician or group is lovingly drawn in full color by underground comix legend R. Crumb. These cards are printed on heavy card stock. New printing, first published in 1980!! Denis Kitchen Publishing, 2021....More. Item Code: HERBL 3x4, Full Color $11.95 |
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MORE LEGENDS OF THE BLUES Card Set by William Stout Highly Recommended. Celebrated artist/writer William Stout captures the riveting personas of 50 brilliant musicians and vocalists in this collectible boxed card set — companion to his Legends of the Blues and in the same format as R. Crumb's card sets. From famous to forgotten, all performers featured are genuine legends. Stout’s eclectic selections are exquisitely drawn in vibrant watercolor and ink, with concise biographies on the flip side of each card. Denis Kitchen Publishing, 2021....More. Item Code: MLEGB 3x4, Full Color $12.95 |
| Legends of the Blues is a matched set at $12.95. See more William Stout here. |
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OLIVIA DON'T TREAD ON ME BETTIE PAGE ENAMEL PIN Highly Recommended. Enamel Pin featuring Bettie Page in "Don’t Tread On Me". It's a full-body Bettie in nylons and heels, with a red riding crop clenched in her teeth. Don't mess with this babe!! Nice large size, red flames behind her. Our favorite design of this new set. Made of stainless steel. 1.75 inches wide x 2 inches high approximately. Olivia De Berardinis, 2021....More. Item Code: OLIVDT 1.75" x 2", Full Color $12.00 |
| More Olivia pins, playing cards, and the Bettie Page 2023 calendar can be found here. |
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TAROT The Library of Esoterica Gold-embossed, massive 520-pages. Author Jessica Hundley traces this fascinating history of Tarot, the debut volume in Taschen’s Library of Esoterica series. The book explores the symbolic meaning behind more than 500 cards and works of original art, two thirds of which have never been published outside of the decks themselves. It's the first ever visual compendium of its kind, spanning from medieval to modern, and artfully arranged according to the sequencing of the 78 cards of the Major and Minor Arcana. Taschen, 2020....More. Item Code: TARLEH Hard Cover, 7x10, 520pg, Full Color $40.00 |
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Mighty Marvel Masterworks |
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MIGHTY MARVEL MASTERWORKS: DOCTOR STRANGE Volume 1 Stories from Strange Tales #110-111, 114-129, 1963-65. Our Highest Recommendation. The first 18 stories, all by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Starting as a back-up strip in Strange Tales, second fiddle to The Human Torch/The Thing stories, Doc's psychedelic universe took on a life of its own, including a highly successful film. Here are the stories that built the Marvel Universe. First appearances of Baron Mordo; Doc's 1st cover (#20); 1st Dread Dormammu and Doc's girlfriend Clea. Marvel, 2021....More. Item Code: MMMDR01 Soft Cover, 6x9, 176pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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MIGHTY MARVEL MASTERWORKS THE BLACK PANTHER Volume 1 The Claws of the Panther Collects Fantastic Four #52-53, 56, 1961; Tales of Suspense #97-99, 1959; Captain America #100, 1968; Avengers #52, 62, 73-74, 1963; Daredevil #52, 1964; material from Fantastic Four #54, 1961. In the 1960s, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created one of the most iconic super heroes ever conceived, the regal king of the Wakandas — the Black Panther. Roy Thomas, joined by top artists including John Buscema, brought the Panther into the ranks of the Avengers and delved into his origins and backstory. From T’Challa’s first appearance and his battle with Klaw through his adventures with Captain America and his joining the ranks of the Avengers, each page in this Mighty Marvel Masterworks volume is history in the making! Marvel, 2022....More. Item Code: MMMB01 Hard Cover, 6x9, 240pg, Full Color $15.99 |
| We have 18 total Mighty Marvel titles, a bargain at $15.99 each. |
EC Archives |
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EC ARCHIVES TALES FROM THE CRYPT Volume 2 Collects #23-#28, 1951-52. Highly Recommended. EC's premier horror title is now more affordable than ever before. Six classic issues, 24 great stories by all-star creators Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Jack Kamen, Johnny Craig, Joe Orlando, Graham Ingels, and Jack Davis! This is the inspiration for the hit movie and HBO series and has become the most popular of all the EC titles. Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: ECTFC02 Soft Cover, 8x11, 216pg, Full Color |
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THE EC ARCHIVES Weird Science Volume 1 Collects #12-15 (#1-3) and #5-6. Highly Recommended. Here is the beginning of what EC was best known and best loved for: their science fiction line. These first stories are not as polished as the later ones, but they are still gems. See Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman's early work, and far more in 24 complete stories. Also featuring work by Al Feldstein, Harry Harrison, Jack Kamen, and Graham Ingles. Dark Horse, 2022. ...More. Item Code: ECAWS01 Soft Cover, 8x11, 216pg, Full Color |
| Click here for the bargain softcover series, and here for the Dark Horse hardcovers. |
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SQUA TRONT 14 Our Highest Recommendation. The latest (and possibly last) issue of the greatest magazine devoted to EC comics ever published. This issue includes unpublished interviews with Gene Colan and Russ Heath, an illustrated critical study of Atlas' Kurtzman-inspired war comics in the pre-code days (with lots of art), a Kurtzman remembrance by R.O. Blechman, an astounding reprint of The Hartford Courant's campaign against "salacious and depraved" comics, a 12 page spread of Jack Davis's Coca-Cola advertising images, and much much more. An essential historical feast for EC fans. Fantagraphics, 2022. ...More. Item Code: SQ14 Soft Cover, 8x11, 96pg, Text/Partial Color $16.99 |
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We have 22 Classic Illustrated hardcover titles originally priced at $12, now 7.95. These are all brand new hardcover copies with colorful renditions of classic stories. Most titles we have ten plus copies, but a few are low in stock and will not be re-ordered. Great all ages gifts! A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Hardcover
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Hardcover A TALE OF TWO CITIES Hardcover And many more! Click here to see them all. |
Pulp Reprints |
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DOC SAVAGE #9 Closeout Price! The Majii & The Golden Man. Recommended. By Lester Dent, writing as Kenneth Robeson. The Man of Bronze comes out swinging in these two pulp classics from 1935. Lester Dent, writing as Kenneth Robeson, pits Doc Savage against the living dead in "The Majii" while "the Golden Man" sheds light on the Doc's mysterious past. This includes the original color covers by Walter Baumhofer and Emery Clarke with historical insights from pulp scholar Will Murray. Sanctum, 2007....More. Item Code: DC09 Soft Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Text/b&w |
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THE BLACK BAT #7 Closeout Price! The Red Menace, The Black Bat's Justice. Recommended. By Norman A. Daniels writing as G. Wayman Jones, Art by Belarski and Kin Platt. First, when murder pays off in millions,"The Black Bat's Justice" snarls a corrupt killer's ingenious web of doom! Then, Tony Quinn follows the trail of Soviet saboteurs who seek to undermine America's defense effort in "The Black Bat and the Red Menace." Both stories from 1941. Golden Age Comics Bonus: The Mask returns in two illustrated adventures by Kin Platt from Exciting Comics #7 and 8. Sanctum, 2017....More. Item Code: BLB07 Soft Cover, 7x10, 112pg, Text/b&w |
| We still have many Sanctum titles on sale including Doc Savage, Nick Carter, Black Bat, The Whisperer and The Avenger. |
Bud's Cyber Sale |
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Our latest sale list just went out November 21st. See dozens of newly discounted books here, plus short-time Flash Sale titles, and newly reduced Omnibus editions. This is very own Cyber Monday Sale. |
Underwood on Sale |
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WOMEN OF WONDER Celebrating Women Creators of Fantastic Art Closeout Price! Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Cathy Fenner. Introduction by Lauren Panepinto. From the co-editor of Spectrum, a spotlight on women creators of fantastic art (traditionally seen as a largely male domain, though women have always been active participants) from Kewpie creator Rose O'Neill and pulp illustrator Margaret Brundage to Spectrum Grand Masters Diane Dillon and Kinuko Y. Craft. Underwood Books, 2015. Out of print....More. Item Code: WOMOW Soft Cover, 9x12, 128pg, Full Color |
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SHAMELESS ART 20th Century Genre and the Artist That Defined It Bargain priced, still 2010 cover price. Highly Recommended. All from the original art: Rare, completely nude ladies by famous pin-up artists Fritz Willis, Roy Best, Zoe Mozart, Gil Elvgren (who rarely did nudes), Andrew Loomis, Earl Moran, Art Sarnoff, Rolf Armstrong (several), George Petty (one nude, four just-about), Bergey, and of course, Vargas. Suggestive pin-ups by Caldwell Higgins, Bill Randal, Ted Withers, Art Frahm, 11 pieces including one nude and several great Film Fun covers by Enoch Bolles. And much more by lesser-known and unknowns. Underwood Books, 2010. Out of print. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: SHAAH Hard Cover, 10x12, 112pg, Full Color $15.00 |
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R/EVOLUTION THE ART OF JON FOSTER Hardcover Almost Gone! Recommended. Edited by Cathy and Arnie Fenner, and Irene Gallo. Jon Foster creates irresistibly dark demimondes populated by retro robots, Star Wars villains, and creepy goth-inspired creatures that recall the work of James Gurney (Dinotopia), Rick Berry, H. R. Giger, and past masters of the grotesque like Goya. Yet his work is inimitably his own, from the noirish lighting, off-kilter angles, and kinetic sense of movement to his singular technique of starting a project with oils and then scanning it into a computer to add more startling visual effects. Underwood Books, 2006. Out of Print....More. Item Code: REVOH Hard Cover, 9x12, 128pg, Full Color $35.00 |
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