re:
>Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:24:52 +1100
>From: "Rene Ribic" <
rribic@optusnet.com.au>
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Australian PBs & Robert
McGinis
>
>I should point out for those who don't know that
McGinis is the very
>prolific cover artist who did very many of the
paperback covers for
>writers such as Richard S Prather, Carter Brown,
Edward S Aarons, Brett
>Halliday, the Travis McGee books, the Gold Medal
editions of Richard
>Stark, as well as countless others including many of
the most famous
>authors, books & series' especially for Signet,
Dell & Gold Medal. He
>also did some very famous movie posters from the
'60's such as for
>"Barbarella" & the Bond movies. He's a very
important if often
>overlooked part of the history of hardboiled
literature & helped to sell
>Buddha knows how many extra copies of these books
with his paintings of
>impossibly beautiful, sexy & elegant femmes
fatale.
Rene -
If you like McGinnis, you simply *must* get the following,
which has been out about a year, now:
TITLE: PAPERBACK COVERS OF ROBERT MCGINNIS ISBN: 0966677641
Publisher: POND PRESS Publish Date: 010404 Author: Scott, Art
Binding: TRADE PAPER List Price: USD 29.95
Publisher's
Review
"Robert McGinnis is one of the most admired, influential and
prolific illustrators working today, best known for his
astonishing career as a paperback cover artist. His first
covers appeared in 1958, and since then he has painted over
one thousand of them, for all the major publishers in all
genres. He is most renowned for his portraits of women. The
elegant, sexy and intelligent McGinnis Woman is as
distinctive and recognizable as was the Gibson Girl in the
early 1900's. McGinnis was elected to the Society of
illustrators Hall of Fame in 1993." "McGinnis's paperback
work is avidly sought after by collectors. However,
collecting McGinnnis covers has been a huge challenge, not
only because of the unprecedented volume of his work, but
because he was often uncredited, he worked in a wide variety
of styles, and many illustrators imitated him. No reliable
checklist has been available until now. This book provides a
complete and definitive bibliography documenting McGinnis's
work as a paperback cover artist. With the artist's
cooperation, it has been compiled by two long-time fans and
collectors of his work, who began comparing notes and
exchanging checklists in 1985." "Over 250 paperback covers
are reproduced in this book, along with many examples of the
original art, model photos and preliminary sketches which
afford an inside-the-studio look at the artist's working
methods. The
parade of covers - mysteries, westerns, romances,
bestsellers - is a capsule graphic survey of trends in
American mass market fiction over the last forty years, and
of the extraordinary career of a gifted illustrator, Robert
McGinnis."--BOOK JACKET.
There is a hc available, but the tpb is well-made.
[Also, by going to AddAll http://www.addall.com/ (and
thanks to whoever cited that) or other search engines, you
can probably get it cheaper....]
--- Bill Bowers | <BBowers@One.net> | mailto:BBowers@One.net
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