EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 13 © 2015 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

6 ABOVE: Wraparound cover for the never published comic ‘Tor Love Bettie’ number 2, 1995. FACING PAGE: Katy Perry illustration done for Rolling Stone for their reviews section and rendered in the manner of the artist’s kitschy aesthetics. the printing). In the ‘70s he discovered Burne Hogarth’s ‘Dynamic Figure Drawing’, a book that gave aspiring artists a lesson on drawing in Hogarth’s own arcane and rather exaggerated style. Along with Hogarth (one of the Tarzan artists for the colour Sunday newspaper strips) Mitch also discovered comic book artists such as Bernie Wrightson (who back then drew Swamp Thing ) and Barry Smith (who drew Conan ). These three artists would be his main source of inspiration and got him drawing pictures of sword-wielding barbarians in impossible OTT poses. After graduating from high school, Mitch moved to Chicago to attend art school. Luckily, to study art you don’t have to be smart.Whennot seeing every movie released back in the day and making a few bucks moving furniture around, Mitch spent a year at the “do whatever you want” school of the Art