EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 25 © 2019 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

1 Cover Image: Manara Illustrators The Book Palace Jubilee House Bedwardine Road Crystal Palace London SE19 3AP Email: IQ@bookpalace.com Web: www.bookpalace.com Contact GW: gw@bookpalace.com Tel: 020 8768 0022 (From overseas +44 20 8768 0022 ) Publisher: Geoff West Editor Emeritus: Peter Richardson Editor & Designer: Diego Cordoba Consultant Editors: Norman Boyd, David Ashford Feature Writers: Diego Cordoba, Peter Richardson and Mitch O’Connell Website: Paul Tanner Subscriptions & Distribution: David Howarth Advertising: ads@bookpalace.com illustrators ISBN 978-1-90708178-1 ISSN 2052-6520 Issue Number Twenty-Five Spring 2019 Copyright © 2019 by The Book Palace Ltd. All text and artwork copyright is vested with the respective creators and publishers. None of the material within these pages may be reproduced without the written consent of illustrators or the aforementioned copyright holders. The images reproduced within these pages are for research purposes and all efforts have been made to ensure their historical accuracy. illustrators is published quarterly. Back issues £20 each plus postage 4 issue subscriptions UK £55 POST FREE includes 4 free digital issues EU/USA £70 POST FREE includes 4 free digital issues ROW £75 POST FREE includes 4 free digital issues Available in the USA from budplant.com Trade Orders : IQ@bookpalace.com Printed in China by Prolong Press Ltd The opinions expressed in illustrators are those of the writers, and are not necessarily those of the editor and publishers. The accuracy of the authentication of all images is the responsibility of the contributors. ISSUE TWENTY-FIVE EDITORIAL This is our 25th issue, which means it’s time for our Silver anniversary, and who better to tell us about the creation of illustrators than our dear editor Peter Richardson whom we bring back to celebrate this occasion. We then delve into our first feature with the undisputed Italian master of glamour MiloManara. Having worked with the likes of Hugo Pratt and filmmaker Federico Fellini, Manara has since shown that he is also an excellent illustrator, as his watercolours (usually featuring naked women) can attest, selling in the realm of five-figure sums. Greg Hildebrandt is an artist renowned for the Tolkien illustrations and calendars he created with his twin brother Tim during the latter part of the 20th century. Now, at the start of the new millennium, he got to work on one of his early passions—pin-up calendars. Under Greg’s colourful palette, his desirable models spring to life with an unprecedented realism. Pin-up calendars were extremely popular between the 1940s-’50s, having many illustrators became household names thanks to then. However, there was one artist who stuck out from the others with a rather quaint originality: painting women losing their undergarments, usually in a public place or at the most inconvenient of times. When the fad of loosing your knickers passed, Art Frahmwent on to depicting women wearing diaphanous negligees—with nothing underneath! Lastly, we go over to the doyenne of illustrators fromthe pulps of the 1930s, andmaybe the most popular cover artist from Weird Tales : Margaret Brundage. Her popularity was such that even writers asked her to do covers for their stories (Robert E. Howard among them). Nevertheless, it was some of these same writers who also criticized her work for always featuring naked women, usually being tortured or whipped. We would like to thank the following people who helped us with this issue: Jean Scrocco at Spiderwebart, Claudio Curcio at Comicon Italy, Emily VanderWall and Chris Britton at Heritage Auctions, Adine Kirnberg for the font used on the cover, Mitch O’Connell for his anecdote, and Peter Richardson for his kind words. DC CONTENTS 4 The undisputed master of erotica shows us his many facets in our main feature. 93 94 42 After a past illustrating Tolkien, this brilliant artist now takes up doing pin-ups. Greg Hildebrandt Milo Manara 80 Margaret Brundage Perhaps one of the most original pin-up artists, whose models kept loosing their knickers. 64 Art Frahm From The Inside Memoirs 96 2 The Gallery The Bookshelf Pin-up art from Alex Raymond. Daffy power pack, dystopian sci-fi, and Flashman. The World’s Best Artist shares with us a rock’n’roll anecdote. Peter Richardson tells us about the origin of our publication. The doyenne of the golden age of pulps, whose naked women were the main attraction.