EXTRACTS: Illustrators Crime Comics Special © 2020 Book Palace Books (144 pages in full edition)

1 Cover Image: Sean Phillips 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, Designer & Writer: Peter Richardson Consultant Editors: Norman Boyd, David Ashford, Alan Richardson Feature Writers: Javier Meson, Tony Fabro Website: Paul Tanner Subscriptions & Distribution: David Howarth Advertising: ads@bookpalace.com illustrators ISBN 978-1-913548-01-8 ISSN 2052-6520 Special Issue No. 9 Copyright © 2020 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 CRIME COMICS CONTENTS EDITORIAL Crime Comics - A Brief History The Art of Sean Phillips Crime Does Not Pay Torpedo - The Making of a Lethal Legend Three Panel Crimes Fred Guardineer - Comic Book Pioneer! From ‘Gallows Pamphlets’ to ‘Criminal’ a look at the history of Crime Comics. From ‘Judge Dredd’ to ‘Criminal’, Sean’s art has been a feature of crime comics for thirty years. The story of the most infamous crime comics ever and the three men who devised them. Javier Meson brings us the story of how one of comicdom’s grittiest gangsters was brought to life. One of the most compelling channels on Instagram—Tony Fabro tells us how he put it together. The story behind one of the premier artists from the golden-age of US comic books.. 2 16 78 114 138 144 Crime has been with us from time immemorial and, as with so many deviant undertakings, casts its own hypnotic spell as a medium of literary and cinematic entertainment. As such it has proved the perfect genre for comic strips, andwith this inmind, we proudly present what we ha history of crime comics, from their earliest incarnation in the form of the gruesome gallows pamphlets through to the work of such maestros of the crime comics genre as Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Along the way youwill meet such pioneers of the comicsmediumas Creig Flessel and Fred Guardineer. Expect to be amazed at the larger than life personalities of Crime Does Not Pay publisher Lev Gleason and his editors, the ebullient and multi- talented Charles Biro and the dysfunctional, and ultimately, murderous BobWood. Next you will find yourself looking down the barrel of the greatest hit-man to stalk the pages of comic books as we reveal the origins of Sánchez Abulí and Jordi Bernet’s charismatic psycho—the one and only Torpedo. Finally we take our leave of you with the story of one of Instagram’s most entertaining channels, as Tony Fabro brings us the story of Three Panel Crimes . Withmany thanks to Sean Phillips, JavierMesÓn, Heritage Auctions, Tony Fabro, Brett Dakin, Larry Kant and last, but by no means least, Denise Biro Ortell, Bonnie Biro Zurlo and Penny Gold. illustrators is published under the fair use of the copyright statute for purposes of criticism, scholarship, and used for the purposes of criticism, review, research or private study. All the images are the property of their creators and/or legal owners, excluding those in the public domain.Characters and series owned by specific and existent publishers are given their full credit under their images, as are those loaned by galleries, museums and auction houses. Every effort has been made to ascertain copyright ownership of all images. The opinions expressed in illustrators are those of the writers, and not necessarily those of the editor or publisher. No section or image from this journal may be reproduced without previous permission from the publisher. All rights reserved. All other contents © The Book Palace Ltd 2020.