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

18 © Basement Gang, Inc. 2020 From his groundbreaking work on Crisis and his pulse-pounding rendition of Devlin Waugh to his ongoing collaboration with Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips has always been a talent to watch… ABOVE: The Naked City. Illustration for an essay in Kill or be Killed , issue 6. FACING PAGE: Sean’s love of noir is captured to perfection in this portrait of Robert Mitchum from 2015. Sean P hillips Sean’s work will be familiar to many readers, his powerful imagery has appeared across a multiplicity of graphic novels from Judge Dredd , to Batman , and one of the most iconic noir series, Criminal . His art has fuelled the fantasies of comic art enthusiasts across the world for the last four decades, and seems certain to keep such folk happy for many years to come. He is refreshingly down to earth about his art, but the passion that informs