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    Neal Adams was an American comic book artist. He was the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates, and was a creators-rights advocate who helped secure a pension and recognition for Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. During his career, Adams co-created the characters Ra's al Ghul, Man-Bat, and John Stewart for DC Comics. After drawing the comic strip based on the television drama Ben Casey in the early 1960s, Adams was hired as a freelancer by DC Comics in 1967. Later that year, he became the artist for the superhero character Deadman in the science fiction comic book Strange Adventures. Adams and writer Dennis O'Neil collaborated on influential runs on Batman and Green Lantern/Green Arrow in the early 1970s. For Batman, the duo returned the Batman character to his gothic roots as a contrast to the Batman television series of the 1960s. During their Green Lantern/Green Arrow run, O'Neil and Adams introduced a mature, realistic tone through stories such as "Snowbirds Don't Fly", in which Green Arrow's young ward Roy "Speedy" Harper is revealed to have become addicted to drugs. The duo created and introduced the Green Lantern character John Stewart in 1971. Following his runs on Batman and Green Lantern, Adams drew other books for DC such as Superman vs. Muhammad Ali in 1978. In addition to his work with DC, Adams simultaneously freelanced for Marvel Comics on books such as Uncanny X-Men and The Avengers. In 1971, Adams established the art and illustration studio Continuity Associates with Dick Giordano. In 1984, Adams founded his own comic book company Continuity Comics, which was in business until 1994. Adams was inducted into the Eisner Awards' Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1998, the Harvey Awards' Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1999, and the Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame in 2019. OVGA has included below Neal Adams' full known box art catalog: American Gladiators (GameTek | NES | 1991) Buck O'Hare (Konami | NES | 1992)
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    David Burroughs Mattingly is an American illustrator and painter, best known for his numerous book covers of science fiction and fantasy literature. David illustrated the 1988 box art for the Amiga game Hybris.
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    Description: Doom magazine cover art for EGM issue 64. Don signed the painting "Punchatz" on the space marine's gun. Originally sold on Heritage Auctions in 2008 for less than $300, on September 25, 2020 the painting was resold for $38,889 through Heritage's Make Offer to Owner feature. Year: 1994 Medium: Acrylic on heavy illustration board Image Area: 12" x 15" Image Source: Heritage Auctions Condition: Excellent
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    Mark Heine is a Canadian artist and illustrator. Mark's education and work in the Vancouver area likely positioned him well geographically for work with Seattle-area video game companies, including Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sierra.
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    Val Semeiks Valdis Semeiks, born in the U.S. to Latvian parents, has been an integral part of the comic book industry since 1986. Primarily known as a penciller, with occasional forays into inking, Semeiks made his professional debut drawing King Kull back-up stories for The Savage Sword of Conan. This opportunity catapulted him into a monthly gig on Conan the Barbarian, marking his full-time commitment to comics after leaving his day job. Transitioning to DC Comics, Semeiks embarked on extensive runs on The Demon and Lobo, collaborating closely with acclaimed writer Alan Grant. His tenure on Lobo, characterized by its uproarious and irreverent tone, was particularly memorable, highlighted by projects like the graphic novel Lobo/Judge Dredd: Psycho-Bikers vs. The Mutants from Hell, co-written by John Wagner. Semeiks's dynamic artwork was enhanced by the skilled inking of John Dell. Moving to Marvel, Semeiks contributed to various titles, notably leaving his mark on Wolverine under the penmanship of Larry Hama, his inaugural editor who kickstarted his career. Returning to DC, he tackled projects such as JLA and DC One Million, written by industry luminary Grant Morrison and inked by Prentis Rollins. Throughout his career, Semeiks has demonstrated his versatility, spanning genres from superheroes to fantasy. Noteworthy endeavors include his work on Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight and The Legend of Drizzt series, showcasing his ability to bring gritty crime drama and epic fantasy to life with equal aplomb. In addition to his comic book work, Semeiks has collaborated with Disney Publishing Worldwide, adapting Marvel characters for early-reader books. His distinctive style, digitally painted to suit Disney's aesthetic, introduces young readers to iconic superheroes in a fresh and accessible way. Beyond comics, Semeiks has dabbled in various artistic endeavors, including cartoon work for MAD Magazine and toy design. His unique background, with degrees in chemistry and math, underscores his unconventional path into the world of comics, driven by a lifelong passion for drawing and storytelling. As Semeiks continues to contribute to the comic book landscape, his dedication to the craft and boundless creativity ensure that there are many more exciting projects on the horizon.
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    A fine artist and commercial illustrator since 1996, Jason has shown his paintings in galleries, as well as worked for advertising, editorial, packaging and book publishing clients internationally. He is primarily a traditional artist, painting in acrylic on wood panel and watercolour paper, but also works digitally when the assignment calls for it. His style can be referred to as “ideal realism”, and usually emphasizes the figure with high contrast and saturated colors. He is often inspired by the world of pop culture, adding his personal spin to characters and subjects from movies, comic books, toys and retro style advertising. Movie poster design is Jason’s personal specialty, and he has developed a unique technique that mixes traditional painting with digital color separation that has pushed the medium of screen printing, expanding what is possible with color and detail, ultimately inspiring experimentation by many of his peers.
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    John Dearstyne is an American illustrator who painted the box art for Kemco’s Kid Klown in Night Mayor World for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993. Throughout his career, he specialized in humorous illustration, cartoon art, and editorial art services. After receiving a B.F.A. in Graphic Design from the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri and an M.F.A. in Photography from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, John taught design, drawing, and photography at Oregon State University. As his interest shifted to freelance commercial illustration, John left Oregon State University and moved to Los Angeles, California, where he set up his own studio doing work for advertising agencies, magazines and the film and entertainment industries. He would later relocate to northwest Oregon where he continued to freelance. He is now likely retired.
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    Ron Randall is an American comic book artist best known as the creator of the character Trekker.
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    Mike Wieringo who sometimes signed his work under the name Ringo, was an American comics artist best known for his work on DC Comics' The Flash, Marvel Comics' Spider-Man and Fantastic Four, as well as his own creator-owned series, Tellos. In 2017, the Ringo Awards were created in honor of Wieringo. They are presented at the Baltimore Comic-Con to recognize achievement in the comics industry.
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    Joe Mathieu a primary illustrator of Sesame Street’s beloved characters for books, magazines, and toys. His art captured the look and feel of the famed television program, leading to a long relationship with Random House and Sesame Street Workshop that continues to this day. In addition to more than 150 books, Mathieu has created art for albums and CD covers, and images for a wide range of clients.
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    Randy Green is an American professional comic book illustrator who created video game box art for a handful of X-Men titles released between 2000 and 2002. Additionally, he has been published by Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, and others. OVGA has included below Randy Green's full known box art catalog: X-Men Mutant Wars (Activision | Game Boy Color | 2000) X-Men: Wolverine's Rage (Activision | Game Boy Color | 2001) X-Men: Reign of Apocalypse (Activision | Game Boy Advance | 2001) X-Men: Next Dimension (Activision | GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox | 2002) For Reign of Apocalypse and Next Dimension, Randy penciled and inked each character individually. While the final box compositions combine Randy's individual drawings, the original art for each video game box is believed to be spread across multiple owners.
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    Mike DeCarlo is an American comics artist. He is best known for his work for DC Comics in the 1980s inking the artwork of such artists as George Pérez, Greg LaRocque, Keith Giffen, and Jim Aparo. DeCarlo has worked on various titles including Atari Force, Cartoon Network Block Party, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Fantastic Four, and Simpsons Comics as well as adaptations of the Warner Bros. stable of cartoons including Looney Tunes, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain and Superman & Bugs Bunny.
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    Iain McCaig is an American artist, writer, and filmmaker. Though born in Santa Monica, California, he grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and attended the Glasgow School of Art after which he began his career as a freelance illustrator in the UK. He has been involved in the Star Wars franchise and many other iconic film and book projects, including an album cover for Jethro Tull's Broadsword and the Beast. OVGA has included below Iain McCaig's full known box art catalog: The Forest of Doom (Puffin Books Ltd. | Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum | 1984) art reused from the 1983 Fighting Fantasy game book of the same name Curse of Dragor (Domark Software, Inc. | Macintosh | 1995) Killing Time (The 3DO Company | 3DO | 1995) The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring (Sierra Entertainment | Windows | 2003) digital
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    Born in Leicester, Fegredo first managed to get into comics after showing his portfolio around UKCAC in 1987 and meeting Dave Thorpe. Together they worked on a strip for a short lived British magazine called Heartbreak Hotel. After this, Fegredo worked at Crisis for Fleetway before working on Kid Eternity at DC Comics with writer Grant Morrison. He then worked with writer Peter Milligan on Enigma, an eight-issue miniseries for DC's Vertigo imprint. At 2000 AD he worked on Judge Dredd and a couple of other titles.
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    Oclair Albert currently works mostly as an inker for DC, though he used to be a colourist for Defiant Comics, where he worked under the name Oclair Alberto Silverio.
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    Ivan Reis is a Brazilian comics artist. He is known for his work on comic books such as Dark Horse Comics' Ghost, Marvel Comics' Captain Marvel and Avengers Icons:
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    Stephen Gardner is a British illustrator that illustrated the cover art for the novelization of Resident Evil – Code: Veronica in 2001. He moved from England to New York in 1989 to further his education and career. While in New York, over the course of 16 years, he work with a variety of publishers and art directors illustrating book jackets, trading cards, and even a couple of movie posters, among them a poster image for Clint Eastwood's The Unforgiven. After returning to school in 2005 to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts, Stephen has become an adjunct professor at several colleges. He currently teaches at The Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.
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    Chris Achilléos was a Cypriot-born British painter and illustrator known for his fantasy art for books, video games, and other uses. Chris was a cover artist of the covers of many Target novelisations during the 1970s. For the earlier publications, he provided both front cover art and comic book-style back cover vignettes. He also produced a limited edition print commemorating The Five Doctors, and, for SFX magazine, a poster commemorating the premiere airing of Rose. He also contributed at least one cover to Doctor Who Magazine. His 1987 art book Sirens includes many of his Target book cover art. Chris also designed the cover for the re-release of Battlefield. For over the past 40 years, Chris has created some of the best loved fantasy and glamour art and is acknowledged as one of the top fantasy artists in the world. https://bleedingcool.com/comics/chris-achilleos-dies-at-the-age-of-74/ OVGA has included below Chris Achilléos's full know box art catalog: Talisman: The Magical Quest Game (Games Workshop Ltd. | ZX Spectrum | 1985) Temple of Terror (Adventuresoft U.K. Ltd. | Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum | 1987) Bloodwych (Image Works | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, ZX Spectrum | 1989) Carthage (Psygnosis | Amiga, Atari ST | 1990) Bloodwych: Data Disks Vol. 1 (Image Works | Commodore Amiga, Atari, 1990) repeat image Battle Master (Mirrorsoft Ltd. | Amiga, Atarti ST, DOS, Genesis | 1990) J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan (Personal Software Services | DOS-EUR | 1990) not the US Konami/Image Works DOS release Barbarian II (Psygnosis | Amiga, Atari ST | 1991)
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    Don Ivan Punchatz was a science fiction and fantasy artist best known for designing the box art and title/logo art for id Software's 1993 first-person shooter DOOM. To keep development costs down and in-budget, Don is said to have reduced his usual fee and refused a percentage of DOOM’s profits—little knowing it would go on to be such a mega hit. Initially released for the DOS, Don's DOOM artwork was reused for numerous ports and releases of the game including for the 3DO, Game Boy Advance, Jaguar, Macintosh, PC-98, Sega 32X, SNES, and Windows. Don's logo art reused for several Doom sequels, including DOOM II and DOOM 64; his logo was also used on releases of the original DOOM for which he did not illustrate the box art, such as for PlayStation and Sega Saturn. Don also illustrated the November 1994 (issue 64) cover for Electronic Gaming Magazine (EGM), also featuring Doom artwork.
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    Bio: One of the most highly regarded artists of his generation, Gerald Brom (b.1965) received the prestigious Grand Master award at the 2013 Spectrum Fantastic Art annual. Early in his career, Brom illustrated cover and interior art for the role playing games Deadlands and Dungeons & Dragons. Brom has also created concept art and storyboards for a number of feature films, including Galaxy Quest (1999), Ghosts of Mars (2001), Scooby-Doo (2002), and Van Helsing (2004). In recent years, his haunting imagery has appeared in roleplaying games and in horror novels that he writes and illustrates, including The Devil’s Rose (2007); Krampus: the Yule Lord (2012); and a frightening take on Peter Pan titled The Child Thief (2010). The artist signs his works with his last name, leading many to refer to him simply as “Brom.”
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    Phil Roberts is an American illustrator known for his surf art. He credits the December 1982 cover of Surfer magazine as what launched his career in Hollywood, from which he went on to illustrate movie advertising art as a freelancer for all the major studios.
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    Les Dorscheid has freelanced for over 12 years, illustrating sci-fi and fantasy covers. His oil paintings have been featured on paperback books, role-playing games, comics, and card games. He's also painted the interiors on graphic novels including Batman Red Rain, Batman Dark Joker, Aliens Hive, Deadman and over 75 issues of Nexus. Les has been with Raven since 1995. His game credits include Necrodome, Take No Prisoners, Heretic II and he served as Lead Artist on MageSlayer and the Hexen II Mission Pack: Portal of Praevus. He was also the Lead Artist on Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force. OVGA has included below Les Dorcheid's full known box art catalog: Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold (Apogee Software, Ltd. | DOS | 1993) Rise of the Triad: Dark War (Apogee Software, Ltd. | DOS | 1994) Raptor: Call of the Shadows (Apogee Software, Ltd. | DOS | 1994) Realms of Chaos (Apogee Software, Ltd. | DOS | 1995)
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    Christopher Moeller is an American writer and painter, specializing in fully painted graphic novels. He appears to have gotten a start in the video game industry as early as 1994, painting ultimately unused box art for X-Men 2: Clone Wars for the Sega Genesis. He was also heavily involved in the art direction for Batman: Dark Tomorrow (2003) for the Nintendo GameCube and Microsoft Xbox; in addition to painting the game's box art illustration, he also painted several concept paintings in 2001 that contributed heavily to the game's look.
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    Description: This is an alternative cover for the Super NES game, Imperium. Year: 1992 Medium: Acrylic on board Image Area: Width x Height IN/CM Image Source: Original Condition:
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    Formal art training the Famous Artists Schools in Westport, Connecticut.
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