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A compelling showcase spanning seventransformative years. During an impressive period-2005through 2012-Mark Schultz turned his attention to producing a body ofpersonal works and private commissions. The results, collected in the five VariousDrawings volumes, focused on subjects about which Schultz feels mostpassionate. Among them are characters and tableaux pulled from mythology,science-fantasy and pulp adventure, featuring steely warriors and femmefatales-his popular pulpette women included. Schultz's Xenozoic world isprofusely explored through a series of dynamic compositions with hisprotagonists, Jack and Hannah, placed in a variety of impossibly dangeroussituations. In addition to his self-generated pieces, there are many examplesof Schultz's commercial works done for comics, film and books, as well asrenderings of newly discovered dinosaurs and more. Portfolio compiles thedrawings found in the original five Various DrawingsFoundwithin are nearly 450 fully rendered drawings executed in brush-and-ink, carbonor graphite pencil. In addition, Schultz shows his process with a wealth ofpreliminary sketches done for a range of projects, including his Storms atSea illustrated novella. Add to this rare sketchbook materialandSchultz's increasing exploration of color-tinted imagery, and you have onefascinating and diverse portfolio!

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Since entering the world of cartooning in the mid-1980s with the science-fiction adventure series Xenozoic Tales, Mark Schultz has slowly but consistently produced a very diversified body of work. He has produced illustrations for Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories, scripted four years of Superman, composed a science guide to Genetics and DNA, created the Stormforce 10 adventure SubHuman with paleontologist Michael J. Ryan, and written the novella Storms at Sea, which he also illustrated. Currently he scripts the comic strip Prince Valiant, and in free moments continues to work on a sequel to Storms at Sea. Flesk has been his publisher since 2005, and continues to regularly release collections of his sketches, commissions and personal works.

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