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Acclaimed monograph on the World's most famous monster portrait artist. Basil Gogos changed the face of classic horror with his film monster portrait art. Like a bizarro-world Norman Rockwell, he created magazine covers of Frankenstein, the Creature from the Black Lagoon. the Phantom of the Opera, and countless others in horrifying yet dazzling images throughout the 1960s and '70s. His intense colour and bold, impressionistic brushwork gave a unique sense of drama and sophistication to these iconic characters. Today, collectors fight over his original art--but, with this book, every fan can own glowing full-colour reproductions of his most famous work as well as many previously unpublished paintings and drawings.

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Kerry Gammill has worked in the fields of comic books, movie special effects, TV and film storyboard artist, and character designer. Gammill's noted comic-book career includes illustrated such series as Power Man and Iron Fist, Superman, Indiana Jones, and Action Comics.  Gammill co-created such other characters as Ariel, White Rabbit, Chance, Leila Davis and Draaga. He drew the first two issues of the Deadly Foes of Spider-Man limited series in 1991 and in the following year, was one of the artists on the debut issue of Team Titans. Gammill followed another artistic passion to become a TV and film special effects concept artist including on Virus, Speicies II, Phantoms, The Outer Limits, and Tremors: The Series.  In 2001, Vanguard published Kerry Gammill's Drawing Monsters and Heroes for Comics and Film. In 2020, he served as art director on Legendary Comics' adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 Dracula novel, which used the likeness of Bela Lugosi. Four years later, Gammill worked on a similar project, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Starring Boris Karloff which adapted the 1818 book into a graphic novel.  Gammill lives in Ft. Worth, Texas.

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