"Astounding... extraordinary... Jumping between highlighting his indie cult status as an artist and the mindset behind the abstraction of some of comics most beloved characters, the collection ultimately acts as a stunning visual love letter to one of comics most revered artists." — Comics Beat Bill Sienkiewicz (pronounced sin-KEV-itch) is an Eisner-winning, Emmy-nominated artist best known for revolutionizing the way comic books are drawn and made. His work has graced the National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; art galleries in Paris, Barcelona, and Tuscany; and advertising campaigns for Nike, MTV, Nissan, the 2006 Winter Olympics, and dozens of Hollywood movies. Sienkiewicz is a classically trained painter whose artworks incorporate abstract and expressionist influences and combine oil painting, acrylics, watercolor, mixed media, collage, and mimeograph. Bill Sienkiewicz: Revolution, Vol. I (Limited Edition)—the first time the artist’s work and career have been taken out of the context of comic books and evaluated as fine art—is a numbered edition of 1,000 copies, each signed by the artist. Contained in a fabric-covered clamshell box is a collection of 40 individual deluxe reproductions of previously unpublished paintings, drawings, sketches, and mixed media works from four decades of Sienkiewicz’s notebooks and personal collection as well as other private collections. A booklet signed by the artist includes a text explaining his influences and techniques and offer his view on the future of comic book art.
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"Bill sees clearly, paints beautifully. He absorbs styles and ways of making art with the facility he had as a young man, but now I always feel he’s in control of what he does. . . . My hope is that a book like this, filled with Bill’s art all in one place, will show people who think they know what Bill can do exactly how much more he can do than any of them had ever dreamed."
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"A master . . . [who] rejigged the comic book artist’s mind forever." (Guillermo del Toro) "I asked [Bill] if he would send me some art. Anything he felt inspired to send me that was lying around his studio. He sent me a box of art. I took that box to work every day told no one. Intense art that inspired the hell out of me." (Vincent d’Onofrio, on his inspiration for acting in DareDevil)
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1,000-copy first printing Featured at ALA annual conference PR professional hired to pitch to major review and feature media Coordinated marketing and social media plans with the artist at San Diego and New York Comic Cons and at many other comic book conventions in North America and internationally BS:R will be promoted on the Twitter and Instagram accounts of Neil Gaiman and Alex Ross as well as Bill Sienkiewicz.
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ISBN
9781644420041
Publisert
2019-12-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Six Foot Press
Høyde
330 mm
Bredde
254 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
40

Forfatter
Introduction by

Biographical note

Bill Sienkiewicz has been one of the single most influential artists in the comic book world. His 40-year career includes iconic series for both Marvel and DC that have gone on to be adapted into films and television, most notably DareDevil, Legion, Venom, and New Mutants, the forthcoming blockbuster film from Marvel/20th Century Fox. Neil Gaiman is the author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. He is best known for his best-selling comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.