Description
Drew Struzan has created some of the most iconic movie posters of the last 30 years, including Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Blade Runner. This sumptuous hardcover edition, with a foreword by George Lucas, features over 250 pieces of artwork, including all of Drew's most iconic movie images, as well as other highlights from his career, including album, book and comic book covers, stamps, trading cards, promotional artwork and very personal original works. The book comes right up to date, including exclusive San Diego Comic-Con poster art produced for the Walking Dead television series (2010) and the Cowboys & Aliens movie (2011), with text by his wife Dylan, providing an intimate look at the man and his legacy. The definitive collection of Struzan's work; this is an absolute must-have for any movie buff and an unrivalled slice of both art and cinema history.
Limited Edition details:
1,000 copies, individually numbered and signed by Drew Struzan. Slipcased edition includes an oversized (360 x 260mm) cloth-bound dustjacketed edition of the book with a bound-in signature sheet, and comes with a signed and numbered print in an envelope - BOOK: 314pp, including 3 6-page gatefolds, printed on 140gsm Chinese matte art, casebound, in real cloth with gold foil blocking on front and spine, sewn hardback with matt laminated and spot varnished variant dustjacket. Metallic-printed endpapers.
Variant Dust Jacket featuring –
Front: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (poster art), Star Trek 25th Anniversary Mr Spock (poster art), Star Wars Darth Maul #1 (comic cover art), The Thing (poster art)
Back: Lady Pendragon #1 (comic cover art), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (poster art), Indiana Jones Triology (DVD box cover art), Abe (personal art)
SIGNATURE SHEET: printed on a digital press on 90gsm white parchment paper, featuring exclusive full-colour Charlie Chaplin (Shoulder Arms) Struzan image, bound into front of book, individually hand-numbered, signed by Drew Struzan
PRINT: limited edition (1,000 copy) full colour Pan’s Labyrinth print printed on a digital press on 350gsm white silk paper, 350 x 250mm, signed by Drew Struzan, in plain white envelope. The image is of the Faun hugging Ofelia surrounded by fairies and in front of a layout of the labyrinth.
SLIPCASE: matt laminated and spot varnished white slipcase Packaged with lithograph in envelope to back of book inside slipcase then individually shrink-wrapped with A6 4-colour contents sheet inserted between slipcase and shrink-wrap at the back. Individually packed in a mail carton and labeled to indicate numbered edition.
Print is signed
Signature sheet is signed and numbered
