Wednesday, March 12, 2014
The Visitors are Coming: Pop Art (V Print Ads)
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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That 'poster-quality' art really beats the pants off of cut-n-paste photo ads. As reflected in your post, right around '85, illustrations for TV Guide ads went the way of the Conestoga wagon. The illustrations really sold it to me, got my elementary school-age self all cranked up for 'V: The Final Battle.'
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