Legendary Star Wars Artist Greg Hildebrandt Has Handed Away

Iconic fantasy and science-fiction illustrator Greg Hildebrandt handed away yesterday on the age of 85.

Hildebrandt’s pop-culture works included the “type B” poster for the UK launch of Star Wars, in addition to posters for Conflict of the Titans, Barbarella, and Younger Frankenstein—the latter two alongside his late twin brother and frequent collaborator, Tim Hildebrandt. He additionally illustrated quite a few buying and selling playing cards for Magic: The Gathering and Marvel Masterworks, painted art work for Dungeons & Dragons and the official Lord of the Rings calendars, contributed covers for IDW’s Star Wars comics and problems with OMNI, Wonderful Tales, and Heavy Metallic journal and designed the album art work for Black Sabbath’s Mob Guidelines—in addition to and several other releases by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

On the literary aspect of issues, Hildebrandt moreover illustrated his personal e book, Greg Hildebrandt’s Favourite Fairy Tales, in addition to works associated to Dracula, Robin Hood, Terry Brooks’ The Sword of Shannara, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Peter Cottontail’s Shock, The Wizard of Oz, The Phantom of the Opera, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Hildebrandt’s passing prompting an outpouring of response on social media from luminaries together with Gail Simone, Paul Levitz, Jimmy Palmiotti, Jo Duffy, Pat Brosseau, CrissCross, Rob Liefeld, and Tony DiTerlizzi with certainly extra to observe. We’ll depart you with a small handful of some our private favorites of the person’s works. Might he relaxation in peace.

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