Year: 1977
Publisher: Donning
ISBN: 091544237X
Content: 120 pages with mostly colour illustrations
Kelly Freas was the doyen of scifi illustration. He started his career back in the 50´s, illustrating stories in magazines or books, painting vividly coloured covers and basically giving a picture background for every legend of science fiction and fantasy. His work did not only appear on science fiction related stuff - he created the funny face of Alfred from MAD Magazine, painted the space art on NASA´s official publications, designed a QUEEN album cover or draw illustrations for astrology books.
Eleven time HUGO winner, Kelly remained faithful to his beloved art. In the 90´s he re-emerged and came up with stunning new images, some of them collected in an other (Paper Tiger) artbook. This volume however collected for the very first time the best examples of his career up to that date. Some of his art can be seen on his homepage (scroll down for the pictures).
The book itself has a splendid quality, the vivid colours hold up even 33 years after publication. You can still found this volume around at Amazon, starting under 10 Dollars, with of course higher prices for better quality. A limited (1000 copies) edition with signed bookplates by Kelly Freas has also been published, without dust cover but slipcased.
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