Rene, I've tended to admire McGinnis's work as well, but
while leafing through the collected paintings at a BoucherCon
stall or two, I couldn't help noticing that what I had before
me were about two hundred plus images, all with exactly the
same cheekbones... TM
> From: "Rene Ribic" <
rribic@optusnet.com.au>
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Australian PBs & Robert
McGinnis
>
> I should point out for those who don't know that
McGinnis is the very
> prolific cover artist who did very many of the
paperback covers for
> writers such as Richard S Prather, Carter Brown,
Edward S Aarons, Brett
> Halliday, the Travis McGee books, the Gold Medal
editions of Richard
> Stark, as well as countless others including many of
the most famous
> authors, books & series' especially for Signet,
Dell & Gold Medal. He
> also did some very famous movie posters from the
'60's such as for
> "Barbarella" & the Bond movies. He's a very
important if often
> overlooked part of the history of hardboiled
literature & helped to sell
> Buddha knows how many extra copies of these books
with his paintings of
> impossibly beautiful, sexy & elegant femmes
fatale.
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