Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Oct 31, 2024 21:53:03 GMT -5
Artist, painter Greg Hildebrandt passed away today at 85. That's a shame. The Hilderbrandts produced some fantastic sci-fi and fantasy artwork over the years. In particular, I always liked their Tolkien stuff a lot, and their "barbarian fantasy in space" Star Wars poster for the 1978 UK release is an amazing image and something you saw a lot when I was a kid. |
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Post by berkley on Oct 31, 2024 23:49:26 GMT -5
Artist, painter Greg Hildebrandt passed away today at 85. Sad. That Star Wars poster alone was a career work. He and Tim’s vision of Middle Earth is the one I see in my minds eye.
The more I've seen of Tolkien's art over the years the more it's taken over my imagination as the visual imagery of his Middle-Earth but the Hildebrandts' vision is one of the few by artists other than Tolkien that still feel right to me when I see it. And I always liked their style in general.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Nov 1, 2024 2:35:10 GMT -5
I had certainly seen the Star Wars poster when I was a kid, but the first time I connected a piece of art with the name Hildebrandt was the cover to the Sword of Shanara by Terry Brooks when I started reading it in junior high. I discovered their Tolkien work soon afterwards, and I became a big fan in my teen years. I still have a few artbooks featuring their stuff. Major loss to the world of fantasy art for sure, but Greg (and Tim who passed in '06) have a legacy that will endure.
-M
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Post by kirby101 on Nov 1, 2024 7:14:32 GMT -5
I met Greg a number of years ago at a Con. The story he told is that Lucas sought them out to do the Star Wars poster because he thought their popularity from the LotR calendars would help promote the little Sci Fi film he did.
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Post by Calidore on Nov 1, 2024 9:33:18 GMT -5
I met Greg a number of years ago at a Con. The story he told is that Lucas sought them out to do the Star Wars poster because he thought their popularity from the LotR calendars would help promote the little Sci Fi film he did. Basically the movie equivalent of shelling out for a good cover artist. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 1, 2024 15:07:20 GMT -5
The 1994 Marvel Masterpieces card collection by the Hildebrant Bros was actually what got me into comics. As a baseball card collector and appreciator of any kind of art, I one time decided to buy a pack along with some baseball cards. One pack got me spending almost all my pocket money until I had the whole collection. In the midst of that I started slowly buying comics. Their art together is amazing.  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 1, 2024 20:31:33 GMT -5
Their images were Lord of the Rings, to me, for years, as well as about half the fantasy covers I recall seeing in bookstores, with Shanarra and some others. I seem to recall Luke's chest being a bit broader than Mark Hammil's and Leia showing way more skin than in the movie (think they used the gown she wears at the closing award ceremony).
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Post by Trevor on Nov 3, 2024 20:19:46 GMT -5
The 1994 Marvel Masterpieces card collection by the Hildebrant Bros was actually what got me into comics. As a baseball card collector and appreciator of any kind of art, I one time decided to buy a pack along with some baseball cards. One pack got me spending almost all my pocket money until I had the whole collection. In the midst of that I started slowly buying comics. Their art together is amazing. Great story, and makes me think that we all have an ‘origin story’ of how we got into comics. I imagine we’ve had threads about that, right? |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 3, 2024 20:42:40 GMT -5
Couple of passings of note. First, in the UK, RIP to comedian/actress Janey Godley, from ovarian cancer.  (Here on the topical news quiz show Have I Got News For You) She was from Glasgow, growing up in poverty, with alcoholic parents and an uncle who molested her and her sister (for which he was eventually charged and served time in prison). Through the 80s and 90s she helped run a family pub, with her husband and began doing standup, in 1994 and won several awards, over the years, including the inaugural Sir Billy Connelly Spirit of Glasgow Award, at the Glasgow Comedy Festival. Conelly was a big fan and supporter. She appeared in several tv shows and did spoof voice overs for videos. She was a strong activist, involved in women's rights issues, transgender rights issues and Scottish Nationalism. She also made international news trolling Donald Trump at his golf resort, Turnberry, in Ayrshire, holding up a derogatory sign, in view of the resort, but not on the actual grounds. In 2021, tweets she had made resurfaced, with accusations of racism, in some, and mocking disabilities. She publicly apologized for the tweets. I saw her on Have I Got News For You and she was incredibly funny and made for a great episode. The other passing was American actor Alan Rachins, of Dharma & Greg and LA Law.  Rachins played Douglas Brackman, in 171 episodes of LA Law and also voiced the Clock King, in Batman TAS (and Justice League Unlimited). he also made a couple of appearances in Lois & Clark and Rizzoli and Isles. He played Jenna Elfman's hippie father, in Dharma & Greg, with Mimi Kenedy as her mother, though her parents never married. Dharma & Greg was a favorite of Barb's and Rachins was great in the series, especially in scenes with Susan Sullivan and Mitchell Ryan, as Greg's wealthy parents. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 4, 2024 4:08:13 GMT -5
Oh, man. This is a big one: just saw the news that Quincy Jones has died at the age of 91.  He was a composer, songwriter and music producer - probably what he's best known for by many, as he, among many, many others, produced Michael Jackson's Thriller album. He was active for decades (got his start in the early 1950s I think) though, working with tons of artists and also releasing solo albums, like the mellow, jazzy Body Heat (which was part of my favorite 1974 albums list elsewhere on this forum): He also wrote the scores for numerous films, and even composed the theme songs for a number of television shows, including this personal favorite, "The Streetbeater," although pretty much everyone knows it as the Sanford & Son theme: Unsurprisingly, he picked up tons of awards for his work, mostly Grammies, obviously, but also a number of Oscars, as well as (I just checked this) Tonies and even an Emmy. And for those of you who may be Parks & Rec fans, he was also the father of actress Rashida Jones. RIP, big guy. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 4, 2024 8:49:49 GMT -5
I was just coming to post. Dude was simply one of the greatest jazz composers and arrangers ever. The Streetbeater (the Sanford and Son Theme) just never ceases to make me happy. Easily one of the funkiest songs ever.
Rest in Power, Maestro.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 4, 2024 13:22:59 GMT -5
A HUGE name in the world of music and we are left worse off without him
RIP Mr. Jones
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Post by tartanphantom on Nov 4, 2024 13:24:05 GMT -5
I was just coming to post. Dude was simply one of the greatest jazz composers and arrangers ever. The Streetbeater (the Sanford and Son Theme) just never ceases to make me happy. Easily one of the funkiest songs ever. Rest in Power, Maestro.
Not to mention his incredibly diverse film composition work. "Visionary" hardly begins to describe the man. Both tunes composed, conducted and produced by Jones, with lyrics by Don Black.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 4, 2024 21:34:41 GMT -5
I was just coming to post. Dude was simply one of the greatest jazz composers and arrangers ever. The Streetbeater (the Sanford and Son Theme) just never ceases to make me happy. Easily one of the funkiest songs ever. Rest in Power, Maestro.
Not to mention his incredibly diverse film composition work. "Visionary" hardly begins to describe the man. Both tunes composed, conducted and produced by Jones, with lyrics by Don Black.
And he was only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! |
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Post by Dizzy D on Nov 6, 2024 6:51:18 GMT -5
I don't think anybody has mentioned it yet, but Pierre Christin, writer of Valerian and Laureline (as well as many other works) passed away in early October, aged 86. Ravian is still one of my favourite series of all time. I have read relatively little of his other works though, I read The Hunt and Pigalle, 1950. So time to correct that. Longer article, in dutch (so probably use auto-translate for most here): www.stripspeciaalzaak.be/stripnieuws/pierre-christin-86-overleden |
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