Chris Achilleos: Beauty And The Beast
(1978 - Paper Tiger) 
78 pages of art here, with 74 of them being full-page reproductions. Among those are seven double-page spreads, every one of them satisfactory (due to laying them out to fall on the portfolio-centers). Making all the pages non-white and instead using a palette of saturated hues for backgrounds, certainly makes the 'framed' paintings pop visually. Each painting is captioned with its title and there is an index page that adds publication & date info, as well as a book's author, if the painting is a cover. The remaining text pages are an introduction and the artist's thoughts about the idea of heroism. Among the works, you'll find the personages of Muhammad Ali, Bruce Lee, Medusa, Doctor Who, Tarl Cabot, Dray Prescot, Raven, the cowboy McAllistar, Almuric, Kull and other characters from the books of Burroughs, Howard & Moorcock, along with assorted u.f.o.s, spaceships, robots, aliens, monsters, wizards and nudes & pin-ups (both fantasy and futuristic). A couple of the images pursue adult themes too far in explicitness, so I put this book away from children.
other Paper Tiger monographs
Paper Tiger's Boris Vallejo/Julie Bell books
Paper Tiger's Boris Vallejo books
Paper Tiger's Chris Foss books
The Fantasy Art Techniques Of Tim Hildebrandt
Paper Tiger's Bob Eggleton collections
Ron Miller: Firebrands - The Heroines Of Science Fiction & Fantasy
Journeyman - The Art Of Chris Moore
Tom Adams' Agatha Christie Cover Story
Mermaids And Magic Shows - The Paintings Of David Delamare
The Deceiving Eye - The Art Of Richard Hescox
Parallel Lines - The Science Fiction Illustrations Of Peter Elson & Chris Moore
Only Visiting This Planet - The Art Of Danny Flynn
Inner Visions - The Art Of Ron Walotsky
Enchanted World - The Art Of Anne Sudworth
Frank Kelly Freas: As He Sees It
Hardyware - The Art Of David A. Hardy
Paper Tiger's Julie Bell books
Linda & Roger Garland: The Book Of The Unicorn
Jeffrey Catherine Jones: Yesterday's Lily
The Science Fiction Art Of Vincent DiFate
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