The Art Of Segrelles
(1987 - NBM (Nantier-Beall-Minoustchine))

First, there are 24 full-page, full-bleed, plates of this artist's work, mostly fantasy in this collection. Then there are another seven such images that expand across the book's central gutter, most to form full double-page-spreads (only one flunks-out in that presentation). And finally, they take the opportunity to slip in two more large painting reproductions. His painted comic & graphic-novel creation, The Mercenary, appears in a bit more than handful of the works. Almost all the paintings are faced with a blank white page that carries only a brief anecdote from Segrelles about the work (and there is one page of introduction from the artist). Know that almost all the text is Segrelles ladling out his tips & art-execution thought-processes which are interesting enough even to the non-painter readers. Unfortunately, only the anecdotes are provided, there are no titles or identifications of which specific volumes those cover-paintings graced.