This stunning art book takes you on a visual journey through one of the most iconic game artists of all time – Oliver Frey.
Packed with high-resolution imagery and insightful features, “The Fantasy Art of Oliver Frey” is the ultimate collection of Oliver’s work, alongside a detailed biography and fascinating features.
If you were a gamer of the 80s and 90s, there will be a great deal of artwork in this book that you will recognise, featuring art from classic publications including ZZAP!64, CRASH, FEAR and more.
Oliver Frey worked on some of Britain’s greatest comic institutions – The Fleetway War Picture Library, Dan Dare in Eagle and the Trigan Empire in Look & Learn, as well as his celebrated 1930’s-style opening sequence for the film Superman: The Movie. But for an entire generation in the 1980’s it is Frey’s extraordinary art on the covers of cult computer games magazines that came to express the exuberance and sheer excitement of the games they played.
Presented as a hardback, with a stylish dust cover, this is a perfect addition to any retro gamers library.
Features
- Stunning artwork from Oliver Frey’s iconic history
- Extended Edition: 248 pages
- Classic art from such games and licenses such as: Street Fighter, Streets of Rage, Blues Brothers, Batman, Alien, Predator, Mortal Kombat, Robocop and much more!
- Classic art from historical publications including ZZAP!64, CRASH, FEAR and more!
- Forward by Roger M. Kean
- Chapters
– Foreword
– Biography (The Early Years)
– Biography (A Boom In Video Games)
– Biography (Crashing Into The Bigtime)
– 1. Monsters and Aliens
– 2. Space Manoeuvres
– 3. Mechanical Mayhem
– 4. The Gaming Experience
– 5. Sporting Characters
– 6. Gore, Grue and Dysfunction
– 7. Heroes and Villains
– 8. Weird and Wonderful
