What, Me Panic? Celebrating Angelo Torres - Society of Illustrators Exhibition Catalog - Signed

Product Code: 62367
What, Me Panic? Celebrating Angelo Torres - Society of Illustrators Exhibition Catalog - Signed
What, Me Panic? Celebrating Angelo Torres - Society of Illustrators Exhibition Catalog - Signed
What, Me Panic? Celebrating Angelo Torres - Society of Illustrators Exhibition Catalog - Signed
What, Me Panic? Celebrating Angelo Torres - Society of Illustrators Exhibition Catalog - Signed

What, Me Panic? Celebrating Angelo Torres - Society of Illustrators Exhibition Catalog - Signed

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Signed by Angelo Torres on the cover. The catalog for the 2022 exhibition at the Society of Illustrators. 54 originals reproduced in color, mostly full page.

The program book contains essays and tributes by Annie Gaines Ashton, Sergio Aragonés, Thommy Burns, Ray Cuthbert, Dick DeBartolo, John Ficarra, Grant Geissman, Roger Hill, S.C. Ringgenberg, William Stout, Sam Viviano and more. Never-before-seen photographs, artwork and memorabilia relating to the Fleagles, EC Comics, Warren Publications and MAD are included as well as a sneak preview of the upcoming Fantagraphics graphic novel featuring the art of Angelo Torres.

Angelo Torres is duly famous for his nearly four decades with MAD magazine illustrating some of the most hilarious and brilliantly drawn movie and television parodies. What may be less familiar is what came before and what he has created since. And in his ninetieth year, Torres is producing some of his best work ever, often with a nod to his illustration roots.

He and his creative friends, dubbed the Fleagle Gang by the EC Comics staff -- Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, Nick Meglin and George Woodbridge -- often collaborated with one another, sometimes credited and often not, to create some of the most beautiful illustrations in comic and fantasy art history.

On his own (or sometimes working with Williamson), Torres drew stories for Atlas, Charlton, Harvey, Classics Illustrated, DC, Marvel and many other publishers during his career. His work for Warren's Creepy, Eerie and Blazing Combat in the sixties showed his fans what he might have done if EC had continued its comic book titles. With the more illustrative style of the Warren magazines, Torres was finally able to demonstrate his mastery of composition, mood and expression like no other.

At the strong urging of Torres's old friend Nick Meglin, MAD editor Al Feldstein asked Torres to join the magazine in 1969, where he remained until he retired in 2007. Torres has been widely lauded for his biting satirical work and his contributions in general to the field of comic art. He is a recipient of the National Cartoonists Society Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award, the Comic Con International Ink Pot Award and the Southeast Chapter of the NCS Cartoonist of the Year Jack Davis Award.

Since his "retirement," Torres has embarked on a broad range of projects, including commissions of familiar and beloved characters, re-imaginings of "might have been" comic book covers, and devising and designing artwork for a soon-to-be published Fantagraphics graphic novel adaptation of science-fiction and comic book legend Otto Binder's The Unwanted.

Romita, John

Condition & Attributes

Very light crease to the lower corner otherwise Very Fine

Publishing Information

New York
Society of Illustrators
2022
1st

Physical Description

11 inches
7.5 inches
68 pages
56 color illustrations
Softcover
wraps
English

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