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    Exclamation Photo Finish: Dark Horse's THE ARTIST WITHIN By Greg Preston!

    THE ARTIST WITHIN -- PORTRAITS OF CARTOONISTS, COMIC BOOK ARTISTS, ANIMATORS, AND OTHERS is a new Dark Horse book of black-and-white photo-portraits of creators in their studios, all shot by my friend, top-notch professional photographer Greg Preston. Nearly fourteen years in the making*, it just hit bookstores today and I highly recommend it to you all. THE ARTIST WITHIN is a classy item that elevates the field of cartooning and its practicioners and Greg should be very proud of it. He certainly put enough effort, time and miles into shooting all of the photo portraits!

    (The book not only features an Introduction by Yours Truly (I was the person who suggested the project to Greg in the first place) and my portrait, but also one of my CAPTAIN CARROT pages that never made it into DC's TEEN TITANS No. 31.)

    THE ARTIST WITHIN includes photos of (with accompanying biographies and art samples):

    Jack Kirby
    Burne Hogarth
    Sergio Aragonés
    Art Spiegleman
    Mort Walker
    Victor Moscoso
    Jules Feiffer
    Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez
    Rick Detorie
    Kevin Eastman
    Jean Giraud (Moebius)
    Mell Lazarus
    Alex Toth
    Neal Adams
    Russ Heath
    Stan Sakai
    Carl Barks
    Robert Williams
    Berni Wrightson
    J. Scott Campbell
    Mort Drucker
    Mark Silvestri
    Will Eisner
    Bil Keane
    Howard Chaykin
    Arthur Adams
    Creig Flessel
    Scott Shaw!
    Eric and Susan Goldberg
    Ed "Big Daddy" Roth
    Patrick McDonnell
    Dave Stevens
    Jim Silke
    Chuck Jones
    Cathy Guisewte
    Michael Allred
    Jim Lee
    Mike Mignola
    Jim Starlin
    Joe Kubert
    Peter Kuper
    Jack Davis
    Russell Myers
    Shary Flenniken
    Matt Wagner
    Bill Morrison
    William Stout
    Barry Windsor-Smith
    John Cassaday
    Angelo Torres
    Al Williamson
    Marie Severin
    Jerry Robinson
    Gus Arriola
    John Romita, Sr.
    Tony Millionaire
    Joe Barbera
    Morrie Turner
    Peter Bagge
    John Callahan
    Eldon Dedini
    Mark Schultz
    Walter Simonson
    Arnold Roth
    Joe Simon
    Dan O'Neill
    Craig Thompson
    Dave Berg
    Johnny Hart
    Bruce Timm
    Jill Thompson
    Paul Chadwick
    Brian Crane
    Olivia De Berardinis
    Alex Ross
    Mitch O'Connell
    Carol Lay
    Robert Crumb
    Joe Quesada
    Gary Gianni
    Tim Sale
    Gahan Wilson
    Edward Sorel
    Joyce Chin
    Berkeley Breathed
    Gary Baseman
    Josh Agle (Shag)
    Jim Valentino
    Coop
    Todd McFarlane
    Bret Blevins
    Adrian Tomine
    Frank Cho
    Amanda Conner
    Jimy Palmiotti
    Peter De Seve
    Michael William Kaluta
    Kyle Baker
    Frank Miller
    John Severin
    Al Hirschfeld

    >Whew!< It's a real honor to be among so many friends and heroes of mine in this wonderful book. I have a feeling I'm going to be signing a lot of copies of THE ARTIST WITHIN at SDCCI!

    For more information on THE ARTIST WITHIN ($39.95), please visit Dark Horse's website at http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=13-177

    Aloha,

    Scott!

    *As you'll note from the list of artists included, many of them have since passed during the length of the book's production time. -- SS!
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    Sounds pretty good!!!

    Congrats, Scott!

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    Thanks, but it's Greg who deserves to be congratulated.

    You can see a few of THE ARTIST WITHIN's impressive interior pages here:

    http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/pre...p?theid=13-177

    Aloha,

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    It's great to finally be able to put faces on people whose fame comes from their work rather than how they look.

    (On a slightly different subject, seeing Jean Giraud (Moebius) there reminds me of the pleasant surprise I had last year when buying a dictionary for my kids and finding out it contained pages and pages of gorgeous new material by the creator of Lt. Blueberry).

    I'm not surprised it took so long to photograph all these artists; it is indeed an impressive list.

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