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

[Scott Shaw!]

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!

[Roquefort Raider]

Sounds pretty good!!!

Congrats, Scott!

[Scott Shaw!]

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,

Scott!

[Roquefort Raider]

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.