ILLUSTRATORS BRITISH WAR COMICS SPECIAL STUDIO DAMI AND THE ITALIAN ARTISTS

"The second Illustrators special edition concentrates on the artists supplied by the studio of Italian artist and agent, Rinaldo D'Ami (aka Roy D'Amy). Regular readers of Illustrators will know that each issue of the regular quarterly is of the highest quality and filled with gorgeous colour artwork in a wide range of styles. The only difference here is that the book is fatter by about 50 pages.

The origins of the book lay in the rediscovery of over a thousand old War and Battle picture library covers in the Iron Mountain warehouse in Canning Town in the mid-2000s. I remember travelling up to London in September 2005 and meeting up with David Roach and Rufus Dayglo to look through pallets of artwork in a vast, cold hanger. This is where the colour covers had been discovered a couple of weeks earlier. Boxes of them. They became the basis of two books from Prion, Aarrgghh!! It's War (2007) andThe Art of War (2008).

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Overall it's an incredible volume, not only for fans of those old British war libraries but for any fan of military artwork or anyone who wants to know more about some of the talents behind many of the finest of British comics." - Bear Alley Books