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The Movie Posters of Drew Struzan

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I've been an avid fan of Drew Struzan's artwork for movie posters, or "one-sheets" since 1984. The first poster I ever saw his magnificent work on was for the first "Back To The Future" movie. His ability to capture the exact likenesses of the stars and personalities over the years still gives me goosebumps to this day. I have amassed a huge collection of most of his movie poster work, and works in others medium like for collector plates, stamps, book covers, etc. This book showcases most of his movie poster artwork seen on the U.S. one-sheets over the years. I was suprised that some of the familiar posters were missing from this book. Overall the work is presented well in full color, full page glory. I'm looking forward to the bigger, more comprehensive book "Oeuvre" that will cover all of his works up to now. This book is a good appetizer for the main course that will be "Oeuvre" later this month. If you're a fan of Drew Struzan, as I am, pick up this book. It will help to whet your appetite for "Oeuvre". Long live Drew Struzan...the last of his kind. The movie poster illustrator.

-Mike Buckley

Like many film fans, Drew Struzan represents a higher class in movie poster art. His work is admired not only by enthusiasts but Steven Spielberg, George lucas, Frank Darabont, Mike Mignola and many other high-profile A- class vissionary film makers. This is an excellent book charting Struzan's amazing art from Star Wars to The Lost World. I already have original cinema posters like Back to the Future and Star Wars that look great, and its fantastic to have such rich and wonderful art collected in one book. As soon as I bought it, I knew I had somethign special. A must-have for any film buff. Buy it now, and you'll love it, this is movie art at its finest.

This is a MUST HAVE for movie lovers and fans of advertising art alike. Drew Struzan is a true master at what he does. Unlike many other movie poster artists, Drew paints each of his works by hand and has an amazing ability to capture the likeness of his subjects and preserve them in such an epic fashion. What a delight to discover that none of his posters were ever created by means of photo-manipulation!

There are several pages at the beginning with fun and interesting background history on his career, but the rest of the book is a fabulous gallery of his poster paintings. Each page has full color glossy prints of his movie posters, and many of them in their original form before text, titles, and bylines were added. I had a lot of fun turning each page to find yet another gorgeous movie poster from a favorite film. Aside from the "GREATS" that are instantly recognizable as Drew's work (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, E.T., Back to the Future, Harry Potter ...), I was pleased to discover that many other favorite movies that I've loved throughout my life were also illustrated by Drew, such as Police Academy, Muppets movies, Mallrats, Ladyhawk, Adventures in Babysitting, Goonies ... the list goes on.

Buy this book, it's wonderful!

When I first saw the title "The Movie Posters of Drew Struzan". I thought it was the Movie posters... Movie poster looks better with the titles and fine prints. As much as I loved Drew's work but somehow I still would have prefer it in a Movie poster format, not just the art piece. It was the reason I bought this book after the same mistake I did when I purchased "Drew Struzan: Oeuvre".

I hope Drew will publish a book with the true collection of the posters... not just the art...

Drew Sturuzan has created the posters to some of the biggest and most successful movies ever made and a lot of those posters are this collection. The book is A4 paper in height sized and a bit wider meaning that although not the actual size of the posters, they're still big enough to put up on the walls or your TV room. The pages are back to back though so if you do this you'll lose being able to see the film on the back so maybe you'll want to get two copies. As well as 98 posters there's also a foreword by George Lucas as well as ten pages or so of information on Drew Stuzan.

Some of the posters inside are
The Indiana Jones trilogy
Original Star Wars trilogy as well as rerelease posters
Back to the Future trilogy
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a couple of Police Academy sequels (3 & 4)
a few Muppet movies
Mallrats
Harry Potter
First Blood
Coming to America
Crocodile Hunter
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Cannonball Run
Big Trouble in Little China

A great collection that either fans of art or of movies will enjoy.

Great book - except for page 12, which appears to be misprinted. It starts with the last few words of a sentence "...Scott's Blade Runner." From there it goes on to discuss Drew's art for that film. However, the art shown is a detail from his poster for THE GOONIES. I returned the book to amazon for a replacement, but the replacement was flawed as well (and so it too, was returned). That may or may not be a dealbreaker for you. It was for me. Otherwise, the book is great and makes a great companion to THE ART OF DREW STRUZAN.

SPECIFICS:
Page Count: 120
Number of images: 110
Small images: 11
Half page images:
Full page images: 98
2-page spreads: 1
BW images:

TEXT:
Foreword/Introduction: 13 pages

ART:
19 images: 5 stars
24 images: 4 stars
41 images: 3 stars
26 images: 2 stars

Overall: 3,5 Stars

This was wanted by a friend for "drawing" purposes. It's exactly what my friend wanted.

Was a bit dissappointed since the book does not delve much into the techniques he used or the story behind each poster. What inspired him etc.
However, we do get a collection of his works gorgeously reproduced.