Английская Википедия:Glen Orbik

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox artist Glen Orbik (1963 – May 11, 2015) was an American illustrator known for his fully painted paperback and comic covers, often executed in a noir style.

In the 1970s, Orbik and his mother moved to Douglas County, Nevada. He is a 1981 graduate of Douglas High School in Minden, Nevada. He studied art at the California Art Institute then located in Encino, later Calabasas, California, and now located in Westlake Village.Шаблон:Citation needed He studied under the school's founder, retired movie and advertisement illustrator Fred Fixler.

Orbik eventually took over the classes when Fixler retired from teaching and taught figure drawing after returning from an extended hiatus.Шаблон:Citation needed His work has been compared to Alex Ross and Robert McGinnis,Шаблон:Citation needed and he was a popular teacher among fine art, comic, and video game artists.Шаблон:Citation needed He most recently worked on a series of paperback covers for the Hard Case Crime series of novels.

Orbik resided in Van Nuys, California. He died on May 11, 2015, of cancer.

Works

Covers

• The Swimmer DVD/Blu-ray (digital restoration) release
• Stephen King novella Blockade Billy
• Barbara Hambly novel Annie Steelyard and the Garden Of Emptiness: An Honorary Man
• Cover to Stephen King novels, The Colorado Kid and Joyland
• 25th anniversary edition of Stephen King novel It
• Joe R. Lansdale novella Hyenas: a Hap and Leonard Novella
• Joe R. Lansdale novella Dead Aim
• George Axelrod novel Blackmailer

Other

• "The Inspirations of Oz Fine Art Collection" (participant)

External links

• The Artwork of Glen Orbik, official website bio, and gallery of Orbik and companion, Laurel Blechman's work
• Hard Case Crime series of reprinted and original pulp fiction novels, some illustrated by Orbik
• Шаблон:Cite web

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