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ASK A GREG TWO

Greg Ruth

So,  for those of you unaware, this is the second round of Q&A's collected by asking the public on social media to submit questions- any question at all related to art and artmaking as a career or a simple hobby,  I have plucked a few that seemed helpful to you here reading this. I do a lot of interviews but most of them are really specific to the project they are there to promote or…

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Bob & Brad

Arnie Fenner

April 21, 2025 - In the past month we've lost two absolute legends of the Illustration community, Robert E. McGinnis [above left] at the age of 99 on March 10 and Brad Holland [above right] at the age of 81, following heart surgery on March 27. Renowned for his paperback covers—over 1300 of them!—hundreds of magazine illustrations, dozens of classic movie posters, and numerous gallery paintings, Bob McGinnis was an artist’s artist and, quite simply, one of the best of the best. He started his career as a teenage apprentice at the Walt Disney Studios before enlisting in the Merchant Marine during World War II. Following the war Robert joined the Fredman Chaite Studios where he created all sorts of advertising art while working with Frank McCarthy and Robert "Bob" Peak. A chance meeting with Mitchell Hooks in 1958…

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