Sep 10 2012
Originals #24: Ian Gibson – 2000ad Prog 80 cover
Ian Gibson – ‘Robo Hunter’ illustration, 1978
(430 x 360 mm, black ink on art board).
2000ad Prog 80 cover.
Posted on Monday, September 10th, 2012 at 9:56 pm under Originals. You can follow these comments using the RSS feed. You can trackback from your own site or leave a comment below..
Having chatted with Ian Gibson about the long-lost Verdus artwork recently, seeing this gives me goosebumps… Early Sam Slade represents some of my earliest and fondest memories of 2000AD; amazing stuff. Lovely to see this, Kev.
Comment by David Rees on September 11, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Absolutely, this, along with the Kev O’Neill’s of the same time, are the jewels in my original art collection. This was one of the very first pieces I bought and, in hindsight, I was extremely lucky to get such a prize piece as there weren’t so many people collecting back then.
It sits on the wall to the right of my monitors and when I was searching for a space-related title for a track on the album I happened to glance up at it and the immortal line ‘In Orbit Every Monday’ made the decision for me.
Comment by kev on September 11, 2012 at 9:29 pm