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Artist and teacher Glen Orbik passed away yesterday after a battle with cancer,. He was either 51 or 52 (Wikipedia says he was born in 1963.) Orbik was well known for his modern-day pulp-styled covers, and some striking work on several Marvel, DC and Vertigo titles, including the original run of Howard Chaykin’s American Century.
Orbik was well regarded as a teacher at the California Art Institute, where he himself went to school, studying under Fred Fixler. I have a big soft spot for pulp art and I was always a fan. Orbik’s covers were throwbacks to a less subtle era, but added elegance. You can find much more of his work at his website.
Stephen King will release a new novel with the pulp fiction publisher, Hard Case Crime. Publication is set for June 2013, and there will be no eBook edition initially.
King explained in a statement: “I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. That combo made Hard Case Crime the perfect venue for this book, which is one of my favorites. I also loved the paperbacks I grew up with as a kid, and for that reason, we’re going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being. Joyland will be coming out in paperback, and folks who want to read it will have to buy the actual book.”
The mystery will include a cover art from James Bond poster artist Robert McGinnis and Hard Case Crime cover artist Glen Orbik.
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For those of us who use it, Orbik has also provided the cover illustrations for the ComicBase collection-management software for the past several years. And the covers for the Hard Case Fiction crime novel line. Draw! Magazine featured a great with him, going into his process in detail, a while back (I don’t remember what issue number) — I’m not an artist myself (the ability to draw stick figures would be a step up for me) but the Orbik interview went into a level of detail that was perfect for my Aspergian mind.
” including the original run of Howard Chaykin’s American Century.”
So “John Van Fleet” is a pen name for Glen Orbik??
I loved his Hard Case Crime paperback covers. Here’s a tribute on their website, with a gallery of his covers:
http://www.hardcasecrime.com/events.shtml