Robert McGinnis

Robert McGinnis is an American artist and illustrator, who specifies in film posters and book covers. He was born in 1926, in Wyoming Ohio. He currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

 McGinnis has done posters for some major movies, including movies like: Breakfast at Tiffanys, Barbarella, several different James bond movie posters and he has done posters for Matt Helm.

McGinnis became an apprentice at Walt Disney studios, then studied fine art at Ohio State University. he entered advertising and a chance meeting with Mitchell Hooks in 1958 wich led him to be introduced to Dell Publishing. And then he began a career drawing a variety of paperback covers including Edward S. Aarons, Erle Stanley Gardner, Richard S. Prather, and the Michael Shayne and Carter Brown series.

McGinnis later did artwork for Ladies' Home Journal, Women's Home Companion, Good Housekeeping, TIME, Argosy, Guideposts, and The Saturday Evening Post. He  was main title designer for The Hallelujah Trail.

McGinnis's attention to detail was such that when he was assigned to do the artwork for Arabesque he requested Sophia Loren's tiger stripe dress is sent for him for a model to wear so he could get the right appearance.

Since 2004, McGinnis has created cover illustrations for the Hard Case Crime paperback series.

He is a member of the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. McGinnis is the subject of a documentary film, Robert McGinnis: Painting the Last Rose of Summer, by Paul Jilbert

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Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby born August 28, 1917,  died February 6, 1994 he was an American comic book artist, writer and editor. He drew various comic strips under different pen names, ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1941, Kirby and writer Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics.

He contributed to a number of publishers, including Archie Comics and DC Comics, but ultimately found himself at Timely's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, later to be known as Marvel Comics. In the 1960s, Kirby co-created many of Marvel Comics' major characters, including the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk.

Kirby moved on to comic-book publisher and newspaper syndicator Fox Feature Syndicate, He began exploring superhero narrative with the comic strip The Blue Beetle, During this time, Kirby met and began collaborating with cartoonist and Fox editor Joe Simon, who in addition to his staff work continued to freelance.

After leaving Fox and landing at pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman's Timely Comics, Simon and Kirby created the patriotic superhero Captain America in late 1940. Simon cut a deal with Goodman that gave him and Kirby 15 percent of the profits from the feature as well as salaried positions as the company's editor and art director, respectively. The first issue of Captain America Comics.

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Klaus Voorman

Klaus Voormann was born in 29 April 1938 he is a German Grammy Award-winning artist, noted musician, and record producer. He designed artwork for many bands including The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Wet Wet Wet and Turbonegro. His most notable work as a producer was his work with the band Trio, including their worldwide hit "Da Da Da". As a musician, Voormann is best known for being the bassist for Manfred Mann from 1966 to 1969, and for performing as a session musician on many recordings, including some by former members of the Beatles.

His association with the Beatles dated back to their time in Hamburg in the early 1960s. He lived in the band's London flat with George Harrison and Ringo Starr after John  Lennon and Paul McCartney moved out to live with their respective partners, and designed the cover of their album Revolver, for which he won a Grammy. Following the band's split, rumours circulated of the formation of a group named The Ladders, consisting of Lennon, Harrison, Starr and Voormann. This failed to materialise, outside of all four Ladders performing on the Ringo Starr track "I'm the Greatest", although Voormann did play on albums by Starr, Lennon and Harrison, and was for a time a member of the Plastic Ono Band. In the 1990s, he designed the artwork for the Beatles Anthology albums.

                                                                                                                     

Klaus got a job at an ad agency in London and was working there for about five months when he received a call from a friend, asking him if he wanted to play in a band. Klaus packed his bag and three days later he was back in Hamburg playing bass on stage! This was the beginning of Klaus’s musical career. This first band Klaus was a member of, Paddy, Klaus & Gibson, played in Germany at the Star Clubs. Later they went to England where they were booked at the Pickwick Club in London, a place frequented by high profile people.

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Robert Ginnis and Jack Kirby both work with colour, Klaus Voormann works in mono crome. Roberts work is more realistic and figeuritive  where as Jack Kirbys' work is more imaganative, Klaus Voormanns' work is a mixture of both as he has done album covers for the bee gees and othere musical groups which are more realistic, and he has been known to do comic strips which are more imaganative. Jack works mostly for magazine covers, Robert works more with movie posters, and Klaus works for musical groups creating there covers for there albums. they all work for major and popular employers like DC comics, James Bond, Bee Gees.