Peter Stanbury
Peter Stanbury chose a single panel from the story “Joe’s Bar”—by the Argentinian illustrator José Muñoz—blown up hugely for the first black and white cover for Escape magazine. “I wanted to show everyone just how dark and dramatic comics could be without using the American comic-book style of drawing.” The complete twenty-page story “Joe’s Bar”...
DetailsIssue Nine of Escape Magazine had a large feature on Spanish comics, “Especial Espana” with a cover by Spanish illustrator, Fernando Vicente, taken from a silk-screen print, with an inset of the Tempter in Glenn Dakin‘s Temptation—perfectly in keeping with the greed and lust of the main...
DetailsWith issue eight, Escape Magazine leapt to a larger, 210mm by 280mm format allowing the editors to include larger comic-strip artwork from Europe....
DetailsThe A5 Escape Magazine hit issue six with a snarling, punk collage wraparound cover by Andy Dog, real name Andy Johnson....
DetailsEscape Magazine was A5 in size and had a wraparound cover by Phil Elliott, Peter Stanbury hand-separated the colours. These earliest issues had a hand-drawn...
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