DAVID WRIGHT'S CAROL DAY: LANCE HALLAM Deluxe Edition

Deluxe 19" x 14" hardcover volume...it's huge and beautifully produced cover to cover. Carol Day is a fashion model, elegant and assured in a world of intrigue, vividly brought to life in this much-acclaimed newspaper strip with multi-layered adult story lines and superbly detailed and atmospheric fine-line artwork. Created by artist David Wright, it was published in the Daily Mail. This handsome, deluxe, limited edition collects what many consider to be her best adventure sequence, the complete Lance Hallam story. Entirely from the original art in the large format full size of the originals!! Plus all kinds of bonus features, including full color pin-up art by Wright (which is what he's best known for). Forty-two pages of  Lance Hallam Art, scaned from full-size original art. Twenty-four pages of The Artistry of Lance Hallam, an essay on the style and techniques used. Thirty pages of Carol Day by Today’s Artists, fifteen artists’ interpretations of Carol Day. Fourteen pages of Lance Hallam Art Boards, the original art with its full margins at six to a page. Four pages of Acknowledgements, with the three editors giving thanks and mentions. Finally, four pages of Project Journey… with details on the website, gathering art, and producing the book. Many of these special features are in full color. Eighteen pages of The Elegant Art of David Wright, reprinting the feature article from Illustrators Quarterly #2. The publishers wanted to give readers the opportunity to savor the original art and to enjoy one of David Wright's best stories. This is obviously a labor of love, and with a very small limitation. Here's a link to an outstanding review of the book and dozens of pictures, to offer you the full story of this special edition. We've quoted from AEIndex below. https://aeindex.org/reviews/david-wrights-carol-day-lance-hallam/ The star of the book is the original art, presented at full size. All scans are clear and without issue; no softness or pixelation. Blacks show gradients. Pencil guidelines are visible in the word balloons. Correction fluid is used sparingly to clean up word balloons. To see Wright’s original artwork at full size is a revelation, if only to bask in the cross hatching. Wright was a master of the comic strip: panel layout, facial expressions, lighting, the flow of cloth, and on and on. "The production exudes quality, from the quarter cloth binding all the way through. The paper is 200 gsm with a medium gloss. The ancillary material grossly outnumbers the pages of original art two-to-one. The design and production are well worth the cost..." - Artist's Edition Index This is the first time a comic strip story has been reprinted in its original size and format from the original art. This was released a while back, but at the time we'd never heard of Carol Day. Siince then, Book Palace published a fine collection with the best of the Carol Day daily strips and upon receiving copies, we immediately became big fans. And so have many others...David Wright's Carol Day Showcase ($35) has immediately become a bestseller for us. I compare Wright's phot0-realistic work to that of Al Williamson's Secret Agent Corrigan, Alex Raymond (on Rip Kirby) and Leonard Star's Mary Perkins On Stage. - Bud Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. This comes packed in a secure, heavily protected cardboard box, similar to what you get with an Artist's Edition.