Mitchell Hooks
American artist and illustrator
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Mitchell Hooks (1923 [1] – March 2013) [2] was an American artist and illustrator known for his artwork for paperback books and magazines.
Biography
Hooks was born in Detroit , Michigan and attended Cass Technical High School . He joined the United States Army as an infantryman in 1944 and deployed to Germany after World War II for occupation duty . He became a second lieutenant. He then began his freelance illustration career in New York City . [3]
He painted paperback covers for Avon , Bantam Books , Dell Books , Fawcett Publications and others, and illustrated for magazines including Cosmopolitan , The Saturday Evening Post , The Ladies' Home Journal , Redbook , McCall's , and Woman's Day . [3] He illustrated romance novels , [4] science fiction and crime fiction , such as Ross Macdonald 's Lew Archer , Peter Corris 's Cliff Hardy and B.B. Johnston's Superspade series. [5]
Hooks illustrated the 36-page booklet How to Respect and Display Our Flag for the U.S. Marine Corps . [6] He also designed film posters , including the first James Bond movie, Dr. No — for which he painted "the iconic image of Sean Connery as Bond" [7] — and The Face of Fu Manchu .
In later years he also illustrated hardcover books for The Franklin Library , Reader's Digest Books and Coronado Publishers , and did advertising art. [3]
Hooks was 89 when he died. [2]
Awards
In 1999, he was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. [8]
References
- ↑ "Mitchell Hooks (1923 – )" at AskArt.com. Retrieved on 22 March 2013.
- 1 2 "Mitchell Hooks (1923-2013)" . MI6-HQ.com. March 22, 2013 . Retrieved March 23, 2013 .
- 1 2 3 Reed, Walt (2001). The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 . The Society of Illustrators . p. 347. ISBN 978-0942604801 . Via excerpt at AskArt.com .
- ↑ McKnight-Trontz, Jennifer (2001). The Look of Love:The Art of the Romance Novel . Princeton Architectural Press . p. 16 . ISBN 1568983123 .
- ↑ Smith, Kevin. "Dare to Judge This Book: Great Paperback Cover Artists" . ThrillingDetective.com . Retrieved 22 March 2013 .
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U.S. Marine Corps, ed.; Mitchell Hooks, illustrator (1973).
How to Respect and Display Our Flag
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U.S. Government Printing Office
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ISBN
978-0735250086
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link ) - ↑ Nourmand, Tony (2004). James Bond Movie Posters: The Official 007 Collection . Chronicle Books . p. 11 . ISBN 978-0811844659 .
- ↑ "Hall of Fame" . Society of Illustrators . Retrieved 22 March 2013 .
External links
- Mitchell H. Hooks Obituary
- Mitchell Hooks paperback covers
- Lovisi, Gary (1988). "A Visit with Mitchell Hooks" . Paperback Parade . No. 7. Gryphon Books . Retrieved 22 March 2013 . . Reprinted with permission. Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4
Further reading
"The Paperback Art of Mitchell Hooks", Illustration Magazine 10
Society of Illustrators
' Hall of Fame
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