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Wm. Kaluta is one of the most influential artists of the
last 30 years. Arguably best known for his revival of Conde-Naste’s
iconic hero The Shadow , Kaluta has created a impressive
array of covers for every major comics company since the early 1970s.
In the mid-70s, he joined with artists Jeffrey Jones, Berni Wrightson,
and Barry Windsor-Smith for form the legendary collective known
as The Studio. While there, Kaluta continued to branch out from
comic book work and painted numerous book covers and posters—including
a lengthy run on Conan —and also began illustrating Starstruck
, written by playwright Elaine Lee. His manifold accomplishments
are too numerous to run down in a single paragraph, but some of
the highlights include
- Decades
of production and character design, style visualizations, and
concept artwork at studios such as Disney, Universal, and Warner
Brothers on projects including The Shadow , Darkman
, Superman , and Osmosis Jones
- Similar
television work including The Flash , The Human Target
, and reinterpreting all of the classic Universal monsters
for an animated project
- Character,
environment, and prop design for video games from the likes of
Sega and Sony, among countless others
- Album
covers and t-shirts for the likes of Glenn Danzig and Black Sabbath
- Innumerable
television and print advertising campaigns
- A
painted JRR Tolkien/ Lord of the Rings calendar
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