EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 25 © 2019 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

45 certain point to rest awhile and the other brother continued. Born in 1939 in Detroit, the Hildebrandt twins, Greg being five minutes older than Tim, grew up reading comic books and comic strips of the era, watching science-fiction and horror films, and admiring the art of N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. Their father George had taught them how to colour with crayons, and soon they were copying images from the Walt Disney cartoons. They dreamed of one day working for Disney. They Text continues on page 49 ABOVE: Body and Soul , acrylic on board, 2005. Number 35 in the ‘American Beauties’ series, resembling a Hollywood movie star from the 1950s.