EXTRACTS: Illustrators Crime Comics Special © 2020 Book Palace Books (144 pages in full edition)

66 ABOVE: Mildred Pierce — Phillips’ cover artwork for the Criterion Collection’s 2017 release of this iconic Joan Crawford film. Made in 1945 it was tailor-made for Crawford, and told the story of a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the social stigma of economic hardship.