:Mike Hinge

September 12th, 2009 | No Comments » |

Had this one in our bookmarks…

Anyone who remembers the days BEFORE Photoshop, Illustrator and all that which now seems to dominate the creative fields, will remember when illustration was done with pens, ink, paint and on paper and illustration board.

The 70′s and 80′s were the prime of Sci-Fi art and there were many great artists being published all over the place. Mike Hinge was one such artist, and his illustrations perhaps show the pinnacle one side of the period.

From Comicon:

“The New Zealand-born artist made Manhattan his home in 1966 and was a part of the science fiction and comics scene for the next few decades. He produced covers and interiors for numerous SF magazines and for mainstream venues, including several TIME covers. In the early 1970s, SUPERGRAPHICS published a collection of his techno-oriented work titled “The Mike Hinge Experience”.

Mr. Hinge’s super-detailed and elaborate art style predated the digital illustration revolution and many of the artist’s works foreshadowed the coming elegance and intricacy of computer art. In later years, PC technology caught up with him. According to friend Sanford Meschkow, “Sadly, the computer revolution in graphics in the 1990s was the effective cause of the early end of Mike’s professional career.”

Among Mr. Hinge’s last professional commissions was a cover for the large-format revival of AMAZING magazine in 1993.”

There is not much in the way of information online about Mike Hinge but there is a Wikipedia bio for him [here].

Sadly he died in 2003, aged 72.

 

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