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Spectrum The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art SC (1994-Present Underwood/Flesk) comic books

  • Issue #2-1ST
    Spectrum The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art SC (1994-Present Underwood/Flesk) 2-1ST

    Volume 2 - 1st printing. The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art edited by Cathy & Arnie Fenner Presenting an amazing selection of full color fantasy work by creators from around the world. Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 200 pages, full color. Cover price $27.50.

  • Issue #6-REP
    Spectrum The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art SC (1994-Present Underwood/Flesk) 6-REP

    Volume 6 - 2nd and later printings. Back In Print! Spectrum 6 includes work by SF genre favorites Michael Whelan, Don Maitz, Jim Burns, James Gurney, Donato Giancola, Bob Eggleton, Steve Hickman, Alex Ross, Charles Vess, and Joseph Michael Linsner, along with mainstream work by Kinuko Craft, Peter de Sève, Thom Ang, and David Bowers, and fine art by Kent Williams, Greg Spalenka, Dave McKean, and Jeffrey Jones among many others. Cover art by Hugo Award-winning British artist, Jim Burns. Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 176 pages, full color. Cover price $27.95.

  • Issue #11-1ST
    Spectrum The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art SC (1994-Present Underwood/Flesk) 11-1ST


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    Volume 11 - 1st printing. The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art edited by Cathy & Arnie Fenner Presenting an amazing selection of full color fantasy work by creators from around the world, the 11th installment in the Spectrum series is a feast of disparate vision and artistic imagining, showcasing over 300 artists, among them: Anita Kunz, Doug Chiang, John Howe, John Prude Palancer, Jon Foster, and Michael Whelan. Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 208 pages, full color. Cover price $29.95.

  • Issue #18-1ST
    Spectrum The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art SC (1994-Present Underwood/Flesk) 18-1ST

    Volume 18 - 1st printing. Challenging, controversial, educational, and irreverent, the award-winning Spectrum series reinforces both the importance and prevalence of fantastic art in today's culture. With exceptional images by extraordinary creators, this elegant full-color collection showcases an international cadre of creators working in every style and medium, both traditional and digital. The best artists from the United States, Europe, China, Australia, South America and beyond have gathered into the only annual devoted exclusively to works of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and the surreal, making Spectrum one of the year's highly most anticipated books. Featured in SPECTRUM 18 are 300 diverse visionaries, many of them world-renowned, including Michael Whelan, Sam Weber, Donato Giancola, Leo & Diane Dillon, Kinuko Craft, James Gurney, Peter de Sève. With art from books, graphic novels, video games, films, galleries, and advertising, Spectrum is both an electrifying art book for fans and an invaluable resource for clients looking for bright new talent. The entire field is discussed in an invaluable, found-nowhere-else Year In Review. Contact information for each artist is included in a handy index. Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 288 pages, full color. Cover price $29.95.

  • Issue #21-1ST
    Spectrum The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art SC (1994-Present Underwood/Flesk) 21-1ST

    Volume 21 - 1st printing.

    The best-selling Spectrum series continues with this twenty-first lavishly produced annual. Challenging, controversial, educational, and irreverent, the award-winning Spectrum series reinforces both the importance and prevalence of fantastic art in today's culture. With exceptional images by extraordinary creators, this elegant full-color collection showcases an international cadre of creators working in every style and medium, both traditional and digital. The best artists from the United States, Europe, China, Australia, South America and beyond have gathered into the only annual devoted exclusively to works of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and the surreal, making Spectrum one of the year's highly most anticipated books. Featured in SPECTRUM 21 are over 300 diverse visionaries, many of them world-renowned, including Paul Bonner, Donato Giancola, James Gurney, Iain McCaig, Shaun Tan, Sam Weber, Allen Williams. With art from books, graphic novels, video games, films, galleries, advertising and the fine arts, Spectrum is both an electrifying art book for fans and an invaluable resource for clients looking for bright new talent. The entire field is discussed in an invaluable, found-nowhere-else Year In Review. Contact information for each artist is included.

    Often imitated, never equaled, SPECTRUM 21 continues the freshness and excellence that was established twenty years ago.

    Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 304 pages, full color.

    NOTE: Vol. 21-Up published by Flesk.

    Cover price $35.00.

  • Issue #25-1ST
    Spectrum The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art SC (1994-Present Underwood/Flesk) 25-1ST


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    Volume 25 - 1st printing.

    The best-selling Spectrum series-often imitated but never equaled-continues with this lavishly produced 25th annual. Spectrum is the premier showcase for imaginative fantastic arts in the book, comic, film, horror, illustration, sculpture, conceptual art, fine art and video-game genres. With exceptional images by extraordinary creators, this elegant, full-color collection showcases an international cadre of creators working in every style and medium-both traditional and digital.

    This volume features nearly 500 works by more than 275 diverse visionaries, including Paul Bonner, J.A.W. Cooper, Olivia De Berardinis, Annie Stegg Gerard, Scott Gustafson, Edward Kinsella III, Gregory Manchess, Victo Ngai, Tran Nguyen, Greg Ruth, Yuko Shimizu, and many more. Spectrum 25 continues the freshness and excellence that was established twenty-five years ago.

    Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 304 pages, full color.

    Cover price $35.00.