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Greg Hildebrandt said in an Knight Ridder interview this week that he and his brother, who were born in Detroit, shared "an obsession with colour" so intense that it led them at age two to eat a box of crayons. He said he liked the taste. Newspaper comic strips introduced the brothers to art, he said. At 19 they worked on animations for Navy training films. In the 1950s, they did documentary film work on world hunger for Bishop J. Sheen.
In the late 1960s, they began illustrating children's books. Then, in 1976, came the first Lord of the Rings calendar. The calendar was Tim Hildebrandt's idea, his brother remembered. "I ante to pursue gallery art at that point, but Tim was pushing and pushing" on the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy," and then I read it and said 'OK.'" The Hildebrandt's agent, Jean Scrocco, recalled their extraordinary method for the 6-foot-wide paintings: One brother started at one end, and the other at the other end and they met in the middle. The calendar project was their studio's second best-known, after their poster for the 1977 movie Star Wars. "It's almost become iconic: Luke Skywalker with his light sabre thrust in the sky, Darth Vader's helmet in the background, Princess Leia at his feet," said Mike Chen, the director of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover, N.J., where Tim Hildebrandt taught for three years.
The brothers broke up in 1981 to go their own ways and
didn't speak for several years, Greg Hildebrandt said. In 1993, they reunited
and began doing art for comic-book publishers Marvel (Spider-Man, X-Men)
and DC (Superman) and, in 1995, a daily comic strip, an updated
version of Milt Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, which ran for only
a year. Greg Hildebrandt said of his brother: "He's in my hand, eyes, mind,
art, soul. He always has been from birth, and he still is."
Hoadley, Shaun
Shaun Raymond Hoadley
October 11, 1952 ~ Kalamazo, Michigan
Illustrations for ERBville Press Matched Editions
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133 Hoban, Frank
Frank Hoban (Artist)
Francis John Hoban was born on March 6, 1870 in
Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, John Hoban, was born 1835 in Ireland. His
mother, Ann Keenan, was born 1842 in Ireland. They married in 1861 and
had seven children, of which six were daughters. They lived at 487 Fourth
Street in Cincinnati. His father was a bill collector for the local gas
company. He studied at the Cincinnati Art Museum, which provided excellent
art training in night school classes for local teenagers and adult weekend
art classes. One of the more renowned teachers was Vincent Nowottny. Henry
C. Kiefer and John Drew also studied at the Cincinnati Art Museum. In 1890
Frank Hoban was listed in the Cincinnati business directory as a lithographer
at 487 West Fourth Street, which was in fact his family home. At that time
a "lithographer" was an artist who created black and white images for newspaper
advertisements and handbills, and was often affiliated with a printing
shop. In 1895 he married Theresa Bolger, who was born October 13, 1874
in Ohio. Her parents were also Irish immigrants. They lived at 948 West
Seventh Street in Cincinnati. They had three children. Edward was born
1896, Dorothy in 1902, and Mary was born in 1906. In 1909 they moved to
2217 Hudson Avenue in Norwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, where he worked
full-time at the printing plant of the Strobridge Lithographic Company.
In 1914 he illustrated Virginia Brooks novel Little Lost Sister, which
was published in Chicago by Gazzolo & Ricksen. In 1916 his illustrations
appeared in Red Book Magazine, which was published by the McCall Company.
That same company also produced McCall's Magazine, and eventually published
the pulp adventure magazine Blue Book. In 1920 he moved to Chicago, Illinois,
where they lived at 79 Winthrop Avenue. In 1930 his illustrations were
published in the pulp magazine Triple-X, an adventure magazine produced
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by Fawcett Publications. By 1926 his story illustrations
and cover paintings appeared regularly in the pulp magazine Blue Book.
According to Robert R. Barrett, "The June 1926 issue of Blue Book was the
first to place spot illustrations throughout a story. Prior to that the
magazine had used only illustrated headings, which was the custom with
most pulps. The July 1926 issue was the first to feature the drawings of
Frank Hoban, who illustrated "Mountain Mail" by Reginald Barker. Throughout
the remaining months of 1926 Hoban illustrated one story per issue. By
the last months of 1927 he was illustrating two, three, and occasionally
four stories per issue." In 1931 he joined the Chicago artists club, Palette
& Chisel, which was located at 1012 North Dearborn Street. His $48
annual fee entitled him to attend a weekly life drawing class, inclusion
in one annual exhibition, and a Summer Camp at Fox Lake, IL. Membership
was limited to 110 local artists. He served as Vice President of the club
in 1931 and 1932. In 1938 he illustrated the Little Big Book #-1400 Mac
Of The Marines In China, published by Whitman Publications of Racine Wisconsin.
Frank J. Hoban died in Chicago, IL, at the age of seventy-three on June
12, 1943.~ © David Saunders 2009
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