Limited Edition Suydam Cover featured on "Infected by Art" Coffee Table Volume!

Suydam cover for the new deluxe coffee table book.

For Immediate Release

November 29, 2015

“Infected by Art” Deluxe Collector's Volume Features Limited Edition Arthur Suydam Cover!

New York, NY— “Infected by Art,” the new deluxe hard-cover coffee table book featuring the world’s finest  fantasy, horror and sci-fi illustrators, has just been released with a limited edition run of 500 copies, featuring the stunning cover work by  award  winning  artist / writer,  Zombie King, Arthur Suydam. 

Written by Todd Spoor and Aaron Raymond and on Bud Plant’s “highly recommended” list,  “Infected by Art” features over 300 images of work’s  in the categories of fantasy, horror illustration and science fiction broken down into five categories competing  for  prizes.  Winning artists  were selected  by a  panel-jury comprised of   four  all-star judges, this year including: Suydam, horror  legends Basil Gogos and Sanjulian, and sci-fi cover artist Ken Kelly .

The books dust jacket explains it all: “The art comprised within is simply the most imaginative thought-provoking and creative art on the market today.” Featuring artists from the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, etc. -- truly making this a world-wide collaboration of exceptional works.

Suydam was selected  to join the alumni of distinguished judges for this year’s installment of “Infected by Art,”   based on his groundbreaking  work  on Marvel Zombies and a sequence of zombie  themed titles over the last ten years which helped prompt a worldwide zombie  pop culture explosion,  extending to TV, film, gaming, merchandising (Note: Hot Topic), and making the word "zombie" truly a household word.  Listed in the book of  the "Top 100 Greatest Comic Artists of  all  Time ,”   Suydam and contemporaries, the likes of Richard Corben, are credited with revolutionizing comics in the  70s  and  80s themselves, by first introducing painted fine art techniques and a fresh, mature  storytelling  into U.S. mainstream comics, helping to open doors for the  writers and artists in the  years that followed. 

The most recent in a line of books on this celebrated artist has just been released as a deluxe coffee table volume, entitled "The Complete Cholly and Flytrap," from Titan Publishing, while previous books on Suydam include "The Art of Arthur Suydam," from Vanguard, and "The Art of the Barbarian" from Eva Ink / Heavy Metal, among others.

Suydam comes by his painting instincts naturally: Great Uncles on his father's side, James Suydam and Henry Suydam were both among the dozen artists who won  American  painters recognition on the world stage  for the  first  time  at  the outbreak of the  Civil  War,  circa 1861 and became  known as the Hudson River Painters --a collection of landscape  artists credited with reinventing the world of fine art at that time. In the  20s and  30s, E.H. Suydam became one  of America’s most  celebrated  architectural artists with artworks now hanging in the White House, Museum of New York and the National Academy Museum  and  more.  It's a fair bet,  that Suydam’s mother, Juliette, a native of Montreal, herself an avid painter may have contributed  to instilling an appreciation of the arts into her three sons, as well.

Zombie King, Arthur Suydam’s own work graces both the front and back cover of 500 limited editions of “Infected by Art” and additionally is featured in a beautiful three page spread of  never before published, unedited,  master works, including the  complete  wrap around cover painting  for his much  celebrated  “The  Walking  Dead"  #1 " variant cover ,  all in the intro section of this culmination of today’s top illustrators .

Publisher: Authorhouse, 2013

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket 

Dimensions: 9x11

Pages: 308pg

Color: Full Color

ISBN: #9781481760843

Back cover features a Suydam Album Cover.

  

Montreal Comic Con! Overall... the Best of Times.... (Addressing the Table Issue)

Hi Folks—

In response to the posts about the Montreal Comic Con this weekend and the table placement for artists at the show:

There has been a little turbulence due to a tweet made by an artist at the show, who had no knowledge of what occurred behind the scenes that necessitated some of us not being where we were supposed to be on the map. Not knowing what really transpired, this has led to a great deal of misinformation on the internet... as usual. Big surprise.

So, here's what happened as we witnessed it,  below.

As the booking agent for a group of artists at the convention, including Mike Zeck, Michael Golden and others:

When we arrived for set up on Thursday, there was a snafu with the table lineups for all the artists. None of the agreed table amounts were accounted for.  In order to correct the problem, everyone had to be moved.

The Montreal Comic Con, much to their credit, stepped in and found solutions for all the table placements, so that all artists had their agreed upon table amounts!

Arthur Suydam moved actually to allow fulfillment of tables for some of my group -- (he had been placed right in the middle of the two Michaels, all with inadequate space). 

But hey, several people had table issues that needed to be addressed that added to the Tetris Game:  I had been placed across the room, another one of our guys had been placed even somewhere else and was incorrectly christened as "Jerry." :-)  Yanick had 3 tables, one of which was on a different row...Again, seemingly simple stuff to fix, that nobody was aware of unless they were there for set up. 

Arthur then got permission to move once more due to space limitations. (The first table relocation wouldn’t work because of the size configuration— which was my fault for thinking it would— as it turned out, he needed a linear space, not an L-Shape. )


Nobody was upset....These things happen. It's a big show. You just arrive for set up. Check out your space, and  if there are problems, you ask the organizers what to do, offer suggestions, and work things out.

Later, when Arthur became aware that there was some discontent, he volunteered to do what he could with the show promoters, to make the other artists happy, when it became evident that they were not aware of the logistical moves that were made on Thursday. Several people are witness to that conversation. He even said he'd move for them. 

At that point he had paid for electricity in the new approved spot  and the other artists seemed happy in their spots with added tables etc. Dan said he didn't want to move and Francis seemed fine with more tables. At least that's what they said when Arthur, myself and several other people met to discuss it with them in person. (Isn't that a novel idea.)  I didn't meet Rachel until later in the weekend, but spoke with her as well.

In Short: No changes were made without the shows knowledge and no artist made any arbitrary changes on their own.   Any artist there for set up was informed of the changes, and I'm sure others, who weren't there for set up, were told as soon as they could be told.

As Yanick suggested to me, perhaps we all should have considered a simple statement saying there were "Last minute Floor Changes necessary after the printing of the program" and that would have sufficed! It's not the first show where placements have been off, afterall! 

So, in the end, NONE of us were where we were originally supposed to be on the map. But it appears that all the fans found us anyway and everyone had a great time at the event. The fans were tremendous, actually!

I can’t fault the show in any way either. They’ve been wonderful.

So, thanks to the Montreal Comic Con for their support and willingness to fix any situations that did arise. And thanks to everyone that come to see all the talent at the show.

Best,
Renee Witterstaetter