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Summary: WELL BALANCED VIEW OF AN ARTIST
Review: Ever since books of Frazetta's art were published in the '70s, everybody who is pretty good at cartoony/fantasy illustration gets a book of their stuff printed. It's like selling your portfolio, and a sign that you've "made it" to a certain level in your field. Joe Chiodo is good, especially at a certain kind of stylized girlie art that is real streamlined '50s style, with cool lava-lamp color combinations, similar to what Bill Wray is doing, and somewhat derived from Hanna-Barbera animation design of the '60s, and heavily influenced by Robert McGinness' crime detective femme fatale paperback book covers of the same era. The subject range in this book is not as great as on his website. Sometimes the girls' heads are too big. Is he any relation to the Chiodo brothers of "Killer Klown" fame? If you are into animation/motion picture design, you should take a look at your competition in this book. It's a fairly slim volumn, and it's not earthshaking (as Frazetta's work was) but the guy fills me with envy for his design ability.
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Summary: Good commercial art
Review: Ever since books of Frazetta's art were published in the '70s, everybody who is pretty good at cartoony/fantasy illustration gets a book of their stuff printed. It's like selling your portfolio, and a sign that you've "made it" to a certain level in your field. Joe Chiodo is good, especially at a certain kind of stylized girlie art that is real streamlined '50s style, with cool lava-lamp color combinations, similar to what Bill Wray is doing, and somewhat derived from Hanna-Barbera animation design of the '60s, and heavily influenced by Robert McGinness' crime detective femme fatale paperback book covers of the same era. The subject range in this book is not as great as on his website. Sometimes the girls' heads are too big. Is he any relation to the Chiodo brothers of "Killer Klown" fame? If you are into animation/motion picture design, you should take a look at your competition in this book. It's a fairly slim volumn, and it's not earthshaking (as Frazetta's work was) but the guy fills me with envy for his design ability.
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Summary: WELL BALANCED VIEW OF AN ARTIST
Review: FINALLY, a well balanced, well designed monograph about one of the best pin-up artists of the last twenty years. This book treats us to an informative over-view of Chiodo's career and a candid interview with the artist. We get a look at his past work and plenty of new pin-up, cartoon, and serious paintings as well. Chiodo deserves this well rounded art book. If you like Chiodo's work, and I do, this book provides excellant examples of the different directions the artist can go in and reproduces Chiodo's work quite accurately. I have seen some of the original paintings displayed in the book and the reproduction is top notch. My only complaint is I want more! Highly reccomended.
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Summary: A big disappointment
Review: I've enjoyed other collections of Mr. Chiodo's works, and that's the problem.This IS "other collections of Mr. Chiodo's works". Old material from his website abounds, & far too much text is crammed in.
I suspect an additional collection was mandated by contract with his publisher, & this was the result.
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Summary: This book is superb!!!!
Review: This is possibly the best book showcasing Joe Chiodo's art. All of the paintings in this book are all new and not reproduced anywhere. I know this cause I spoke to the publisher, the artist and his art rep and they all said that the art was new. The "reviewer" in TN has no idea of what he is talking about. As far as I know there are only 2 books on Chiodo's work and this is completely all new work!
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