Edgar Rice Burroughs Visions of Adventure
A Collection of Extraordinary Art by Mark Wheatley
Insight Studios and Mark Wheatley, by arrangement with Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., are thrilled to be able to offer Mark's first Edgar Rice Burroughs VISIONS OF ADVENTURE portfolio, collecting eight exceptional paintings that bring-to-life the much-loved creations of the Master of Adventure!
A young Mark Wheatley's imagination was completely captured by Edgar Rice Burroughs when he discovered a pristine copy of the original TARZAN AND THE JEWELS OF OPAR in his grandfather's book case. Before long Mark was building tree houses and having his own jungle adventures. Years later, after he was already an award-winning artist, he became an illustrator and writer for TARZAN and other popular Edgar Rice Burroughs creations.
The Edgar Rice Burroughs VISIONS OF ADVENTURE portfolio. This Kickstarter project is to fund a high-quality artist edition portfolio featuring a curated group of the best of Mark Wheatley's Edgar Rice Burroughs paintings.
In the early 1990s Mark Wheatley became the editor and occasional illustrator of the Tarzan comics. He also wrote the TARZAN THE WARRIOR comic book series that re-introduced the entire cast of characters for a new generation of comic book readers. In the years since, between Mark's work on his own popular creations, he has illustrated several other Edgar Rice Burroughs creations, including the TARZAN AND THE DARK HEART OF TIME novel by Philip José Farmer and the SWORDS AGAINST THE MOON MEN novel by Christopher Paul Carey, as well as development and design work for Burroughs TV and live stage productions. His enthusiasm for the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs has only grown stronger over the years and the Burroughs fans have awarded him with the Mucker Award and the Golden Lion Award for his many contributions. Now that there is a new wave of exciting creations coming from the Edgar Rice Burroughs company, the time is ripe to present the Edgar Rice Burroughs VISIONS OF ADVENTURE portfolio.
The central reward for this campaign is the Edgar Rice Burroughs VISIONS OF ADVENTURE portfolio. The Special Edition of this portfolio comes in an illustrated folder, and holds eight rich-color plates on beautiful high-quality 100lb stock. The portfolio will be issued in an edition limited to 500, with at least the first plate to be signed by the artist. For all backers of this Kickstarter campaign, the folder will also be signed. When stretch goals are met, bonus prints and additional signed plates will be added to the portfolio.
The Edgar Rice Burroughs VISIONS OF ADVENTURE portfolio is presented in a fully illustrated, wrap-around folder that features Mark Wheatley's original portrait of Edgar Rice Burroughs, pictured in the setting of one of his own fantastic jungles, caught in the act of day-dreaming new and ever more exciting adventures.
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