Drew Struzan has retired. (via)

Drew has provided artwork for over 150 film posters as well as many classic album covers, advertising, and book covers. He is best knows by his poster illustrations for the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and can count film makers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg among his biggest fans.

It’s inevitable given the reduction in cost and production time, that the Photoshop hack-jobs will usurp the old illustrated posters. It’d be nice though to see the style return to use, outside of deliberate attempts to invoke nostalgia.

Slashfilm has some scans from the Art of The Dark Knight book, showing early concepts for the Joker design. The first two in particular are even more disturbing than the final design, but I do like where they ended up.

Adelaide has a defender.