Category: Flesk Book Updates

Flesk Publications is pleased to announce the availability of Harvey Dunn: Illustrator and Painter of the Pioneer West by Walt Reed. The introduction is by Lynn Verschoor, director of the South Dakota Art Museum. This is the definitive book on this powerful painter, illustrator, and teacher!

Harvey Dunn was one of twentieth century America’s most powerful illustrators, painters and teachers. This comprehensive volume covers a major portion of his illustrations and paintings for the first time. Content includes illustration art, pioneer and western works, and his powerful World War I pieces inspired by his battlefield sketches. Also included are the rarely seen nudes, portraits, and murals. Paintings from museums and private collections showcase the full range of this talented American artist.

For this book, many original paintings were tracked down and re-photographed in order to reintroduce the work of this important artist. Until now, most of Dunn’s paintings and illustrations have been unavailable to the public in their original form.

Locations of pictures in public collections are listed, as are the original publication dates and places. Additionally, a section is devoted to the artist’s working and teaching methods. Also included is a reprinting of Dunn’s “An Evening in the Classroom,” compiled from notes made during critiques, passing on his inspirational teaching philosophy. A comprehensive list of Dunn’s students with sample art is included as well.

This massive collection features 294 color and 73 black and white plates within 304 pages. The book dimensions are 12.5” x 9.75”. Two editions are available; A hardbound with jacket (ISBN: 978-1-933865-19-5) with a cover price of $50.00 and a Deluxe Limited hardbound with slipcase (ISBN: 978-1-933865-20-1) with the cover price of $125.00. Sample pages for the book are available on the Harvey Dunn book featured page on the Flesk website. Visit the Flesk online store to order, or view our contact page for more options. This book is not available to the book trade, including Amazon. For individual store orders, please contact John Fleskes for details.

Deluxe Edition Details (View multiple pictures of the Deluxe Edition at the Flesk website)

This special edition is limited to 350 copies in slipcase, signed by the author and specially bound and numbered. It contains the proof of an undated photo of Harvey Dunn. It also contains the image of Dunn’s previously unpublished experimental painting “Romance,” from the 1920s. Only 100 copies will be for sale through Flesk. The remaining copies will be reserved for the South Dakota Art Museum and Illustration House, NYC.

Praise For Harvey Dunn

“N.C. Wyeth, my father, was a great friend of Harvey Dunn and thought highly of his work—I feel the same way and think his work is very powerful.”

—Andrew Wyeth
Chadd’s Ford, PA

“South Dakota has every reason to be proud of Harvey Dunn. Born and raised in a homesteading family, he painted an authentic and artistic record of the settlement of our great state that will continue to inspire us for generations to come.”

—M. Michael Rounds
Governor, State of South Dakota

“We take great pride in our native son Harvey Dunn and have had the privilege of knowing his work intimately through the Museum Collection. Now we can share that pride with the rest of the country through the handsome reproductions of his work in this volume. After this introduction we invite you to visit us in person.”

—Lynn Verschoor
Director, South Dakota Art Museum

“I had always been drawn to Howard Pyle and his outstanding disciples, but my first introduction to Harvey Dunn’s paintings was a revelation; dramatic and colorful, combined with a dedication to truth and I am proud to have his work in my collection.”

—Richard Kelly
The Kelly Collection of American Illustration

“This work definitively brings to light the life and art of one of this nation’s greatest painters, illustrators and teachers. Dunn believed in the usefulness of pictures and that their primary motive was to convey feelings that is universal to all mankind.”

—George Fernandez
Professor, SUNY—Farmingdale

About Walt Reed

In 1974 Walt Reed founded Illustration House, Inc. Reed was part of the instructional staff of the Famous Artists School. There he worked with some of America’s most prominent illustrators, including Norman Rockwell, Stevan Dohanas, Robert Fawcett and Albert Dorne. His previous books include, The Illustrator in America, Harold von Schmidt Draws and Paints the Old West, Great American Illustrators, and The Art of Tom Lovell. Reed was editor for North Light Publications in 1972-1976. He designed the Bicentennial 50 State Flag stamps and has been a consultant on several subsequent stamp projects.

Full details and sample pages for Flesk Publications titles and our most recent news can be found on our website, and on publisher John Fleskes’ blog. Thank you for your support. Feel free to contact us with any questions.

John Fleskes

Flesk Publications
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Harvey Dunn: Illustrator and Painter of the Pioneer West by Walt Reed has just arrived at our warehouse. All pre-orders are currently being filled and will ship this week.

For those interested in the deluxe edition, I’ve taken photos of the book and put them on the Harvey Dunn book description page on the Flesk website. Just click on the small picture of the deluxe edition, which will show you five big views.

It’s a handsome package. Besides the slipcase, the book has been upgraded with a cloth binding and includes an onlay of Harvey Dunn’s “The Homesteaders” painting from 1908 on the cover. The difference between this and the trade edition is that the trade has a jacket and arlin binding with no onlay.

The special edition is limited to 350 copies in slipcase, signed by the author and specially bound and numbered. It contains the proof of an undated photo of Harvey Dunn. It also contains the image of Dunn’s previously unpublished experimental painting “Romance,” from the 1920s. Only 100 copies will be for sale through Flesk. The remaining copies will be reserved for the South Dakota Art Museum and Illustration House, NYC. The price is $125.00. These are not available to the book trade or specialty shops.

For more details and sample pages, please visit our Flesk Harvey Dunn webpage here.

Enjoy!

John Flesk
Flesk Publications

Flesk Publications is pleased to announce their new release, Inspirations by William Stout!

Inspirations focuses on Stout’s loving portraits of the women of the fantastic realms. Be they winged and magical fairy folk, or half-fish and sweetly salted mermaids, they are here. They and dozens more await the intrepid reader in these pages, each of them as fair, fierce and fascinating—and as terribly dangerous and impossible to hold—as her companions.

William Stout provides insight into the works found within. "Inspirations is a much more personal book than its previous companion volume Hallucinations. I worked from live models for almost every one of the pictures in Inspirations. The models added an enormous amount to each piece, ultimately giving the illustrations much more depth and substance than if I had just drawn the figures out of my head.”

Every one of these stunning visions is captured in ink-and-watercolor to best reveal the very life and likeness of the subjects in their full-blooded beauty. Stout goes on to explain, “The influences of my favorite early 20th Century children’s book illustrators are woven all throughout the images contained within Inspirations. I consider this book a tribute to them and their enormous talents.”

In many ways, William Stout: Inspirations is the twin of William Stout: Hallucinations. Both volumes present images rendered by the award—winning, well-traveled artist during his recent tour of the lands of literature, myth and popular imagination. Both books share a format. And both act as brilliant showcases for a living master of his craft, working at the height of his powers, and in what is arguably his most popular style.

And, as is true of every release from Flesk Publications, the greatest care has been taken to achieve the highest reproduction quality of these muses—these dearest of William Stout’s Inspirations.

Inspirations is 48-pages at 8.5” x 11” containing 50 illustrations. The softbound edition includes French flaps. The cover price is $19.95. The hardbound edition includes a jacket with a new piece of art created for the back cover, which is a variation of the art found on the reverse of the softbound edition. This hardcover is limited to 500 copies with a cover price of $29.95. Exclusive to this edition is a bound in plate reproducing an unpublished illustration. Each copy is numbered and signed. This edition is sold out from the publisher. Those interested can visit www.williamstout.com for availability of a deluxe copy.

William Stout is one of America’s foremost fantasy and film artists, dinosaur muralists and illustrators. Stout’s dinosaur illustrations have appeared in The Little Blue Brontosaurus, which formed the basis of the enormously popular The Land Before Time animated series. Stout has contributed to over thirty films including Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, and Walt Disney’s Dinosaur. He was a designer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth. His previous books include, The New Dinosaurs, Prehistoric Life Murals, New Dinosaur Discoveries A-Z and Dinosaur Discoveries. His pictures were an acknowledged inspiration for Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. Stout has been awarded the Gold and Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators.

William Stout is available for interviews.

Full details and sample pages for Flesk Publications titles and our most recent news can be found on our website, and on publisher John Fleskes’ blog. Thank you for your support. Feel free to contact us with any questions.

John Flesk

Flesk Publications
P.O. Box 3174
Santa Cruz, CA 95063
info@fleskpublications.com
www.fleskpublications.com
(408) 206-2346
Monday through Friday
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Here’s the latest Flesk press release announcing “Xenozoic” by Mark Schultz. Enjoy! —John Fleskes

Flesk Publications is pleased to announce their new release, Xenozoic by Mark Schultz!

Welcome to the Xenozoic Age, a post-apocalyptic landscape where dinosaurs roam freely…and humanity is the endangered species!

Forced into hiding by a global ecological cataclysm, humans emerge from their underground warrens half a millennium later to discover that the Earth has been totally transformed. All of the familiar flora and fauna are gone, replaced by a radically altered natural order populated by rampaging dinosaurs and strange, new creatures. It takes guts, grim determination, ingenuity and a whole lot of old-fashioned luck just to survive, much less thrive, in this alien wilderness—all qualities that ace mechanic Jack Tenrec, lovely scientist Hannah Dundee and their friends possess in abundance.

But even the worthiest of these hardy souls are hard-pressed to surmount the obstacles presented by their new homeland. And when those trials are further compounded by the underhanded and selfish actions of the cutthroat human scavengers they encounter, brains and bravery might not be enough.

Xenozoic combines lush and richly realized ink-and-brush artwork with a pulp-fueled narrative to create an action-packed fantasy—an unrelenting adventure that also serves as a subtle cautionary fable concerning the unforeseen consequences that shortsighted present-day decisions might have upon future generations.

When asked about his new book, author and artist Mark Schultz explains, “When Flesk Publications expressed interest in publishing a new collection of my Xenozoic stories, I couldn’t have been happier. I knew that the reproduction and packaging would be of the highest quality—the very best. The new scans show my brushwork with more clarity than previously, and with the full tonalities within the blacks evident. My drybrush technique has never been reproduced more faithfully. The generous page count allowed for the addition of extra illustrations, as well. It’s a beautifully designed book—I’m very proud of the entire package.”

Flesk publisher, John Fleskes further notes, “This book features all of the stories written and drawn by Mark Schultz to date. He has created new drawings to introduce all twenty stories, as well as provided additional illustrations. Schultz also fully hand colored the new cover artwork using watercolors, providing a rich overtone unlike anything he has done before.

“With the exception of two stories, ‘Green Air’ (11-pages) and ‘The Rules of the Game’ (10-pages), all of the artwork has been reproduced from the originals. These other two stories were scanned from original proofs.

“I’m very excited about this hefty 352-page Xenozoic book!”

Xenozoic will be available in your local comic book shops and bookstores beginning in the first week of November. Introduction by Craig Elliott, 352-page softbound edition with 4” French flaps, 8.5” x 11” for $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-933865-31-7. Full details and sample pages can be viewed at the Xenozoic product page at the Flesk Publications website. Furthermore, orders can be placed direct through Flesk on their online store.

Mark Schultz is an American cartoonist, illustrator and writer whose career spans three decades. His lifelong interest in the sciences and natural history informs his fictional work, highlighted by the award-winning Xenozoic Tales series and the undersea adventure SubHuman, as well as such non-fiction projects as The Stuff of Life, a Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA. He is currently deep into the glacially slow process of producing illustrations for his novella Storms at Sea while continuing to provide scripts for the comic strip Prince Valiant. In between all this he dreams up new projects—a percentage of which come to fruition — teaches on occasion at the Savannah College of Art and Design, picks up the occasional work-for-hire and produces the odd commission.

Mark Schultz is available for interviews.

Full details for all of Flesk Publications titles and our most recent news can be found on our website, and on publisher John Fleskes’ blog. Thank you for your support. Feel free to contact us with any questions.

Flesk Publications
P.O. Box 3174
Santa Cruz, CA 95063
info@fleskpublications.com
www.fleskpublications.com
(408) 206-2346
Monday through Friday
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This is a heads-up that the hardbound limited edition of Inspirations by William Stout is almost sold out through Flesk. Today we finished shipping out all of our pre-orders, comp copies, review copies and bookstore orders. I found myself with only 10 copies left of the hardcover.

I am writing a press release to announce the availability of this title and Xenozoic by Mark Schultz, which will be sent out through our email newsletter on November 2. I expect the last few deluxe Inspirations copies to go quickly. Now is your chance!

You can order all of our available titles at our Flesk store here.

John

John Fleskes
Flesk Publications

Here’s an update on the latest Flesk schedule for our four fall 2010 releases.

I have received my sample books for both William Stout: Inspirations and Xenozoic by Mark Schultz. They look great! I expect the bulk shipment to arrive by the end of this month at the distributor, with books showing up in the stores by the first week of November.

Harvey Dunn: Illustrator and Painter of the Pioneer West by Walt Reed is currently being printed and bound. I’m supposed to receive my sample copies by the end of this month. Then the bulk shipment will arrive in our warehouse by the end of November for an early December street date. This will not be available on Amazon or to the book trade.

You can pre-order these books in our new Flesk store. Titles will ship just as soon as they arrive. You get your books a little earlier than the stores when you order direct with Flesk.

Jungle Girls by Jim Silke is in the proofing stage. Once these have meet my requirements, the book will be printed. I expect the street date to be in mid-December. This will be in our Flesk store next month, once the shipping schedule is finalized.

I went through our stock to check the remaining quantities of various books. I am down to less than fifty copies of Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic. There are no plans to reprint this book. This book will sell out. (Get it soon if you want it!) The deluxe-signed edition of Gary Gianni’s adaptation of Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is running low. I am also down to my last fifty copies of the hardbound edition of Joseph Clement Coll: A Legacy in Line. The softbound is already sold out. I don’t have any plans to reprint this book either.

Any questions? Send us an email.

Best,

John

John Fleskes
Flesk Publications

Harvey Dunn: Illustrator and Painter of the Pioneer West by Walt Reed is currently at the printer. The proofs have been approved. The book is on the press and being bound. The author, Walt Reed, has been working on this book for twenty years. It has been a long and arduous task in completing this book, one in which I am proud to have an opportunity to be involved in. The book was originally slated for July 2010. Due to some improvements and extra time taken to make sure the book was as best as it could be, the release date has been pushed to December 1, 2010. If the printing and shipping goes as scheduled the book will arrive at the Flesk warehouse by the end of November 2010.

I am pleased to announce a deluxe edition for Harvey Dunn: Illustrator and Painter of the Pioneer West will be available. This special edition is limited to 350 copies in slipcase, signed by the author and specially bound and numbered. It contains the proof of an undated photo of Harvey Dunn. It also contains the image of Dunn’s previously unpublished experimental painting “Romance,” from the 1920s. Only 100 copies will be for sale through Flesk. The remaining copies will be reserved for the South Dakota Art Museum and Illustration House, NYC.

This book will only be available direct through Flesk Publications, the South Dakota Art Museum and Illustration House. There is no current plan for this book to be available to the book trade, nor through Amazon. If you placed an order direct through Amazon, the order will be canceled. You will then be able to order from one of the three of us.

The reason for the decision to pull the book from the trade and Amazon was made to provide an equal opportunity for Flesk, the museum and Illustration House to sell the books. Amazon’s heavy discount would undercut sales from the museum and Illustration House (copies sold on Amazon would have been through the Flesk distributor). This wasn’t a fair arrangement. Flesk, Illustration House and the South Dakota Art Museum put significant resources, time and funds into this project. Based on this, a mutually beneficially arrangement for selling the book was decided upon.

Best,

John

John Fleskes
Flesk Publications