Interesting Ian Fleming Tribute Poster - Some help required...
AdamCarterJones
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Hi guys,
I have received this image.
Myself and the sender are looking for any other information on it:
The poster measures 12x24inches.
The line underneath the image area on the right-hand side reads as follows:
'Twenty Years Of James Bond' - A tribute in pencil to the late Ian Fleming - By Mick Dolby.
Email me privately, pm me, or reply here!
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Thank you,
I have received this image.
Myself and the sender are looking for any other information on it:
The poster measures 12x24inches.
The line underneath the image area on the right-hand side reads as follows:
'Twenty Years Of James Bond' - A tribute in pencil to the late Ian Fleming - By Mick Dolby.
Email me privately, pm me, or reply here!
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Thank you,
Comments
Maybe if you contCt the magazine's editor Graham Rye via their website he might have some answers?
Thanks for the validation.
If you have a look at http://www.007magazine.co.uk/contact.htm it'll tell you how to reach the editor of the magazine.
This is great - I never knew it had been posted on a forum several years ago!
And yes, I will contact Mr. Rye!
I really appreciate the help
Adam Carter-Jones
Bondposters.com - FREE James Bond Poster Reference site
I had a very pleasant, and need I say very interesting & very informative discussion with him.
Here is his written response, in its entirety, direct from the man himself:
"‘Twenty Years of James Bond’ – A tribute in pencil to the late Ian Fleming by Mick Dolby
As nearly a quarter century has past since I first published this artwork by commercial illustrator Mick Dolby in 007 MAGAZINE Issue #17 (March 1988) my memory is a little hazy. I believe the first time I saw this illustration was during a visit to Ian Fleming’s publishers Jonathan Cape in Bedford Square, London. The late Tony Colwell, who was Marketing Director for Cape at that time, allowed me unprecedented access to their filing system on site that contained their records on the marketing and publication of Fleming’s Bond novels. Among the many other treasures I found in those files, there was a printed mini-poster in black & white of the Dolby illustration. Apparently it had been undertaken by the artist as a self-promotional work in 1973 when he had a limited number of litho-produced prints run off, and in due course had sent a copy to the Cape offices that had been duly filed.
I was never very happy with how the illustration reproduced in that edition in 007 MAGAZINE, as the original artwork was considerably larger and much of the fine detail in Mick Dolby’s excellent work was lost at that size. With more modern printing techniques now available, perhaps 007 MAGAZINE should run this illustration again one day.
Graham Rye
Editor, Designer, Publisher
007 MAGAZINE
007 MAGAZINE ARCHIVE FILES
007 MAGAZINE & ARCHIVE Limited
007 Magazine"
This has helped me and the sender of the image enormously.
I hope the information presented above is also of value to everyone else.
I personally do hope the image is reproduced once more in 007 Magazine, as I am very intrigued to see the artwork the way it was intended to be seen in magazine format.
Thank you to all those who replied, and thank you to Graham Rye.
I appreciate all help, as always.
Adam Carter-Jones
Bondposters.com - FREE James Bond Poster Reference site
And nothing was kept underground in this thread...
At all times all members should be kept fully informed!
BY ORDER OF THE AJB SUPPORTERS CLUB.
Seriously, be great to have it properly reprinted....
I'm glad that my idea worked and that you were able to get the information that you wanted.
Also I think it was really nice of Mr Rye to respond so quickly and in such detail too!
And thank you for the suggestion!
Also, the advice of several members of this forum has been invaluable to me with regards to posting.
I appreciate everything, and happy endings are always good endings! -{
Adam Carter-Jones
Bondposters.com - FREE James Bond Poster Reference site
Nice to hear all the detail about the files at the Jonathan Cape offices. However, the image in the 007 magazine was supplied by yours truly as a basic photograph which was then probably scanned, or whatever the technology was in those days, and printed in 007.
Not having seen any originals, I have no idea whether what was seen in Cape's was representative of print of the original pencil drawing.
Graham mentions it s being black and white and that its reproduction in 007 was less than successful. Just to iterate, the copy I have is of a bluish tinge.
Cheers.
Simon.