Thursday, January 13, 2011

George Romero


I love that the godfather of zombie directors looks like a cross between Stan Lee and Colonel Sanders.

Known for Night of the Living Dead, The Crazies, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead and a whole lot of other films with "Dead" in the title, Romero's is the last of the regional director images for GLL. This piece was a great break from the various political pieces I've been doing for the magazine lately. It turns out regional family magazines rarely want hordes of zombies. Who knew?

Below are some of the original concepts:

3 comments:

Jake Murray said...

Now that's just wicked awesome.

Rachel Dangerfield said...

Favorite!

Erik Johnson Illustrator said...

Bravo!

I love the finger frame! I don't know that Romero used rotting corpses as much he did extras in white face paint for his zombies but its still great.