"First published in 1964 and revised in 1984, this is the third edition of
The Illustrator in America....This history of 140 years of illustration is brought up to
the millennium year of 2000 when new computer-generated techniques and digital printing
is creating another revolution in this evolving, dynamic art form."

from the flap copy of The Illustrator in America

George Pratt (1960-   ) is too young to remember World War II, let alone World War I, yet his illustrated novel, Enemy Ace: War Idyl, created for DC Comics/Warner Books in 1990 is so authentic in spirit that it has become required reading at the Military Academy at West Point. Most unusual in the format, story, and pictures, it is told from the German viewpoint and points to the brotherhood of soldiers on both sides. A subsequent book, No Man's Land, published in 1992 by Tundra Publishing LTD., is equally compelling and convincing. It holds its own with the work of those artists who were there, including Harvey Dunn and Major John Thomason. Other subjects have included The Great War, The Holocaust, and The Blues.

A native of Beaumont, Texas, George studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and later taught there. His work has been published in Epic Illustrated, Eagle Magazine, and Heavy Metal, as well as by Bantam Books, Ariel Books, Kipling Press, and he has executed comic book cover paintings for DC Comics. He has also exhibited his gallery paintings in Houston and New York. More recently, he has become involved iwth documentary filmmaking on blues music (he plays guitar himself), and on a story of the eight artist-war correspondents, who covered action at the front with the A.E.F. in 1917, including Harvey Dunn, Wallace Morgan, Harry Townsend, and George Harding.

Excerpt from The Illustrator in America

Written by: Walt Reed

Published by:
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Founded February 1, 1901