Star Wars Poster Book
Star Wars Poster book review
In this entry I'll review the 'Star Wars' Poster Book, 'written' by Stephen J Sansweet en Peter Vilmur.The SW Poster Book is no Source book (of course), but since it's a non-fiction book, I'll review it. The Poster book is an elaborate book, with 320 p. It covers posters from 'ANH' until 'RotS'. Does this book show every poster ever created about 'SW'. No, of course not. You would need 25 of these books to accomplish that. The book shows the most famous posters and unique, rare, foreign and akward posters. At the back there is some kind of price guide and much more posters are mentioned. The chapters on the prequels are much shorter that the chapters on the classics.You can see that Sansweet was involved in the creation of this book. It's no secret that he likes Japan and has many contacts there. So there are many Japanese posters in this book. Some of the posters have appeared before in other Sansweet books such as 'From Concept to Screen to Collectible'.The text in this book is very interesting and relates many things about the most important SW posters. I was really surprised by that, because almost nothing had ever been written about that. Thumbs up! Also notable is the mentioning of our colleagues of the Dutch fanclub Echo Base in the book. Matt Busch painted a beautiful poster for their Echo Base Con in 2002.
+ Positive Highlights: Beautiful hardcover book - Many pictures - More (interesting) text than you'd expect - Many foreign posters
- Minor Issues: You have seen some of these posters before, but yeah - No Belgian posters are printed, but yeah - No 'RotS' (only 3 posters)
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In this entry I'll review the 'Star Wars' Poster Book, 'written' by Stephen J Sansweet en Peter Vilmur.The SW Poster Book is no Source book (of course), but since it's a non-fiction book, I'll review it. The Poster book is an elaborate book, with 320 p. It covers posters from 'ANH' until 'RotS'. Does this book show every poster ever created about 'SW'. No, of course not. You would need 25 of these books to accomplish that. The book shows the most famous posters and unique, rare, foreign and akward posters. At the back there is some kind of price guide and much more posters are mentioned. The chapters on the prequels are much shorter that the chapters on the classics.You can see that Sansweet was involved in the creation of this book. It's no secret that he likes Japan and has many contacts there. So there are many Japanese posters in this book. Some of the posters have appeared before in other Sansweet books such as 'From Concept to Screen to Collectible'.The text in this book is very interesting and relates many things about the most important SW posters. I was really surprised by that, because almost nothing had ever been written about that. Thumbs up! Also notable is the mentioning of our colleagues of the Dutch fanclub Echo Base in the book. Matt Busch painted a beautiful poster for their Echo Base Con in 2002.
+ Positive Highlights: Beautiful hardcover book - Many pictures - More (interesting) text than you'd expect - Many foreign posters
- Minor Issues: You have seen some of these posters before, but yeah - No Belgian posters are printed, but yeah - No 'RotS' (only 3 posters)
SW.Com Feature
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