
ACKNOWLEDGE
In my
early
teens I saw the poster for the 'Cannonball Run'. All those great
celebrities
drawn around the speed sign with the car crashing through it. I
adored
it for the simple reason it had the most lifelike portraits I had ever
seen on a movie poster. Besides that it was funny, had a great
composition,
nice coloring and showed the signs of a true craftsman. Though it
wasn't signed, it was the work of someone I wanted to see more
of.
The following years I began a collection of posters by an artist called
Drew: Back to the Future, The Goonies, The Police Academy, The
Temple
of Doom, etc... and though I always thought the Cannonball run poster
had
that same richness in style, I couldn't be sure because of the absence
of a name on that piece.
Finally that mysterie got solved when I got a copy of the 'Raiders of
the
Lost Ark' poster. It was signed Drew and had some sort of a
square
logo on it as well, the logo I had already seen on the Muppet movie
poster
and some other stuff. When I looked again at that Cannonball
piece
I saw that same logo disguised in the black and white squares below on
the right. From then on I became a true collector of his work,
compiling
lists of his by checking out movie magazines, movie stores, video
stores
and filmfairs.
Sometime in '93, through his agency, I wrote a letter asking for a
complete
list of all the movie posters he had done. Writing back Drew said
he had done about 150 or so pieces for the movies but had no list
of it what so ever. He would try to compile a list when he had
the
time. When I recentely joined the net, I found his own
website
with tons of information and images of his art, and above all a list
with
about 150 titles he had compiled. It was a dream come true.
Thanks to that list I finally had about 50 new titles of posters he'd
done
and started looking for them on the net. Today I am the proud owner of
about 100 one sheets of his. A lot of them you've all seen
before,
but there's a whole lot of great stuff that's really unknown. You can
see
a lot of those in these pages.
The posters shown here were all verified by Drew himself. It's
truly
an honour to have him helping me out and giving me all the information
I've asked for. I know the 150 pieces list isn't complete. Drew
says:'
I've done a lot of pieces in one day and lost them among
thousands
of images I saw but for a day..', so now and then new and lost titles
could
be added to the list.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy yourself looking at these great posters.
Let's hope the list never completes and we get to see more great
artwork
of his in the future.
INFO
The
Drew movie poster page is created and maintained by Paul De
Blieck.
All pictures (except where noted) were taken from my own collection and
were retouched in photopaint to get the cracks and folds out (you
should
see my 'Borderline' poster to know how much time that took me).
My
page has been on the net since July first 1999 and will stay there
forever
in one form or another. Look out for new stuff every couple of
weeks.
Any comments or questions on the subject-matter, please let me
know.
Maybe with your help this homepage could become the most complete Drew
movie poster collection ever. Live long and enjoy!
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