Amsel's Lost Art: KRULL!!!
My most recent posts highlight some of Richard Amsel's unused and rarely seen works. While Amsel's talents were in high demand, he often...
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Jun 21, 2021
Amsel's Lost Art: Unpublished TV GUIDE cover for "THE ROOKIES"
Adding to the collection of rarely seen work is Richard Amsel's unpublished TV GUIDE cover for the series, "THE ROOKIES". This was a...
Jun 18, 2021
Amsel's Lost Art: FUNNY LADY
My previous post highlighted Amsel's unused poster for TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. which was just one of the many pieces that has fallen into...
Jun 18, 2021
Amsel's Lost Art: TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
The tagline of my documentary is "Illustrator of the Lost Art" for three reasons. First, it's an obvious (if perhaps tacky) play on...
Jun 12, 2021
YAHOO! MOVIES profiles RAIDERS' 40th, gives Amsel his due...
For some time now, I've had friendly communications with writer and author Mark O'Connell, whose lovely book WATCHING SKIES: STAR WARS,...
Jun 12, 2021
Donate now for the chance to win a print of Amsel's RAIDERS artwork, and receive other perks!
With RAIDERS fever in the air this weekend, I thought it was time to have another series of donation incentives for the documentary....
Jun 10, 2021
ART OF THE MOVIES posts Amsel Retrospective
Last February I posted an interview with writer Adam Kennedy, for his blog ART OF THE MOVIES. Today he posted a lovely retrospective of...
Jun 7, 2021
Amsel's panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt finally viewable on the Interactive AIDS Quilt page
I want to thank everyone for their kind comments regarding my recent writeup celebrating Richard Amsel’s two posters for RAIDERS OF THE...
Jun 4, 2021
The Return of the Great Adventure: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK celebrates 40 years!
June 12th marks the 40th anniversary of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. To celebrate, I wanted to share some details about the two posters...
Apr 27, 2021
"Reclaiming my time" / Project Updates / Tribute to Stephen Kempfe
Here we are, nearing the end of the first quarter of 2021, and I realize that I’ve yet to give a single update since last December. Sorry...
May 12, 2017
Rediscovered: Amsel's other John C. Attle poster!
A lot of different subjects have been discussed during my interviews for the documentary. I'm not yet sure how they will fall into place,...
May 12, 2017
Website updates, or lack thereof.
Admittedly, I've been putting so much time into the documentary that updates to this site have been lacking. I don't want to have to...
Mar 11, 2017
CB Creative Bloq deems Amsel's RAIDERS poster #1
Cavan Scott's Creative Bloq has placed Amsel's rerelease poster for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK at the very top of his 25 top movie posters...
Jan 3, 2017
Why Star Wars Needs to Use Illustrators Like Drew Struzan for its Posters
Erik Sharkey, the director of DREW: THE MAN BEHIND THE POSTER, wrote this lovely tribute article to illustrated movie poster art for THE...
Nov 18, 2016
The INDIEGOGO campaign...
And so it begins -- our crowdfunding campaign through INDIEGOGO, in partnership with FRACTURED ATLAS. While I've already done over 20...
Oct 22, 2016
Jackpot.
One of the biggest challenges I've had for both the www.richardamsel.info website and the forthcoming film is finding quality images that...
Oct 14, 2016
David Edward Byrd: an "old hippie" forever young at heart
"There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” Such was a lyric by the great Paul Williams, and it dances inside my head...
Sep 5, 2016
Amsel's unused art for CUBA
I've tried for years to find a good quality color image of Amsel's unused art for the 1979 Sean Connery thriller, CUBA. The best thus far...
Aug 4, 2016
Status updates...
There's been an obvious lack of updates to this site as of late, as most of my free time has been spent doing interviews for the...
May 27, 2016
Old artwork, new discoveries...
As I mentioned on the documentary website, last month I made the first of what will be several trips back east, filming a number of...
Apr 16, 2016
Updates on the documentary: Interviews, interviews, interviews...
Slowly but surely I've continued work on the documentary.. I'm still assembling a crew and setting up a formal business structure, which...
Jan 17, 2016
AMSEL: ILLUSTRATOR OF THE LOST ART official film website launched.
At last...it is happening! The documentary website has just been launched, at www.richardamselmovie.com. The documentary Amsel:...
Dec 4, 2015
Happy birthday, Richard...and a big announcement.
Today would have been Richard Amsel's 68th birthday. It's time for me to finally confirm the rumors that have been circulating for some...
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