Review: The Art of Brom

This evening, after a long break, I will review the book "The Art of Brom" by Brome ed. Flesk Publications.
The book comes from a successfully founded project on Kickstarter, ending on October 2012.
Unfortunately, I have come to know of the existence of this project long after the termination of the campaign, so I started hitting Amazon and Bookdepository to see a release date for the normal customers.
Well, the book finally arrived and I started pouring in quite a few hours in admiring the pieces and cursing to how much Brom is good (seriously, He made some pact with some Entity...eh eh).

This is the cover of the book. It's hardcover and 208 pages long. The quality is absurd for its price. Flesk Publications really did an outstanding job: the paper (glossy and medium grammature) and the colors are incredible. I can assure you that it's giclee (the real expensive ones) quality!

The book is divided in various chapter of different lenghts.
There is a nice introduction by Arnie Fenner and then a lenghty biography of Mr Brom himself with nice pictures of his first masterpieces ;)

Then the real treat starts: hundreds of paintings from the most famous to the less known (well many of them I didn't know existed, so sue me!). There are various sections with a different number of pages.

And then there are the sections about his illustrated novels (Brom also writes and he illustrates his own books).

At the end of the book there is the entire list of the Kickstarter backers (around 2000).

Obviously you should thank this guy for his many years of incredible creativity and uncountable nightmares (I was 13 when I first saw Dark Sun and its creatures).

And to remind you what you are missing (go buy the book!) here's one of my favourite piece EVER!!!

All rights of the original images belongs to Brom and Flesk Publications.

Andrea "Kraan" Buratta

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