STAR WARS AFICIONADO WEBSITE: JEROME TARPLAY

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Sunday, 1 January 2017

'STAR WARS' AT 40: A GALAXY OF CHARACTERS!

Welcome to 2017, and the start of STAR WARS AFICIONADO's 365 days celebrating the incredible, iconic, as superb as ever original STAR WARS (now STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE), as it reaches its amazing 40th Anniversary Year! A life without the saga is truly impossible to think about, especially now that its hardwired into the world's collective pop culture consciousness, so come with us and enjoy the days ahead...

First out of the gate are these two great pieces of unused poster art for a Coca Cola promotion, by Jerome Tarplay, circa 1978.

Saturday, 9 May 2015

CLASSIC ART: THE LONE GUNMAN!

Having just made his first influential appearance in cartoon form during the previous year's toy promotion fest that was The STAR WARS Holiday Special, cunning bounty hunter Boba Fett is front and centre of this sadly unpublished 1979 poster concept for Coca-Cola. Art by Jerome Tarplay.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF STAR WARS AFICIONADO!

Written and conceived by Scott Weller, this is the website to the popular UK STAR WARS fan magazine STAR WARS AFICIONADO. The aim of this blog is to educate, enlighten and, hopefully, entertain STAR WARS fans of all ages across the world. Basically, to have fun and enjoy all six of George Lucas's classic movies, the three sequel adventures linked to the Skywalker family (2015 to 2019) and the two spin-off anthology films ROGUE ONE and SOLO. Plus animated TV series spin-off THE CLONE WARS (and STAR WARS REBELS). AFICIONADO celebrates the actual films NOT the modern merchandise overkill!

From time to time, this site will also cover other classic LUCASFILM related movies and TV series, like the INDIANA JONES saga (I to IV), WILLOW, THX-1138, AMERICAN GRAFFITI and RED TAILS.

The original fourteen issue run of STAR WARS AFICIONADO was non-profit making. The site, and former magazine, are NOT affiliated with/to LUCASFILM in any way. All images that appear on this site, unless previously specified, belong to LUCASFILM and its affiliates. Unless stated and credited to an outside source, all opinions expressed on this blog belong to the Editor and do not necessarily reflect the views of STAR WARS fandom in general.

Thank you, George Lucas, for creating such a wonderful, inspiring and evergreen universe!