Hector Garrido
Hector Garrido (1928 – April 19, 2020)G.I.Joe toy packaging of the 1980s.[3] Some of his work is considered good girl art.
Garrido was born in Argentina and studied art in Buenos Aires. He emigrated to the United States, and began professional work there in the 1950s. After the 1990s he painted "devotional subjects".[1]
Libraries appear to report that Garrido provided interior as well as cover illustrations for some of the "Susan Sand" mystery stories by Marilyn Ezzell.[4]
Selected works
Wikipedia book articles usually display front cover image of the first editions. Garrido may have provided cover art for a later edition.
- The Anything Box, Avon Books(1965)
- Pilgrimage: The Book of the People, Zenna Henderson, Avon (1967)
- Needle, Hal Clement, Avon (1967)
- The Day New York Trembled, Irwin Lewis, Avon (1967)
- John Christopher, Avon (1967)
- Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein, Avon (1967)
- Master of Life and Death, Robert Silverberg, Avon (1968)
- The People: No Different Flesh, Zenna Henderson, Avon (1968)
- Now Then!, John Brunner, Avon (1968)
- The Little People, John Christopher, Avon (1968)
- The Pedestal, George Lanning, Avon (1968)
- Witch Bane, Robert Neill, Avon (1968)
- The Devil His Due, edited by Douglas Hill, Avon (1969)
- Old House of Fear, Russell Kirk, Avon (1969)
- Night of the Vampire, Raymond Giles, Avon (1969)
- A Stir of Echoes, Richard Matheson, Avon (1969)
- Infernal Idol, Henry Seymour, Avon (1969)
- Unfinished Portrait, Agatha Christie, Dell (April, 1969)
- Baroness novels, Paul Kenyon, Pocket Books (1974–1975)
- The Ecstasy Connection
- Diamonds Are for Dying
- Death Is a Ruby Light
- Hard-core Murder
- Operation Doomsday
- Sonic Slave
- Flicker of Doom
- Black Gold
- Lodge Sinister, Dana Ross, Pocket Books (1975)
- Night Shade, Dorothy Daniels, Pocket Books (1976)
- The Parasite, Macmillan(1980)
- Race Against Time, Carolyn Keene, Grosset & Dunlap (1982)[5]
- Forgetting Places, S. P. Somtow, Tor Books (1987)
- Blood Farm, Sam Siciliano, Pageant Books (1988)
- Death Angel, Robert Black, Pageant (1988)
- The Curse, Carl Sherrell, Pageant (1989)
- Summer of Night, Dan Simmons, Putnam (1991)
- Children of the Night, Dan Simmons, Putnam (1992)
- Raven, Charles L. Grant, Tor (1993)
- Fires of Eden, Dan Simmons, Putnam (1994)
References
- ^ a b c Hector Garrido > About Flickr.com (Flickr). With Photostream and Albums. "... the site is maintained for free by a friend". Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ "Judging a Book by its Cover: 75 Years of Nancy Drew Covers" by Todd H. Latoski. (Unknown work), April 2005, pp. 39–44. NDsleuths.com. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ "MEDUSAWOLF: The G.I. Joe Artwork of Hector Garrido". August 2, 2013.
- . The Password to Diamonddwarf Dale (Pinnacle Books, (c)1983).
- ^ Not the 1st ed. cover displayed at Wikipedia. Garrido illustrated the cover of a later Wanderer Books (1980s) edition of Nancy Drew #66, one with full size art and "checkerboard" cover design. "Nancy Drew #66: Race Against Time". Lea Shangraw Fox. NancyDrewWorld.com. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
External links
- Hector Garrido at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Hector Garrido in libraries (WorldCat catalog) – WARNING: WorldCat records for unidentified "Garrido, Hector" apparently report book illustrations by this HG and musical compositions or arrangements by another HG; perhaps work by others, too.
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