Glen Orbik

Glen Orbik

Glen Orbik is an American illustrator known for his fully painted paperback and comic covers, often executed in a noir style. He studied art at the California Art Institute then located in Encino, later Calabasas, California and currently located in Westlake Village. He studied under the school's founder, retired movie and advertisement illustrator Fred Fixler. He eventually took over the classes when Fixler retired from teaching and still currently teaches figure drawing after returning from an extended hiatus. His work has been compared to Alex Ross and Robert Mcginnis and he is a popular teacher among fine art, comic, and video game artists. He is currently working on a series of paperback covers for the Hard Case Crime series of novels and currently resides in Van Nuys, California.

External links

* [http://www.orbikart.com "The Artwork of Glen Orbik"] bio, and gallery of Orbik and companion, Laurel Blechman's work
* [http://www.hardcasecrime.com/index.shtml "Hard Case Crime"] series of reprinted and original pulp fiction novels, some illustrated by Orbik


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