Robert McGinnis, James Bond Poster Artist, Died at Age 99

American illustrator and creator Robert McGinnis has died astatine 99 years old, per Variety. A posting from the obituary tract Legacy reveals helium passed distant connected March 10.

Primarily, McGinnis is champion known for creating the poster creation to assorted James Bond films implicit the decades. Beginning with 1965’s Thunderball, he’d spell connected to make creation for You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Live and Let Die, and the 1967 parody mentation of Casino Royale. His movie vocation extends beyond the spy franchise: successful total, helium did implicit 40 movie posters, specified arsenic Breakfast astatine Tiffany’s (his debut assignment) Barbarella and three Matt Helm films. As helium became much popular, “the McGinnis Woman” became a fashionable shorthand to picture the fig of bikini-clad women that were often paired with chiseled men of that era.

Born February 3, 1926, McGinnis is described by Legacy arsenic “one of the astir prolific illustrators of the 20th century.” Starting retired successful his career, helium apprenticed astatine Walt Disney Studios and aboriginal took a occupation astatine Dell Publishing. There, helium drew covers for paperback novels for assorted genres, from detective fabrication to fearfulness and fantasy. His enactment could besides beryllium seen successful magazines specified arsenic National Geographic, TIME, and Reader’s Digest. In 2016, helium started drafting retro covers for reissued Neil Gaiman books.

McGinnis is survived by his 3 children and their idiosyncratic families.

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