Phil Bevan (In-Vision artist)
Richard Bignell
> In-Vision reader and contributors may be sorry to hear that Phil Bevan died
> last weekend.
How sad. Phil had a wonderful style of his own and he drew some
wonderful stuff.
I particularly remember two pieces he did for DWB. One was the
supurb black and white illustration from the mid-80's which
fronted the headline "We Won't Let the Doctor Die" (which had
to do with the hiatus) and his colour illustation of Sharaz Jek
holding Peri in his arms - which resulted in an amusing letter
from one younger reader who's mother thought that the picture
was rather distateful as Peri was showing a little too much of
her cleavage!
He'll be sadly missed.
Richard Bignell
Ed Stradling
>I particularly remember two pieces he did for DWB. One was the
>supurb black and white illustration from the mid-80's which
>fronted the headline "We Won't Let the Doctor Die" (which had
>to do with the hiatus) and his colour illustation of Sharaz Jek
>holding Peri in his arms - which resulted in an amusing letter
>from one younger reader who's mother thought that the picture
>was rather distateful as Peri was showing a little too much of
>her cleavage!
Yes. I'd not heard of him, I must say, but I remember both of those
issues of DWB back in the days when I was a teen subscriber, the Peri
picture was a wraparound for a summer special and yes, I remember the
cleavage shot. Sorry to hear he's dead.
...And we'll all be lonely tonight, and lonely tomorrow......
Shaven Stunners: http://www.babylon.org/~templar/stunners.html
David J Howe
Richard Bignell <xz...@dial.pipex.com> wrote in article
<352D4A...@dial.pipex.com>...
> > In-Vision reader and contributors may be sorry to hear that Phil Bevan
died
> > last weekend.
This is indeed a great loss. Phil was one of the most talented and original
artists to work on WHO. I had the pleasure of using some of his work on
the DWAS' Plotlines series (Curse of Peladon springs to mind).
I seriously love his work for SPACE AND TIME/IN VISION.
A sad loss indeed.
David
Dangermouse
Anthony Brown <anthon...@futurenet.co.uk> wrote
> In-Vision reader and contributors may be sorry to hear that Phil Bevan
died
> last weekend.
Oh shit...
I remember when he was doing the Preludes for DWM - I asked to Richmann as
Michael Ironside for White Darkness, and he bloody did too! Not that
anybody noticed...
Keith Topping
David J Howe <ho...@which.net> writes
><352D4A...@dial.pipex.com>...
>>>In-Vision reader and contributors may be sorry to hear that Phil
>>>Bevan died last weekend.
>This is indeed a great loss. Phil was one of the most talented and original
>artists to work on WHO. I had the pleasure of using some of his work on
>the DWAS' Plotlines series (Curse of Peladon springs to mind).
>I seriously love his work for SPACE AND TIME/IN VISION.
That's *terrible* - his Androzani cover for DWB (recently reused on the
In-Vision's issue) was probably the greatest piece of Doctor Who art
I've ever seen. I remember he used to provide artwork for Queen Bat too,
including some early works of Martin and Paul...
>A sad loss indeed.
couldn't agree more...
Keith --- Net Day 875/Post US Day 51
Peter Anghelides
Anthony Brown wrote:
> In-Vision reader and contributors may be sorry to hear that Phil Bevan died
> last weekend.
I'd like to add my thoughts here, too. I was greatly saddened to hear
this
news. As well as being a talented artist, Phil was a good pal to many
people
in DW fandom, especially, of course, the IN-VISION team.
In a time when a lot of DW artists seemed to rely very heavily on stock
illustrations from the TV series as the basis of their compositions,
Phil's striking, dynamic compositions were a startling and refreshing
change. Phil's darkly characteristic, almost organic compositions
enhanced
magazines like DWB, DWM, Shada, and IN-VISION.
Phil also provided the internal illustrations in "The English Way
of Death". As with some other examples of his artwork, these
were drawn "from life" - Phil would sometimes ask friends to
pose for early drafts of his illustrations. On that occasion,
he also used the likeness of those friends - in this case,
Jeremy Bentham. This was aAnother chance for some affectionate
teasing: the caption to the artwork was ""She knew she was in the
presence of something inhuman" in a chapter called "The Ultimate
Obscenity"!
I first saw Phil's artwork in Gary Russell's fanzine "Shada", and was
immediately impressed with its originality and vitality. I was also
amused to see that his stylised signature could also be misread as
as "Shit" rather than "Phil", and would sometimes tease him about
this when he later worked on IN-VISION. Of course, the joke was
all the more telling simply because his artwork was never less
than excellent. (More recently, he used the signature "PRB".)
Phil's contribution to the CyberMark Service magazines began
way back with "An Adventure in Space & Time" on "Enemy of the
World". He contributed enormously to the characteristic look of
the whole series, and his design talents as well as his own
artistic contribution were essential to the early success of
IN-VISION when Justin Richards and I began the magazine with
publisher Jeremy Bentham.
Despite his declining health, Phil was determined to
contribute to the IN-VISION issue for "The Caves of
Androzani", which was a Davison story he much
admired from the era when he first met so many of his DW
friends. I think it's a fitting tribute to him that this
IN-VISION was one of the very best in recent years,
something which was in no small measure attributable to
Phil's artwork for that issue.
Peter Anghelides
(Former commissioning editor and co-creator of IN-VISION)
DOCTOR 6
Phil always managed to fit in famous people in his drawing for the preludes for
DWM. For instance, the one for Human Nature, he used Simon Callow from is role
in the movie Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet were in a few years back. Also,
for the NA featuring gangsters and Al Capone (forgot the name), in the left
page with all the peopl in front, you can see Robert Mitchum and a few others,
and the pics with teh detective, that looked like Humphrey Bogart to me. So
Phil was sneaky in getting famous people in Doctor Who someway. Tis a shame he
is gone.
Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff
P.S. He also put in the guy who played Moriarty in ST: TNG for the prelude for
All-consuming Fire.
"I'm known as the Doctor: locally, nationally, internationally, interplanetary,
intergalactically, universally, extradimensionally, and temporally, too." -
Bill Rudloff as the Doctor.
Mike Teague
Anthony Brown wrote:
>
> In-Vision reader and contributors may be sorry to hear that Phil Bevan died
> last weekend.
I never knew him, but I certainly knew of him - his B&W "poster"
of Revelation being a fine example of his attention to detail (and
my favourite), but there were so many fine examples from him.
A major loss to fandom.
/Mike.
Martin Day
Mike Teague wrote in message <353347C5...@etlxdmx.ericsson.se>...
Agreed. I didn't know him either, but if he was half as nice a person as his
excellent artwork, then his family and friends have lost someone very
special indeed. My favourite bits of artwork were the ones he did for a
short story I wrote for _Queen Bat_ years ago - they were about a million
times better than the story itself, and were genuinely clever bits of work
in their own right. He had a glorious, exciting style.
Cheers
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Martin Day
Richard Bignell wrote in message <352D4A...@dial.pipex.com>...
>I particularly remember two pieces he did for DWB. One was the
>supurb black and white illustration from the mid-80's which
>fronted the headline "We Won't Let the Doctor Die" (which had
>to do with the hiatus) and his colour illustation of Sharaz Jek
>holding Peri in his arms - which resulted in an amusing letter
>from one younger reader who's mother thought that the picture
>was rather distateful as Peri was showing a little too much of
>her cleavage!
:-) He also got in trouble illustrating 'Pretending to See the Future' for
Queen Bat (as I mention elsewhere), doing a very 'tasty' Nyssa in a bikini
top (as per my instructions, I'm afraid to say). IIRC he had to tippex out
her nipples, or something.
Keith Topping
Martin Day <ma...@dial.pipex.com> writes
>Agreed. I didn't know him either, but if he was half as nice a person as his
>excellent artwork, then his family and friends have lost someone very
>special indeed. My favourite bits of artwork were the ones he did for a
>short story I wrote for _Queen Bat_ years ago - they were about a million
>times better than the story itself, and were genuinely clever bits of work
>in their own right. He had a glorious, exciting style.
'Pretending to See the Future'...?
Still got it somewhere. Gorgeous.
Keith --- Net Day 879/Post US Day 55