Magazine artist Oliver Frey, recognized for illustrating quite a few online game and laptop magazines together with Crash, Amtix, and Zzap!64, has handed away.
Frey had been creating illustrations for comics, magazines, and books since 1969, deftly flitting between genres together with science-fiction, fantasy, historical past, romance, and homosexual erotica.
News of Frey’s passing has been circulating on social media, with buddies and colleagues praising the veteran artist for making a string of iconic journal covers.
“He’s doubtless the all-time biggest online game journal artist,” mentioned recreation author Jaz Rignall, who labored alongside Frey earlier in his profession. “We labored collectively at Newsfield for years, the place he painted a myriad of legendary cowl photos that outlined an period.”
In celebrating his work, Rignall spotlighted quite a lot of Frey’s spectacular Newsfield covers on Twitter, together with a festive Christmas cowl brimming with references to among the hottest C64 titles of the period and one other summary effort showcasing the ZX Spectrum (proven within the collage beneath).
In newer years, Frey’s art work additionally graced the duvet of basic retro recreation journal Retro Gamer, whereas a few of his erotic items have been featured in an exhibition on the British Library in August 2014.
Newsfield journal covers by Oliver Frey
