"Mike Fyles produces magazine covers so good that it seems a crime that no one will ever read the stories he illustrates - because they never existed." Martin McGarth

Martin McGarth is Editor of Matrix Magazine - the news magazine of the British Science Fiction Association http://www.bsfa.co.uk.

  Proposed Book

I have always liked illustration and tend to produce it either as Cover Art or Sequential imagery. The former is probably the more challenging because of the balance that needs to be struck between form and content, decoration and narrative. Cover Art, like the short story, gets a limited shot at indicating what lies beneath the cover.

Stylistically, I'm keen on the commercial illustration of the mid 20th Century that was made to promote 'fringe' books (which includes childrens's annuals), magazines and comics. There is so much creativity and artistic competence to found on the covers and within the pages of even the most mundane examples.

 Proposed Pages

My current preoccupation has been described, and I think aptly, as 'nostalgic sci fi and pulp'. Someone also suggested that it might be too late to revive the 'adventure genre' - but we'll see! 

Mike Fyles.

The Cover Arts and Illustration displayed on this website is a portion of work posted on the web. The largest selection resides in a gallery at:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?username=Mikeall