Heavy Metal Arts by Greg Hildebrandt & Heavy Metal Magazine

MakersPlace is excited to announce the first of several upcoming drops featuring new and legacy artworks from Heavy Metal magazine, an originator of fantasy, horror, and science fiction artwork.

For our first installment, MakersPlace and Heavy Metal present the artwork of Greg Hildebrandt. This internationally acclaimed illustrator spent the majority of his long career illustrating alongside his brother Tim and publishing as The Brothers Hildebrandt. Though Tim died in 2006 due to complications related to diabetes, Greg has continued to create unmistakable and varied illustrations.

The Brothers Hildebrandt are most famous for painting fantasy and science fiction art, including the original Star Wars movie posters, the popular Lord of the Rings calendars produced in the 70s, comics for Marvel and DC, and illustrations for Magic: The Gathering and Harry Potter for Wizards of the Coast, though that is but a small portion of their total output and impact on visual culture.

Individually, Greg contributed to the art for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s albums and concert merchandise as well as the cover art for Black Sabbath’s Mob Rules album. He started his ongoing American Beauties pinup art in 1999. In 2019, it was announced that Greg would provide cover art for a new series of Star Trek comics, Star Trek: Year Five, from IDW Publishing.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Greg illustrated a number of classic books, including Greg Hildebrandt’s Favorite Fairy Tales, Alice in Wonderland, Dracula, Poe: Stories and Poems, and The Phantom of the Opera.

About Heavy Metal Magazine

Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine that launched in 1977. The magazine is infamous for its blend of dark fantasy, science fiction, erotica, and steampunk.

Unlike the traditional American comic books of that time — bound by the restrictive Comics Code Authority — Heavy Metal featured explicit content. The magazine started out primarily as a licensed translation of the French science-fantasy magazine Métal hurlant, including work by Enki Bilal, Philippe Caza, Guido Crepax, Philippe Druillet, Jean-Claude Forest, Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Moebius), Chantal Montellier, and Milo Manara.