Ep. 93: John Scoleri & The Art of Ralph McQuarrie

Very happy to have on the program author John Scoleri, who talks about his Star Wars journey and the effort to bring the first comprehensive Art of Ralph McQuarrie books to life. Released in 2007 ‘The Art of Ralph McQuarrie by John Scoleri and Stan Stice was a mammoth 12’’x 15’’ 400 page tome, limited to just 2000 copies, which was the culmination of an incredible amount of work, passion, belief in the cause, and a little good luck thrown in for good measure. The FORCE was certainly with them. A lot of what you can find today on shelves concerning McQuarrie’s work owes a lot to the groundwork John and Stan laid with that first book. John Scoleri and Stan Stice began working with Ralph McQuarrie in 1996. In 2006 they launched Dreams and Visions Press to publish The Art of Ralph McQuarrie. John has gone on to write several more books on McQuarrie, including The Art of Ralph McQuarrie: ARCHIVES (Dreams and Visions Press, 2015). He also produced the DVDs Ralph McQuarrie: Illustrator (2002) and Caroline Munro: First Lady of Fantasy (2004). In 2019 he launched Cimarron Street Books to publish the magazine bare•bones and the collected works of award-winning author/screenwriter David J. Schow. He is currently at work on Latent Images (Dreams & Visions Press, 2021), a photographic retrospective of Night of the Living Dead (1968).  John Scoleri is on Twitter @resrvordog You can still find some great Ralph McQuarrie books and prints over at their website Dreams and Vision Press http://www.dreamsandvisionspress.com John’s writing on Ralph at starwars.com https://www.starwars.com/news/contributor/jscoleri Full show notes for this episode can be found at rebelbasecard.com