WORLD CUP LEGENDS available now! BUY IT TODAY!
WORLD CUP LEGENDS pays tribute to true icons of international football, focusing on the biggest sporting event on the planet. As well as dozens of the most famous players past and present the book features top managers and referees too. You know the names — Pelé, Maradona, Beckenbauer, Zidane, Beckham — but you’ve never seen their faces in this light before.
Chris Sommerville has combined his love of football and caricature in a brand new book featuring contributions from guest artists and an introduction by Frank Quitely, illustrator on such world-famous comics as New X-Men and Batman & Robin. So whether your first love is the beautiful game, you’re an aficionado of cartoon art or you simply like a laugh, WORLD CUP LEGENDS is the book for you.
80 pages, paperback £14.95, hardback £22.95
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Chris Sommerville is the founder and head cartoonist at the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio based in Glasgow, Scotland and celebrating ten years in business in 2009. The Studio team are most notable for their Fizzers caricature project, including a major exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and a terrific book from Mercat Press. The Studio's website is the official home of Fizzers and the best place for all information about new and up-coming books, merchandise and exhibitions. Chris specialises in Gift Caricatures as well as caricaturing live at private functions (weddings, birthdays, Christmas parties etc.) and corporate events. Browse through the work below, including many examples from the Fizzers collection, as well as the other galleries, then use the contact form to get in touch.
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