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The Ultimate Alphabet by Mike Wilks6/5/2023 On the heels of Britain’s armchair treasure hunt craze, spurred by Kit Williams wildly successful 1979 book Masquerade, 2 The intricate detail and the almost Bosch or Dali sense of surrealism are what made the book something of a cult classicĪnd are characteristic of all of Wilks’ work: With a single exception, all of the 32 illustrations were done in pen and ink, which Wilks felt was his most accomplished medium. His first major commission was for Brian Aldiss’ epic poem Pile – Petals From Saint Klaed’s Computer, published in 1979. 1947) began art school on scholarship at age 13 and after studying for seven years he began a careerĪs a graphic designer, founding the London design agency TWD. To suggest that the picture repays careful study is someting of an understatement. Wilks included 1234 nouns, verbs and adjectives that began with S. This is the majority of the letter S – the most complicated image from Mike Wilks’ The Ultimate Alphabet.
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