Into White: The Art Of George Pratt

Tripwire Comics Presents “Into White: George Pratt,” the first in a series of art of books we will publish.

Pratt is an artist and illustrator who once drew extensively in comics in the 1990s, but for a number of reasons, he has moved on to gallery work and to teach at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota in Florida. Pratt's first published comics work was for Marvel Comics' Epic Illustrated #20 (1983). DC published Pratt's first graphic novel, Enemy Ace: War Idyll has been translated into nine languages and at one point was on the required reading list at West Point. The book won the France Info Award for Best Foreign Language Graphic Novel, and the British Speakeasy Award for Best Foreign Language Graphic Novel.

Since then, he has built up an incredible body of work that includes portraiture, landscapes, figure work and also some exceptional comic work. Pratt is an artist who transcends a number of different genres and disciplines so we felt he would be the perfect subject for our debut art book.

Clocking in at 250 pages, this 9x12 inch hardcover takes a look at an extensive career creating work in pen and ink, paint and watercolour. This is the ultimate look at the artist's career.
He has attracted prominent fans over the years too as the late great illustrator Mark English had this to say about him:

“My friend, George Pratt, has it all. He has craftsmanship, draftsmanship, plus the need and the motivation to be an artist. That’s what it takes. I think a serious artist is always searching for something but rarely knows what. That “something” can’t be found by just thinking, though. It’s found with exploration and hard work. George is constantly drawing, painting, observing, experimenting and reaching further which is what makes him exceptional. I’m always excited to see what new ground he is breaking.” “Into White” marks a new era for Tripwire and we are excited to share this with our supporters.

Here's a few quotes on his Enemy Ace: War Idyll graphic novel too from back in 1990:
"Humphrey Cobb's ‘Paths of Glory’, and the subsequent film by Jim Thompson, Calder Willingham and Stanley Kubrick; William March's ‘Company K’; Pablo Picasso's ‘Guernica’; visions of hell that we call war, as seen by Goya, Winslow Homer, Heinrich Kley, Bill Mauldin-these are the anguished and exquisite ancestors of George Pratt's ‘ENEMY ACE: WAR IDYLL’. Each and all, serious artists working seriously at depiction of that human endeavor at once most noble and most despicable. Pratt's graphic novel of the tormented Hammer of Hell is nothing less than compelling, memorable, touching. Stephen Crane would have nodded understanding and called Pratt brother."

— Harlan Ellison

“A remarkable work, astonishing in the originality of its concept and execution. Some of these scenes will stay with me a long time.”

— William Sanders author of ‘The Wild Blue and the Gray’ and ‘Silver Wings’

“‘Enemy Ace: War Idyll’ is not only visually stunning: it evokes the bleak horrors of World War I memoirs as well as the Vietnam too many of us knew.”

— David Drake author of ‘Hammer’s Slammers’