Legendary LOTR Artist Teaming Up With Heavy Metal For Two New Calendars

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Warning: Greg Hildebrandt's American Beauties calendar is meant for MATURE audiences.

This Fall Heavy Metal is releasing two new and gorgeous calendars for the upcoming year from famed fantasy artists The Brothers Hildebrandt (Tim and Greg Hildebrandt), and from Greg Hildebrandt as a solo artist. This includes the seminal collaboration between Greg Hildebrandt and his late brother Tim, featuring their famously lavish Lord of the Rings art from the 1970s responsible for sparking so many imaginations. Screen Rant has the exclusive preview to this dynamic partnership of Hildebrandt’s SpiderWebArt Gallery and Heavy Metal Publishing in the release of 2023 calendars The Tolkien Art of the Brothers Hildebrandt and Greg Hildebrandt’s American Beauties, the very apex of retro sci-fi/fantasy cool for any fan of vintage kitsch.

Since they crashed onto the scene in the 1970s with their iconic LOTR art, The Brothers Hildebrandt have been behind some of the most incredible cultural images of the 20th Century, including the famous “Star Wars B” poster which advertised the sensational film’s original 1976 release in the UK. Once upon a time, a company known as Ballantine Books, known for publishing high-quality prints of elite fantasy artists like Frank Frazetta, sent out an open invitation for art submissions for a Lord of the Rings calendar and were met with the mind-melting magic of brothers Greg and Tim Hildebrandt. Credited with revolutionizing fantasy art for a new generation, the images which adorned the three The Brothers Hildebrandts’ Lord of the Rings calendars of the 1970s are well-known by fans of Tolkien as some of the definitive imaginings of Middle Earth’s legendarium. Hildebrandt told Screen Rant of his experience:

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