Game art has a legacy of coercing comic and fantasy artists into its world to create box and key art. Some of the best video game box art has been created by comic artists and illustrators, including the best of Atari's iconic advertising art.
When I ask Duncan Fegredo, who's renowned for his collaborations with Mike Mignola on Hellboy, why he jumped at the opportunity to work on upcoming video game Revenge of the Savage Planet for its poster art, he says it's because he "loves video games" and saw the poster project as "hovering somewhere between a cover or box art" that, for him, recalled the 16-bit era of Psygnosis covers by Roger Dean.
