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Jun 12, 2021

Donate now for the chance to win a print of Amsel's RAIDERS artwork, and receive other perks!

With RAIDERS fever in the air this weekend, I thought it was time to have another series of donation incentives for the documentary....

Jun 10, 2021

ART OF THE MOVIES posts Amsel Retrospective

Last February I posted an interview with writer Adam Kennedy, for his blog ART OF THE MOVIES. Today he posted a lovely retrospective of...

Jun 7, 2021

Amsel's panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt finally viewable on the Interactive AIDS Quilt page

I want to thank everyone for their kind comments regarding my recent writeup celebrating Richard Amsel’s two posters for RAIDERS OF THE...

Jun 4, 2021

The Return of the Great Adventure: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK celebrates 40 years!

June 12th marks the 40th anniversary of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. To celebrate, I wanted to share some details about the two posters...

Apr 27, 2021

"Reclaiming my time" / Project Updates / Tribute to Stephen Kempfe

Here we are, nearing the end of the first quarter of 2021, and I realize that I’ve yet to give a single update since last December. Sorry...

May 12, 2017

Rediscovered: Amsel's other John C. Attle poster!

A lot of different subjects have been discussed during my interviews for the documentary. I'm not yet sure how they will fall into place,...

May 12, 2017

Website updates, or lack thereof.

Admittedly, I've been putting so much time into the documentary that updates to this site have been lacking. I don't want to have to...

Mar 11, 2017

CB Creative Bloq deems Amsel's RAIDERS poster #1

Cavan Scott's Creative Bloq has placed Amsel's rerelease poster for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK at the very top of his 25 top movie posters...

Jan 3, 2017

Why Star Wars Needs to Use Illustrators Like Drew Struzan for its Posters

Erik Sharkey, the director of DREW: THE MAN BEHIND THE POSTER, wrote this lovely tribute article to illustrated movie poster art for THE...

Nov 18, 2016

The INDIEGOGO campaign...

And so it begins -- our crowdfunding campaign through INDIEGOGO, in partnership with FRACTURED ATLAS. While I've already done over 20...

Oct 22, 2016

Jackpot.

One of the biggest challenges I've had for both the www.richardamsel.info website and the forthcoming film is finding quality images that...

Oct 14, 2016

David Edward Byrd: an "old hippie" forever young at heart

"There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” Such was a lyric by the great Paul Williams, and it dances inside my head...

Sep 5, 2016

Amsel's unused art for CUBA

I've tried for years to find a good quality color image of Amsel's unused art for the 1979 Sean Connery thriller, CUBA. The best thus far...

Aug 4, 2016

Status updates...

There's been an obvious lack of updates to this site as of late, as most of my free time has been spent doing interviews for the...

May 27, 2016

Old artwork, new discoveries...

As I mentioned on the documentary website, last month I made the first of what will be several trips back east, filming a number of...

Apr 16, 2016

Updates on the documentary: Interviews, interviews, interviews...

Slowly but surely I've continued work on the documentary.. I'm still assembling a crew and setting up a formal business structure, which...

Jan 17, 2016

AMSEL: ILLUSTRATOR OF THE LOST ART official film website launched.

At last...it is happening! The documentary website has just been launched, at www.richardamselmovie.com. The documentary Amsel:...

Dec 4, 2015

Happy birthday, Richard...and a big announcement.

Today would have been Richard Amsel's 68th birthday. It's time for me to finally confirm the rumors that have been circulating for some...

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