John Van Fleet

John Van Fleet is an illustrator who specialises in graphic novels. Some of his most famous works include Ray Bradbury, DC comics and The Matrix graphic novels.

I like his very distingctive and original style of illustration. Fleet uses mixed media and an original process;
Fleet hires actors to pose and be photographed in the correct actions and angles in the comic. With these images, Fleet works with acrylic paints and the aid of a lightbox to illustrate the photographed actors in a highly detailed and skillful manner.
Fleet then sources imagery for the backdrops of each box in the graphic novel, for this he uses 'real-life' photographic images, which very few comics use.
I think this aspects makes Van Fleet's work much more interseting and I find the images he creates have a strange quality to them, somewhere between being 2D and still-life images, they have great detail and depth than any other graphic novel images.