TV21 Photos

Mike appeared at the recent TV21 convention in Bristol, as a guest of Fanderson who organized the event. Aside from bringing the remaining original art he created for the Anderson shows (which is for sale, see the main website), Mike spoke about his time with AP Films and Century 21 Productions and sketched at his table for fans.


Here's Mike sandwiched in between C21 colleague Alan Shubrook (barely visible in upper right corner) and Graham Bleathman, the king of cutaway illustration.


Mike sketches his War Machine from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds™ for a fan.


Mike at his table, surrounded by some of the amazing art he was able to save from his days working on Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, The Secret Service, and UFO.


Mike and his wife Linda, enjoying the weekend.
If you'd like Mike Trim to appear at your convention or event, please drop a note to ltrim@hotmail.co.uk.






Photos courtesy Linda Trim, ©2010

San Diego Smackdown Part Deux! Plus Filmfax

Booth 506. 506, 506, 506. Why can't I ever remember that Hermes PRess' booth at the San Diego Comic Con is ALWAYS number 506?
So, I'll be signing The Future was FAB: The Art of Mike Trim at booth 506 throughout the convention at various times. Check the booth itself for a schedule.

Just got this via email:

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Plus 10 more very similar pages.
Look again, that's not from the Hermes Press edition of the book...
It's from Part 1 of the serialization of The Future was FAB: The Art of Mike Trim in Filmfax Magazine.
That's right, the venerable cult and genre film mag is running the whole damned book! It's going to be laid out differently of course, and everything will be black & white (the Hermes Press edition is full color throughout) but if you're a regular Filmfax reader you'll soon enjoy the ass-kickingly cool art and passable prose of Mike Trim and yours truly, respectively. If you're not a regular reader, you should be.
Starts in the Summer issue, out next month.
Be there. Aloha.

Things to Come - Making the Transition to Long Pants

Here's a portrait of the artist as a young man - very young. A photo of Mike Trim at the ripe old age of 5 years old, outside the family home in Fulham, London. Yes, I know it's hard to believe that this image didn't make it into The Future was FAB: The Art of Mike Trim, but we had to include the one of him in his pedal car - that was non-negotiable!
Mike's obsession with Dan Dare and the art of Frank Hampson was only a year or two away when this photo was taken.

Mike Trim gets WIRED

The Thunderchild diorama featured on the Miketrimart.com webpage has been immortalized today in WIRED magazine's blog, here. It's also at Neatorama, and a nice photo of S.I.D. and a link to the website made it onto Stephen Years Dot Com.
Thanks for the mention, folks!

I'll be posting images here on this blog that didn't make it into The Future was FAB: The Art of Mike Trim due to space limitations beginning in the next 48 hours or so. I hope to post at least one new image every week until they're all up. Keep checking back, there's some excellent stuff that didn't make it into the book!