After 35 years of creating Star Wars posters, artist Drew Struzan has attempted to retire, but may be lured back by the siren call of Disney’s new Star Wars trilogy.  In fact, Struzan himself reports that Disney has literally called him recently to possibly return in order to create posters for the new films.  While nothing is official at the moment, Struzan seems open to the idea if not overly enthusiastic about it.  For fans of Struzan’s work, it would certainly be nice to see some new creations for Episodes 7, 8 and 9, and Struzan’s involvement would also lend more consistency to the look of the franchise.  Hit the jump to see what Struzan had to say about the opportunity along with some examples of his work. [Update: Struzan has spoken up to debunk this rumor.  Read his statement after the jump.]

A few weeks back, we announced the biggest giveaway we’ve ever done here at Limited Paper. After clearing up a brief bit of confusion regarding the various ways that readers could enter said giveaway, we were off and running…and holy crap, did you guys respond: our Drew Struzan’s Creature From The Black Lagoon giveaway resulted in almost four times as many entries as we’ve ever received on a Limited Paper giveaway up until now. We were really excited to get the winner announced…and then the week from hell struck.

Read on to find out who won that Drew Struzan Creature From The Black Lagoon, where you can buy one if you were part of the other 99.7% who entered, what took us so damn long, and what you can look forward to this week in Limited Paper. It’s all after the jump, folks.

Last night, after a months of speculation (and—for those that slept outside the Mondo Gallery in anticipation of the event—after a few restless nights on the sidewalk lining 41^st and Guadalupe in downtown Austin, TX) the good folks at Mondo finally opened the doors on their Universal Monsters Gallery show.  With nearly 20 new prints on sale, over 50 original pieces of artwork, and surprise appearances from legendary poster artist Drew Struzan and Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont, the show was a smash success.

Wanna see some images from the show and hear what Limited Paper thought about the whole thing?  Meet me after the jump, folks.

Well, here it is, folks.  After weeks of promising you “our biggest giveaway ever”, after randomly revealing a number of teaser images via Twitter, and—just this past Friday—after dropping a major hint in the form of an entire writeup about the poster we were getting ready to give away, we are finally ready to get this party started:  thanks to a stunningly generous donation (from a guy who may very well love Drew Struzan more than any of us), we’re kicking off Universal Monsters Week @ Limited Paper by giving away one of Drew Struzan’s Creature From The Black Lagoon posters.

Wanna know how you can win the rarest, most valuable, most balls-out-gorgeous poster we’ve ever given away here at Limited Paper HQ?  Of course you do.  Meet me after the jump, folks, and all will be revealed.

For serious poster collectors and Universal Monsters fans, it will come as no surprise that Drew Struzan—the legendary artist who created some of the most well-known, iconic movie posters ever to come out of Hollywood—once created a poster for Universal’s Creature From The Black Lagoon:  after all, the image has been bouncing around since 2001, and it’s easily discovered for anyone who does a little poking around on Struzan’s website;  it’s not as though Struzan’s been keeping this thing a secret.  And yet, I recently noticed—over the course of several email-based conversations with readers—that very few of you seemed to be aware of this print’s existence.

With Mondo’s Universal Monsters show just about a week away from opening, I figured it’d be a good time to take a look at the history of this piece:  how it came about, who produced it, and—last but not least—where people may be able to get ahold of one if one were so inclined.  For all of that (and more), meet me after the jump, folks.

Limited Paper just keeps on coming, people!  Last time, we told you all about the Phone Booth Gallery’s amazing A Distant Winter gallery show (and showed up some pretty kick-ass photos, to boot), and this time we’ve got even more exciting news for all the limited paper-collecting poster-freaks in the audience:  want details on Mondo’s drop schedule at the 2012 San Diego Comic Con? Wanna see the newest prints from Gallery1988’s Breaking Bad series?  What is the Horror Die-Cut Collection, anyway (hint:  it’s awesome)?  Find out after the jump, people.

The Alamo Drafthouse’s Summer of ’82 series has been going strong all summer long, offering up screenings of movies that have—when you get right down to it—kind of mopped the floor with virtually all of the new movies Hollywood’s released this summer.  Part of the fun has been seeing which of these screenings would get a Mondo poster, and this morning we finally got confirmation on one Mondo-related rumor we’ve been hearing for some time:  this Friday’s The Thing screening is getting a print…and it’s a doozy.  Meet me after the jump for more info, folks…

There aren’t really movie poster “artists” any more.  There are designers, there’s photoshop, there’s loads of posters that are whipped up in the course of a day or perhaps even a few minutes (looking at you X-Men: First Class), but there’s rarely any artistry to them.  Granted, advertising is advertising, but a movie poster can be so much more.  Artist Drew Struzan made them more.  His style put a classic, refined touch to any poster and he’s responsible for the unforgettable one-sheets for geek classics like Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Back to the Future, The Goonies, and so much work.  The new book Oeuvre: Drew Struzan collects his movie posters, but what makes it special is how much it offers beyond his well-known work.  The collection of artwork included in Oeuvre will only broaden your knowledge of his work and deepen your love of his art.

Today is a great day for the fine folks at Mondo.  The company has just sent out a press release announcing that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library will archive Mondo’s growing collection of original film posters.  One of the first Mondo posters to go into the archive will be Drew Struzan’s gorgeous poster for Frankenstein, which is part of Mondo’s Universal Monsters series.  In Struzan’s long career of designing posters, this is his first screenprint.

The Mondo posters will be housed in Herrick’s existing collection of more than 38,000 posters, stored in climate-controlled vaults, and scanned into the library’s online catalog.  Speaking of finding the Mondo posters online, the company has now started up mondoarchive.com where you can check out all of the posters released thus far.  The only way the site could be better is if they told you how fast the poster sold out.  Hit the jump to check out the press release along with the Struzan Frankenstein poster. Details on the sale date, price and edition size will be revealed soon so be sure you’re following @MondoNews for the announcement.

If you’re a movie poster geek, than you’re no stranger to the work of Drew Struzan.  His work was a favorite of Steven Spielberg’s and Struzan did the iconic posters for the Indiana Jones movies, The Goonies, Back to the Future, and more.  Because Spielberg produced J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 and that film is specifically trying to recall 80s Spielberg, it makes sense that Paramount would create a Drew Struzan-like poster for the film.  However, I don’t think Struzan actually did this poster unless he forgot how to draw faces.  Seriously, it looks like poor Kyle Chandler’s face is about to melt off.

Hit the jump to check out the poster and for details on how you can pay to see the movie a day early.  Super 8 opens this Friday. [Updated: Movies.com reports that the poster is fan made.  I'm willing to give it a little more leeway since this didn't come out of Paramount's marketing department but was a labor of being super excited for the movie]

I’m usually not much for the “This fan-made thing is so cool!  I have to post it.” post.  But, umm… this fan-made credits for AMC’s The Walking Dead is pretty cool.  I have to post it.

Inspired by the poster that Drew Struzan designed for Comic-Con, Daniel M. Kanemoto took artwork from the comic that launched the series and slapped together a really impressive animated title sequence set to Eels’ “Fresh Blood.”  If you are looking forward to the October 31st premiere of The Walking Dead — which stars Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Laurie Holden, Steven Yuen, and Sarah Wayne Callies — check it out after the jump

In celebration of the 25^th anniversary of Back to the Future, the film is getting a theatrical re-release in the United Kingdom complete with a brand spanking new poster.

The poster is very much in the vein of the Drew Struzan original, except this time the image of Marty is centered, the logo is more prevalent and the Delorean is speeding away instead of stationary. Then, of course, the text touts the 25^th anniversary digital presentation and announces the October 1 theatrical release date.

Here in the United States, we’ll have to just deal with the October 26 Blu-ray release and a few select events such as We’re Going Back in Los Angeles. Hit the jump to check out the poster:

Poster artist Drew Struzan has enjoyed a storied career, with credits for such iconic films as  Star Wars, E.T., Back to the Future, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.  More recently, he collaborated with writer/director Frank Darabont on the 2007 horror film The Mist.  When Darabont wanted to bring a new poster for his upcoming AMC zombie series The Walking Dead, he sought out the services of Mr. Struzan.  Check out the fantastic results in high resolution after the jump.