American illustrator Mick McGinty left us a few days ago at the age of 69.
His name may mean nothing to you, but his works have inevitably passed before your eyes one day or another.
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Illustrator Mick McGinty is no more
It was on September 18 that artist Mick McGinty, aged 69, died. An American designer who has distinguished himself in particular in the world of video games, since it is to this same Mick McGinty that we owe, for example, the cover so emblematic of Street Fighter 2.
It is to him that we also owe the illustrations of other cult games of the 90s, such as Streets of Rage 2 and its sequel, but also Shining Force, without forgetting Kid Chameleon, whose cover will have convinced more than one SEGA Mega Drive player to acquire the latter at the local supermarket. More recently, the man had also worked on the Zoo Tycoon series.
However, Mick McGinty's career is not limited to video games, far from it, since he has notably worked in the cinema with Who Framed Roger Rabbit in particular or even Bigfoot and the Hendersons, not to mention jackets for the industry. musical, and The Police. We also owe him some particularly famous advertising campaigns.
