It’s been established that Mitchell Hooks was a prolific painter of paperback covers. However, he’s also well known for having created promotional poster artwork for the first James Bond movie, Dr. No (1962). Explains the blog MI6: “As well as creating … stylized illustrations of Sean Connery as James Bond for the UK quad poster, which would be used again for the later U.S. theatrical campaign, he also drew the line-art illustrations that feature behind the colourful character poses. A lot of his work would be repurposed for the international posters.”
FOLLOW-UP I: Writing on his Today’s Inspiration Facebook page, artist Leif Peng recalls “a fun anecdote about Mitchell doing this poster for the first-ever James Bond film. He’d been painting posters for a movie promotions agency in New York for some time when this project came up. And when he was called in to pick up stills to use as reference, his contact at the agency said, ‘Don't worry about putting too much effort into getting a good likeness on this one, Mike. It’s just some obscure British spy flick. Probably won’t be a hit anyway.’”
FOLLOW-UP II: It should be mentioned, as well, that Hooks painted posters for more movies than just Dr. No. Click here to enjoy additional examples of his work.
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