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Barron Storey (born 1940, Dallas, TX) is an American illustrator, graphic novelist, and educator. He is famous for his accomplishments as an illustrator and fine artist, as well as for his career as a teacher. Storey has taught illustration since the 1970s and currently is on the faculty of California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He has also taught at San Jose State University and Pixar Studios. He trained at Art Center in Los Angeles and under Robert Weaver at the School of Visual Arts in New York. ==Career== Barron Storey has been a commercial illustrator since the 1960s, and his clients have included major magazines such as ''Boys' Life'', ''Reader's Digest'', and ''National Geographic''. His cover portraits for ''Time'' of Howard Hughes and Yitzhak Rabin hang in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. His giant painting of the South American rain forest hangs in New York's American Museum of Natural History, and a 1979 rendering of the space shuttle commissioned by NASA, the first official painting ever done of it, hangs in the Air and Space Museum on the National Mall. As a book illustrator he as done cover illustrations for the Franklin Library classics, ''War and Peace'', ''The Good Earth'' and ''Stories by Sinclair Lewis''; as well as the covers of ''Fahrenheit 451'' for Del Rey / Ballantine; and, most famously, the 1980 reissue of ''Lord of the Flies''. Storey has also published many comics and graphic novels, including ''The Marat/Sade Journals'' (Tundra),which was nominated for an Eisner Award, Neil Gaiman’s ''The Sandman: Endless Nights'' (DC/Vertigo) which won an Eisner, ''Tales from the Edge #1-10'', ''Barron Storey’s WATCH Magazine'' (Vanguard), and ''Life After Black'' (Graphic Novel Art). Several of his students, including Dave McKean, Scott McCloud, Dan Clowes, Peter Kuper, and Dan Brereton, have become leading figures in the graphic novel field. In Summer/Fall of 2015, Storey was forced into retirement by California College of the Arts, the Oakland CA institution where he had been teaching summertime Illustration classes to high school students. Little is publicly known about Storey's retirement, such as the terms of the arrangement, or whether he will continue to work as a freelance illustrator. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barron Storey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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