GLEN ORBIK
Several decades ago, with the original intention of drawing super-heroes, Glen Orbik started serious art study with retired illustrator, Fred Fixler.
Fred was a highly skilled illustrator best known for painting movie posters ( Comedy of Terrors, Pit and the Pendulum, Man with the X-ray Eyes, Burn Witch Burn, House of Usher, Hercules- Unchained, Where the Boys Are, etc...). and elegant pretty girls.
Fred had been a student of Frank Reilly and Robert Beverly Hale at the Art Students' League, with fellow classmates James Bama, Robert Maguire and Clark Hulings, among many others.
After a few years, Glen took over many of Fred's classes at the school he started when he retired from teaching and have continued off and on for over 20 years.
While at school Glen met future partner and sometimes collaborator, Laurel Blechman, a fellow Fixler student and teacher.
Glen Orbik has worked on everything from book covers to movie posters, collectable lithographs and plates, to video games and comic books. Glen gotten to do covers for such authors as Stephen King and Ray Bradbury.
Glen Orbik painted retro detectives, femme fatales, fantasy heroes, Sci-Fi rockets & Jedi's, western bandits and Hammer-style vampires. Glen is a major fan of classic magazine illustration, pulp paperback art, and film- noir.