IRON MAIDEN Artist DEREK RIGGS - "Hollywood Eddie" Prints For Sale
June 1, 2015, 8 years ago
Iron Maiden cover artist Derek Riggs is offering up a new print called "Hollywood Eddie".
"I posted a picture of an old rejected Maiden sketch a while ago," says the highly revered illustrator. "It attracted some interest from fans who asked if they could buy a copy. So I decided to have a short run of prints done. I only had 100 prints done because I was not sure how many I could actually sell (I didn't know if you would be that interested in a print of a sketch).The picture is from the retrospective Somewhere On Tour period, and it was an idea for a Maiden DVD cover, but Maiden were not interested in it and so it's been on my computer for a few years. I often meant to finish it off but I never really had a reason to. I was looking for photos of movie cameras for the camera in Eddie's head. I came across the original camera that Charlie Chaplin used to make all his early movies on. It was up for sale by his estate, and they had photos of it. So I stuck it into Eddie's head."
