Luis Royo - Team Yankee (1988)
11.5" x 17.5" / 29,2 × 44,5 cm
Watercolor, acrylic enhanced with subtle airbrush accents on Bristol board
Signed and with Certificate of Authenticity
Luis Royo created the cover artwork for the Berkley Trade edition of Team Yankee: The Graphic Novel by Harold Coyle, published in the United States in 1989 by Berkley Publishing Group.
This vivid illustration places the viewer at the very center of the action. Executed in a palette of intense, fiery reds and oranges, the composition conveys immediacy, tension, and movement.
Team Yankee: The Graphic Novel
Team Yankee is an alternate history military techno-thriller novel written by Harold Coyle, then a major in the United States Army, and first published in 1987. The story is set against the backdrop of a hypothetical Third World War, inspired by the scenario outlined in Sir John Hackett’s The Third World War: The Untold Story. It takes place in an alternate timeline in which World War III has broken out in the 1980s between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. It follows a United States Army armored company-sized team in combat against the Soviet Union after the Warsaw Pact invades Western Europe. While Hackett's book emphasizes strategy and world politics, Coyle's features the experiences of the tank crews and infantrymen fighting on the front lines.
Harold Coyle is an American author of historical, speculative fiction, and war novels including Team Yankee, a New York Times bestseller. He served seventeen years on active duty in the United States Army. Team Yankee was Coyle's first novel, and its success made Coyle a prominent writer in the field of military fiction. The novel was first adapted into a comic series and later released as a graphic novel. It achieved best-selling status and inspired a series of comic books, an Origins Award-winning board wargame, and a video game. The book is widely regarded as a classic of modern military fiction. In 2015, it was adapted as a sister scenario for the Flames of War wargame.
*I also own three variant preliminary sketches created for this final piece: https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1888506
