HYDE PARK BOOKS
				ROBERT E. McGINNIS
	Robert McGinnis did his first paperback cover in 1956, a Mike Shayne mystery for Dell at the urging of art director Walter Brooks. This led to his being the principal artist for the Shayne Mystery series. The direct art-style worked well the the type of writing found in the books, and this became his niche; he even did the covers for most of Signet's similar Carter Brown adventure series.
		Born 1926 in Ohio. First important art job was at the Walt Disney Studios, where he drew Mickey Mouse and other notables. By some accounts he ran away from home and hitchhiked across country to meet Walt Disney. After World War II, he returned to Ohio and resumed his education in earnest. He attended Ohio State University, where he starred as a football player, and the Central Academy of Commerical Art.
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