![]() Back then at that time his word, with the support of the ‘2 Chrises’ management team (Chris Morrisson and Chris O’Donnell), was law with the record company which worked like a dream for me in so many ways giving me a period of freedom that was unmatched previously in my career as an artist and graphic designer. ![]() Philip demanded that I be allowed make a design for a gatefold cover with a cutout video screen showing the band in the TV-screen style cutout. The influence of another great American comic book artist we both loved, Neal Adams, is all over this. A lot of four unframed signed offset lithograph reproductions of 1983 paintings by listed American artist E. ![]() Together we worked on the imaginary story of ‘The Warrior’ that Philip had in his mind and I reworked the roughs to reflect this idea until it all held together. He asked me to create an image to go with my ‘OverLord’ graphic for the cover of JailBreak and include the tripods from the movie and the comic with Philip and the band fleeing from the blasting rays as the broke out of this futuristic jail. Philip Lynott was a massive fan, as I was myself, of H.G.Wells, author of War of the Worlds, then a fine 60s movie -and of a Marvel comic spinoff called Killraven. Fitzpatrick had this to say about his artwork for the iconic Thin Lizzy lp, Jailbreak:
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