Star Wars Year by Year: A Visual Chronicle

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of The Empire Strikes Back in style!

Four decades of Star Wars history come together for the first time in a highly illustrated year-by-year format. Star Wars Year by Year pulls together a vast array of information from the films, comic books, novels, merchandise, and computer games. Star Wars Year by Year provides fans with everything they need to know about the phenomenon that is Star Wars, from the first Star Wars release in 1977 through the most recent plot twists in the animated television show Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

The book is chronologically arranged from 1973 to 2009, and includes stunning chapter openers for each decade, highly illustrated articles for each year that delve into important events in the creation of the movies and comic book art, and fascinating facts about the influence of Star Wars in the real world.

CREDIT LINE: (c) 2009 Lucasfilm Ltd. (r) & TM

Pablo Hidalgo<BR>
An expert on a variety of genre obsessions, from classic animation to shape-shifting robots, Pablo Hidalgo started
writing about fantastic subject matters professionally in 1995 as a freelance author for roleplaying games. In 2000,
he changed careers from a visual effects concept artist and digital compositor in Canada to a full-time Star Wars
authority at Lucasfilm Ltd., working in their online department. Since then, he has overseen the development of
websites, co-authored several books and developed a number of online comic books and strips. He is currently
managing editor for StarWars.com, overseeing daily publication of content as well as developing special online spin-
off projects for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He lives in San Francisco.
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Gus Lopez<BR>
Gus Lopez created The Star Wars Collector's Archive (theswca.com) in 1994 the first Star Wars collecting website
on the Internet. He has written many articles on Star Wars collecting for various publications over the years
including a column on Star Wars collectibles for Star Wars Insider. He has given talks on Star Wars
collecting at many toy, science fiction, and Star Wars conventions in Europe, Asia, and North America. Gus ran the
Star Wars collecting tracks for the four Star Wars Celebration events in the US, Celebration Europe in the UK, and
Celebration Japan. He is coauthor (with Duncan Jenkins) of Gus and Duncan's Comprehensive Guide to Star Wars
Collectibles published by Completist Publications, the largest Star Wars collecting guide ever assembled. Gus
lives in Seattle with his wife, Pamela.
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Daniel Wallace <BR>
Daniel Wallace is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Characters
as well as a dozen more books that explore the underpinnings of the Star Wars universe, such as Star Wars: The
Essential Atlas and The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia. He is a regular contributor to Star Wars
Insider magazine and assembled the questions used in the Star Wars Trivial Pursuit game. In addition to his
contributions to the galaxy far, far away, he has written for universes including Indiana Jones, Smallville,
Supernatural, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics, with books including The Marvel Encyclopedia, The DC
Comics Chronicle, and The Art of Superman Returns.
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Ryder Windham<BR>
Ryder Windham is the author of over sixty Star Wars titles, including Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate
Collection and the New York Times-bestseller Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide. He has written
junior novelizations of Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies and scripted numerous comics. An occasional freelance
cartoonist and storyboard artist, he is an instructor and Certificate Program Advisor for Comics and Sequential Art at
Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education.<BR><BR>