Nice surprise this morning. Noticed that my cover illustration for George Zebrowski’s MACROLIFE is one of today’s featured works over at Art Blog: The Best of Modern Art, 1800-Present. Check out this quote wherein the blog’s creators describe what kind of art they like, and don’t like:“Most of what has been outstanding art in the…
Just found out about this via Chris Roberson and Win Scott Eckert. We’ve lost another literary giant. Phil Farmer passed away this morning at 4am in Peoria, Illinois. Never got to meet him but many of my author pals count Farmer as a humongous influence. Chris, Win, and Christopher Paul Carey come immediately to mind.…
I’ve accepted an invitation to be one of the exhibiting artists at IlluXCon 2 this November. Here are the details, and safe to say, this will be the sf/fantasy illustration event of the year. Pat and Jeannie Wilshire are the organizers and they’ve invited a who’s who of sf/fantasy art including, Michael Whelan, Bob Eggleton,…
It’s done. Here’s my final cover illustration for the forthcoming Pyr edition of Mark Chadbourn‘s AGE OF MISRULE: BOOK 1 / WORLD’S END, the first of a spectacular epic fantasy series that debuts in the US this May. Blogs and websites all over the net have displayed a preliminary version of my cover illo that…
Wow, Subterranean Press has announced that the limited edition of Dan Simmons’ DROOD will be sold out upon publication. Amazing! What a testament to Dan’s writing and popularity that an $80 limited edition of his latest novel will be a complete sell-out despite the wretched economic times we live in. Congrats to Dan and to…
Good news — this week, I accepted an invitation to be the Artist Guest of Honor for Con*Stellation XXVIII in Huntsville, AL. That’ll be Sept. 19-20, 2009, and I’ll be sharing the GoH stage with stellar authors David Weber and Jack McDevitt as well as Fan GoH Gary Shelton. Very cool!! Many thanks to Sue…
The photo you see here isn’t my work or my studio. This is the studio of Barnet “Barney” Edelman, and his last painting. Today’s my mother’s birthday, and while I certainly don’t need prompting to appreciate her greatness, I’ve had a couple of recent reminders of the value of appreciating what I have while I…
Good stuff to share, while I continue cranking away on lots of new work: * Congrats to FAST FORWARD 2 which was just selected as one of 2008’s best anthologies by LOCUS‘ latest Recommended Reading List. Several FF2 stories were also cited amongst the year’s best including Nancy Kress’ “The Kindness of Strangers”; Paul Cornell’s…