{"id":109,"date":"2011-05-26T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2011\/05\/26\/on-to-baycon\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:44:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:44:58","slug":"on-to-baycon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2011\/05\/26\/on-to-baycon\/","title":{"rendered":"On to Baycon"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BAYCON2011logo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BAYCON2011logo.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a> I\u2019m Artist Guest of Honor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baycon.org\/2011\/\">BayCon<\/a> this weekend, along with Author GoH &amp; 2011 Hugo Award finalist Mary Robinette Kowal as well as Fan GoH Bobbie DuFault &amp; Toastmaster Martin Young. Highlights of my schedule include:\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">**** Saturday 2:30p: Artist GoH Interview<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As acquiring editor for Golden Gryphon Press from 1999 through 2007, Marty Halpern acquired eleven book covers from artist John Picacio. Some of these covers were for books by such well-known authors as Jeffrey Ford, George Alec Effinger, and Lucius Shepard. This talk will be about the process of developing covers for books from the perspective of an artist working with an editor.<br><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Marty Halpern, John Picacio<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">**** Saturday 4:00p: The Worlds of George R. R. Martin<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Artist John Picacio, who has done the artwork for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0345525426\/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-2&amp;pf_rd_r=1MRM8H7B05DNS4VS63AY&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=470938631&amp;pf_rd_i=507846\">2012 A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar<\/a>, speaks about his work in that universe, and Kevin Andrew Murphy talks about writing in the Wild Card universe.<br><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Kevin Andrew Murphy, John Picacio (M)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">(Note to GRRM \/ Game of Thrones \/ 2012 Calendar fans \u2014 I highly recommend you show up at this panel. You\u2019ll be glad you did. That\u2019s all I\u2019m sayin\u2019\u2026:))<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">**** Sunday 4:00p: The Art of John Picacio<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Artist Guest of Honor John Picacio presents a slideshow and question-&amp;-answer session discussing recent artworks from his Hugo Award-nominated body of book cover and institutional work, and the process and ideas behind their making. <br><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">John Picacio<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">(Again, GRRM &amp; ASOIAF fans \u2014 same note as above. :))<\/span><\/p>\n<p>***********<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baycon.org\/2011\/schedule_list.php\">I\u2019ll be on several other panels as well<\/a>, plus I\u2019ll have plenty of work hanging in the Art Show. Don\u2019t be a stranger!<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Artist Guest of Honor at BayCon this weekend, along with Author GoH &amp; 2011 Hugo Award finalist Mary Robinette Kowal as well as Fan GoH Bobbie DuFault &amp; Toastmaster Martin Young. Highlights of my schedule include: **** Saturday 2:30p: Artist GoH Interview As acquiring editor for Golden Gryphon Press from 1999 through 2007, Marty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BAYCON2011logo.jpg?fit=196%2C282","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-1L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}