{"id":27,"date":"2014-07-10T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2014\/07\/10\/2014-world-fantasy-award-nominee\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:42:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:42:23","slug":"2014-world-fantasy-award-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2014\/07\/10\/2014-world-fantasy-award-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 World Fantasy Award Nominee!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>Heard the terrific news this morning via social media (thank you, Kimm Antell and Charles Tan). Wow \u2014 grateful and honored to be a World Fantasy Award nominee for Artist, along with\u00a0Galen Dara<\/a>,\u00a0 Julie Dillon<\/a>,\u00a0 Charles Vess<\/a>, and\u00a0 Zelda Devon<\/a>!!\n

I\u2019m grateful to the WF jury and voters for selecting my past year\u2019s labors as being amongst some of the very best books, works, and makers in fantasy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I owe this honor to the work I did on Loteria in 2013. It\u2019s been a learning experience as I slowly evolve from the status of a creative, into a creator. The journey is ongoing, and it\u2019s filled with peril and challenge. I\u2019m committed to this work, body and soul.<\/p>\n

The first Loteria art was unveiled last year, via my Kickstarter campaign for the 2014 Calendar<\/a>. This ongoing series will eventually be fifty-four new artworks inspired by Loteria \u2014 the classic Mexican game of chance played much like Bingo. This is only the tip of an amazing rhizome that keeps surprising me, as the series unfolds, with more works to be unveiled before the end of this year.<\/p>\n

Pictured here, clockwise from top left: the cover of my 2014 Calendar (featuring \u2018La Sirena\u2019); the pencils for \u2018La Luna\u2019; \u2018El Paraguas\u2019 and \u2018El Arpa\u2019, as seen on their limited-release Loteria Grande prototype cards.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Loteria will be an official game, card deck, and so much more, but before any of that happens \u2014 it will be a major book release. Right now, I\u2019m shopping for the right publishing partner.<\/p>\n

Of the completed Loteria works, \u2018La Sirena\u2019 has already scored a Chesley Award, and \u2018El Arpa\u2019 and \u2018La Luna\u2019 were recently announced as finalists for this year\u2019s Chesley Awards<\/a>. I\u2019m extremely grateful that these individual works are connecting so quickly with so many, and I think this World Fantasy nom is especially meaningful because it acknowledges the first glimpses of my creator-owned body of work.<\/p>\n

To Julie, Zelda, Galen, and Charles \u2014 huge congrats! Pictured here are works from all four of my fellow Artist nominees (clockwise from top left \u2014 Galen Dara<\/a>, Julie Dillon<\/a>, Charles Vess<\/a>, Zelda Devon<\/a>):<\/p>\n

There are so many friends and colleagues across the nominee list that I wish to congratulate, and there are almost too many to name without listing the whole nomination list. I have to give a huge shoutout to Irene Gallo<\/a> though. As most know, she\u2019s Tor\u2019s queen of Art Direction, and the Associate Publisher of Tor.com. She\u2019s a tireless champion of art and artists. She pours herself into the field, and this is her first World Fantasy Award nomination. I\u2019m really thrilled for her.<\/p>\n

Back to work here for me. Again \u2014 huge thanks to the World Fantasy Awards jury, and to the voters. I\u2019ll see you in Washington D.C. for the 40th World Fantasy Convention<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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