{"id":37,"date":"2014-01-29T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2014\/01\/29\/fantasy-worlds-of-myth-magic\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:42:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:42:35","slug":"fantasy-worlds-of-myth-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2014\/01\/29\/fantasy-worlds-of-myth-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy: Worlds of Myth & Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>The EMP Museum in Seattle is currently featuring a terrific exhibition called Fantasy: Worlds of Myth & Magic<\/a>. If you love fantasy art, literature or film, it\u2019s a must-see.\n

One of my Elric of Melnibone preliminary drawings is on exhibit next to Michael Moorcock\u2019s prototype for Elric\u2019s legendary sword Stormbringer.<\/p>\n

A couple of my artworks for the 2012 George R. R. Martin \/ A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE Calendar are represented, alongside a fabulous Hildebrandt painting here.<\/p>\n

While you\u2019re at the EMP, check out the Icons of Science Fiction<\/a> exhibit too.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite details of the collection is this wall. Look closely and you\u2019ll see Yoda\u2019s walking stick as used by Frank Oz in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. That spiky sphere is the Kryptonian ship that launches Kal-El to Earth in 1978\u2019s SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE. And yup, that\u2019s hanging next to one of the original suits that Christopher Reeve wore for the Superman movies. In the middle of all of that \u2014 one of my cover artworks. This one is for Nancy Kress\u2019 classic BEGGARS IN SPAIN.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just a paperback with my art on it. No big deal.<\/p>\n

But seeing it on a museum wall in the middle of iconic objects that defined my childhood (with Moebius and WATCHMEN on the wall, to boot)?<\/p>\n

It was definitely a full-circle moment.<\/p>\n

It reminded me how grateful I am to do what I do for a living, and it makes me want to do more, do better, and dream bigger.<\/p>\n

A few more pics of characters, real and imaginary, that you might recognize from the Museum\u2019s collection:<\/p>\n

If you plan to travel to the Pacific Northwest anytime soon, or if you\u2019ll be coming to\u00a0 Norwescon<\/a>\u00a0this year \u2014 make sure you check it out!<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EMP Museum in Seattle is currently featuring a terrific exhibition called Fantasy: Worlds of Myth & Magic. If you love fantasy art, literature or film, it\u2019s a must-see. One of my Elric of Melnibone preliminary drawings is on exhibit next to Michael Moorcock\u2019s prototype for Elric\u2019s legendary sword Stormbringer. A couple of my artworks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536,"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-37","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\/2014\/01\/ELRICSlr.jpg?fit=1024%2C820","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}