If you care about the Hugo Awards’ future in the Artist categories (Professional and Fan), then I highly encourage you to check out the following two blogs re: the proposed amendment by Irene Gallo and Donato Giancola: Kevin Standlee’s Livejournal and Irene Gallo’s blog). Irene and Donato are proposing Hugo Award rule amendments that, if…
Two things:1. Photographer Austin Gorum took this impromptu photograph of me at San Diego Comic-Con, and he recently sent me a copy of it. The funny thing is that I first stumbled upon it in a gallery of photographs of Hollywood folks over at Wireimage, in an array with Hilary Swank, Edward James Olmos, Bryan…
Here’s another cover that I recently finished. Above is the wraparound art for the forthcoming cutting-edge sf anthology, FAST FORWARD 1. This one comes out from Pyr next February, and it’s the latest extravaganza from the brilliant mind of Lou Anders. Once again, he’s bringing together some of the best authors in the business with…
Thanks to Jayme Lynn Blaschke, I’ve been tagged with this book meme…. 1. One book that changed your life?SCULPTING IN TIME by Andrey Tarkovsky 2. One book you have read more than once?EINSTEIN’S DREAMS by Alan Lightman 3. One book you would want on a desert island?I’ll cheat and say Stephen King’s THE DARK TOWER…
As if losing David Gemmell this past week weren’t terrible enough….I’d like to take a moment and acknowledge two more notable losses in recent days…. 1. Cheryl Morgan announced this week that her much-loved webzine EMERALD CITY will soon be ceasing publication. It’s a real loss for our industry and I’m very sad to see…
This was a blast. This is the cover illustration that I recently finished for Simon & Schuster/Pocket Star Books for Chris Roberson‘s forthcoming paperback novel X-MEN: THE RETURN. As a teenager, I loved the UNCANNY X-MEN comics, and back then I treasured the Claremont/Byrne/Austin run. If someone would’ve told me back then that I would…
I was really saddened to hear the news of David Gemmell’s passing a few days ago. The folks at Ballantine/Del Rey approached me a few years ago and asked me to do a cover for a U.S. mass market paperback edition of Gemmell’s ECHOES OF THE GREAT SONG. They wanted a more modern graphic approach…
Beginning in September, Pocket will be releasing an all-new mass-market STAR TREK paperback trilogy called STAR TREK: CRUCIBLE. It’s written by David R. George III, and I did the cover art as a triptych so that all three covers connect to form one picture (see above). The trilogy is part of Pocket’s 40th Anniversary celebration…
I returned home late last night from San Diego Comic-Con. Tremendous show. My main agenda up there was to promote my art book, COVER STORY: THE ART OF JOHN PICACIO, and that went extremely well. Between my table, MonkeyBrain‘s table (that they shared with BenBella), Bud Plant‘s booth, and Mysterious Galaxy‘s booth, the book sold…
I’ll be set up there at table CC-15 in Artists’ Alley. Jon Foster and Dave Seeley will be set up on either side of me, and I’m looking forward to seeing those guys. Come by and visit us! I’ll have copies for sale of my art book COVER STORY: THE ART OF JOHN PICACIO. I’ll…