Here’s a visual history of the winners of the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist. The Hugo Awards started in 1953. However, the Best Professional Artist category wasn’t created until 1955. Since then, seventeen pro artists have been recognized with the award in that category (eighteen if you count Leo and Diane Dillon as individuals…
Still haven’t quite wrapped my brain around that one. Dreamed about it for many, many years, but now that it’s reality, it still hasn’t sunk in, even several days after a magical night. A lot to say — what follows are highlights from an amazing weekend. If you want to just read the Hugo reaction,…
Here’s where you can find me at this year’s Dragon*Con before I swing over to Chicago for Worldcon. Friday, August 312:30pm / Hanover G – Hyatt (1 hour) The Art Of George R. R. Martin: Making The Calendar Artist John Picacio presents a slideshow and Q&A featuring the artworks he created for the best-selling 2012…
Here’s the official cover for Pyr‘s release of Ian McDonald’s forthcoming YA novel — BE MY ENEMY. This is the followup to his terrific YA debut PLANESRUNNER — a Sidewise Awards finalist, and runnerup in this year’s Locus Awards for Best YA Novel. Here’s a little behind-the-scenes that shows why art directors are one of…
Wanted to thank the mighty io9 for sharing several process posts featuring my artwork for the 2012 George R. R. Martin / A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar. In recent weeks, I’ve shared the making of the artwork for Eddard Stark, Bran Stark, Sansa Stark and the Hound, Jon Snow and Ghost, Melisandre, and…
Here you go — for the first time anywhere — this is my full final cover art for Brenda Cooper‘s forthcoming Pyr novel, THE CREATIVE FIRE: BOOK ONE OF RUBY’S SONG. You’ll notice that this has been improved from the catalog version previewed on Amazon and elsewhere in recent weeks. (The final cover of the…
Congrats to all of the 2012 Chesley Award finalists! I’m honored to be a finalist this year in the Best Product Illustration category for my 2012 George R. R. Martin / A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar work. 🙂 Here’s the complete list. Voting by ASFA members ends July 7th. Winners will be announced…
Shoutout to all George R. R. Martin / A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones fans — I’ll be appearing at DeepSouthCon 50 next week in Huntsville, Alabama. I’ll have some ASoIaF goodies for sale in the Art Show — and I’ve got a special giveaway for you too. One lucky DeepSouthCon…
A while back, I was invited to contribute a perspective on “Gender Parity on SF/F Convention Panels” for the forthcoming issue of JOURNEY PLANET. It’s caused me to consider my own role as a panel participant at conventions, and as an artist at convention art shows. I’ve written my essay on the subject, and I’m…
As fast as this last two months has zoomed by, I don’t think I ever got time to acknowledge the 2012 Hugo Award nominations on my blog here. So let’s fix that right now. While I was on the road at Spectrum Live last week, the Chicon 7 admins released the 2012 Hugo Award packet.…