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2016 Chesley Award Finalist Times Two!

Art Life, AwardsBy John Picacio June 7, 2016

Very proud to be a 2016 Chesley Award Nominee in two categories! Hooray!! 🙂 My Loteria card art for ‘El Arbol’ is a finalist for Best Product Illustration. I’m elated not just because Loteria is my creator-owned property and ongoing ship of dreams, but because ‘El Arbol’ is a tribute to my friend, the great Jay Lake. Even though his novels and…

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

Picacio ArtBy John Picacio December 16, 2015

Here’s my final cover art for the 60th anniversary edition of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Earlier this year, Simon & Schuster / Touchstone’s senior art director Cherlynne Li approached me to cover-illustrate this classic Jack Finney novel, originally titled The Body Snatchers. First serialized in Collier’s Magazine in 1954, the book was collected by Dell into…