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Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy

  • Spectrum 13

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    I should have written about this sooner, but I have such a long list of goodies to tell you about that it can take a while to get to a particular one. Spectrum 13 (Amazon link) came out a couple of months ago. This is the latest in the Spectrum yearly collections of contemporary fantastic…

  • Bob Eggleton

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    Regular readers of lines and colors know that I try to keep a nice mix of art and artists from across many genres of art. I find it particularly interesting when artists cross those boundaries themselves, and have a web presence that showcases more than one artistic path. Bob Eggleton is a well known fantasy…

  • Jon Foster (update)

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    When I point you to web based resources for images from the artists I feature on lines and colors, I don’t emphasize nearly enough how limited those images are when compared to images in print. I’m second to none in my appreciation for how well images can display on screen. I was one one of…

  • Mark Zug

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    Early in his career illustrator Mark Zug got what he considered a dream job, illustrating Harlan Ellison’s I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay (out of print but can still be found). Since then he has illustrated numerous science fiction and fantasy novels, done editorial illustration for magazines like Popular Science, Amazing Stories, TSR’s Dragon and Dungeon…

  • John Howe

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    Fantasy artist John Howe is best known for his illustrations of J. R. R. Tolkien’s works, creating illustrations for editions of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit and related calendars in the early 90’s. Peter Jackson tapped him, along with Alan Lee, to be lead artists on his large scale movie adaptation. Howe…

  • Karl Kofoed (update)

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    This weekend in Philadelphia science fiction fans will be buzzing around Philcon, The Philadelphia Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy, a venerable sci-fi convention (excuse me, conference) that is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. The artist guest of honor at this years convention is Karl Kofoed, a visionary creator of alien worlds that I…