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World Fantasy Award for Best Artist
This World Fantasy Award is given to the artist voted best in the fantasy field by a panel of judges. It is presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.
WFC 2004 was held in Tempe, Arizona. Judges were John Clute, Sherwood Smith, Michael Stackpole, Alain Nevant, and Scott Wyatt.
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Alicia Austin
Alicia Austin (born 1942) is a US fantasy and science fiction artist and illustrator. She works in print-making, Prismacolor, pastels and watercolors. She has illustrated books by Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, Andre Norton, Harold Lamb, Poul...
Lee Brown Coye
Lee Brown Coye (24 July 1907 – 5 September 1981) was an American artist.
Coye is probably best remembered for his black-and-white illustrations for pulp magazines and horror fiction, but he produced many other works in other media.
Coye was born in...
Roger Dean
Roger "Dillon Peterson" Dean (born 31 August 1944), is an English artist, designer, architect and publisher. He is best known for his work on album covers for musicians which he began painting in the late 1960s. The covers usually feature exotic,...
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Dale Enzenbacher
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Stephen Gervais
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Jeff Jones
Jeffrey Catherine Jones (born January 10, 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American artist whose work is best known from the late 1960s through 2000s. She provided over 150 covers for many different types of books through 1976, as well as venturing...
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Robert Gould
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Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan (born June 29, 1950) is an American artist of imaginative realism, formerly working for over 30 years as an illustrator specializing in science fiction and fantasy before devoting all his work to a fine art career.
His art has...
Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Gorey (ca. February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was an American writer and artist noted for his macabre illustrated books.
Edward St. John Gorey was born in Chicago. His parents, Helen Dunham Garvey and Edward Lee Gorey, divorced in...
Thomas Canty
Thomas Canty is an illustrator and book designer in the field of fantasy literature, credited with pioneering a "New Romantic" style of painting, influenced by such 19th century artists as Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, and the Pre-Raphaelites. His...
Don Maitz
Don Maitz is an American science fiction, fantasy, and commercial artist. His most widely-known creation is the "Captain" character of the Captain Morgan brand of rum, although he is perhaps most notable for twice winning the Hugo Award for Best...
Dave McKean
David McKean (born 29 December 1963 in Maidenhead, Berkshire) is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician.
His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital...
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Charles Vess
Charles Vess (b. June 10, 1951 in Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American fantasy artist and comic-book illustrator who has specialized in the illustration of myths and fairy tales. His illustrations are strongly influenced by the work of artists and...
Tim Hildebrandt
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James Gurney
James Gurney (born June 14, 1958) is an artist and author best known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia, which is presented in the form of a 19th century explorer’s journal from an island utopia cohabited by humans and dinosaurs. He lives in...
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Alan M. Clark
Alan Marshall Clark is an author and an artist who is best known as the illustrator and book cover painter of many pieces of horror fiction. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for his 2005 book Siren Promised (co-written...
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Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta (born February 9, 1928) is an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, record-album covers, and other media. He is the subject of a 2003 documentary....
Jacek Yerka
Jacek Yerka (born 1952) is a Polish surreal artist and painter from Toruń.
Born in Poland in 1952, Jacek Yerka studied fine art and graphics prior to becoming a full-time artist in 1980. While at university, Yerka resisted the constant pressures of...
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Jean Giraud
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (born May 8, 1938) is a French comics artist. Giraud has earned worldwide fame, not only under his own name but also under the pseudonym Moebius, and to a lesser extent Gir, the latter appearing mostly in the form of a boxed...
Alan Lee
Alan Lee is an Academy Award winning, English book illustrator and movie conceptual designer. He was born on August 20, 1947 in Middlesex, England and studied at the Ealing School of Art.
He has illustrated several fantasy books, notably several...
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Allen Koszowski
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Tom Kidd
Thomas Kidd (born 1955) is an American science fiction and fantasy illustrator who lives in New Milford, Connecticut.
Kidd described himself as a "scatterbrained" child, but he had a quick talent for drawing and was able to capture nearly anything...
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Gahan Wilson
Gahan Wilson (born February 18, 1930 in Evanston, Illinois) is an author, cartoonist, and illustrator in the United States.
Wilson's cartoons and illustrations are drawn in a playfully grotesque style, and have a dark humor that is often compared to...
Jason Van Hollander
Jason Van Hollander is an award-winning illustrator, book designer and occasional author. His stories and collaborations with Darrell Schweitzer earned a World Fantasy Award nomination. Van Hollander's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Weird...
John Picacio
John Picacio (born Sep 3, 1969) is an award-winning American artist specializing in science fiction, fantasy and horror illustration.
John Picacio was born on the 3rd of September, 1969 in San Antonio, Texas. As of 2007, he still lives and works in...
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James Jean
James Jean is a Taiwanese-American award winning artist and illustrator living in Los Angeles.
He was born in Taiwan but was raised in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey. He was educated at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Upon graduating...
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Donato Giancola
Donato Giancola (born 1967) is an American artist specializing in science fiction and fantasy illustration.
Donato Giancola was born in 1967 and raised in Colchester, Vermont, near Burlington, Vermont. He currently resides in Brooklyn with his wife...
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan (born 1974) is the illustrator and author of award winning children's books such as The Red Tree and The Lost Thing.
Tan was born in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1974 and, after freelancing for some years from a studio at Mt. Lawley,...
