WHAT'S NEW IN THE WORLD OF JOHN PICACIO
Thanks to my pal Jeff Lucas for giving me the heads-up on this. Check out pg. 76 of the April issue of SCI FI MAGAZINE where Adam-Troy Castro offers an awesome review of ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS and a brief sidebar interview with the Grandmaster himself, Michael Moorcock. SCI FI rates the book an A+!! Can't beat that.... :)
posted by John Picacio at 9:17 PM
JOHN PICACIO is a two-time Hugo Award-winning illustrator of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He is the owner and founder of Lone Boy. His artwork has illustrated the covers of books and works by Michael Moorcock, George R. R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Dan Simmons, Joe R. Lansdale, Jeffrey Ford, Frederik Pohl, James Tiptree, Jr., Mark Chadbourn, and many more. His accolades also include the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, seven Chesley Awards, and two International Horror Guild Awards, all in the Artist category. He is currently illustrating more cover and storytelling art for worldwide clients, and more Loteria card art for 2014.
12 Comments:
No, an A+ is pretty hard to beat!
Congrats to Mr. Moorcock!
Thanks, Christine. Hope you're doing well over there! :)
Best,
John
I'm well! Hubby is in Portland for 3 days. The sun is shining and it's 44F out, so I took a morning walk. Spring has arrived - flowers, trees, cats, & dogs!
Glad to hear it! I'm not sure if we get spring here in San Antonio. I think it goes from a mild winter straight into summer. ;)
Already getting muggy here, but far from unbearable....yet. Decent weather overall though....no complaints. Traci and I do miss the cool temperatures up there in Seattle. Boy, that was nice. I think we're also skewed because we managed to get near-perfect weather for the three pure tourist days we had up there. It's now one of our favorite cities.
Someday we'll get to Portland.....never been there....haven't been to Vancouver either.....we've heard great things about that town.
Portland's Powell's Books original branch just on the edge of the Pearl District has a HUGE science fiction section. You should get a book signing gig there.
The Portland Art Museum is fantastic! We saw the China exhibit with all the terra cotta soldiers there & the Egyptian artefacts exhibit there. And lots of other wonderful exhibits also.
The Pearl District has food, food, food. Plus shops. And did I mention that it has food?
Well, I could go on forever about Portland. But you & Traci would really enjoy it.
Congratulations to Mike and John!
A+ for Elric is pretty sweet!
Super-cool!
I'm very happy the book is well received!
Cheers,
Joe
Thanks, Christine....thanks, Joe!
Sorry I've been a bit absent here.....it's because I've been completely present here in the studio working on new covers. Much more soon....:)
Oh good! I was beginning to wonder if you'd been swept away in the storms! or melted in the muggy heat!
Can't wait to see the new covers!
Hi, Christine --
Nothing that bad thankfully. At the moment, I'm working on two STAR TREK covers and I'm finishing the final cover for the new Pyr edition of Robert Silverberg's SON OF MAN. This one will be a wraparound cover. I'll post it here as soon as it's done.
Also working on the covers for Lou Anders' next big anthology FAST FORWARD 2 and the next Mike Resnick STARSHIP book. More to come after that. It's been busy.....:)
Busy is good!
It's a beautiful day today - 72 degrees tomorrow!
We went out to b reakfast down by the beach - later we'll go back down to walk.
Hi, Christine --
Just touching base.....I haven't blogged in a while, and I'll have much to say in the next couple of days. Like I mentioned before, I'm working on several covers and just trying to stay focused on the art, so I haven't been blogging in the meantime. SON OF MAN is almost done though, and I'll be curious to see what folks think. Hope you're doing well over there. :)
Well, we had 2 days of sun & then the rain returned. Today is "guess we better file our taxes day" - why do it ahead of time when you can do it the last day? ;-)
We finalized our trip to Frisco - May 2-6 - got hotel reserves & everything!
I just finished reading a Lackey/Roberta(somethin)> book. Well, I didn't really read all of it. I read the first 25% and the last 25%, and even that was too much. Then I picked up Mieville's "Scars" (british version). It's really amazing how some authors you only need to read the first 2 sentences and you're hooked!
Glad to hear you're still cooking on your art! I know the covers will be fantastic, and it's great that you share them with us!
Take care,
Christine
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