Les Edwards is a British artist who has provided horror-related illustrations for a countless number of a book covers, magazines, album covers, and games. Edwards studied at the Hornsby College of Art. He has won the British Fantasy Society award for Best Artist seven times and won the World Fantasy Award in 2008.
Virgil Finlay is considered to be one of the best artists to work in pulp magazines. From the his first publication in 1935 until his death in 1971, Finlay created more than 2600 works of graphic art. He was acclaimed for the amount of detail that he put into his illustrations.
A small sampling his work can be found below. Click on each picture to enlarge.
Judson Huss was born in North Carolina. After studying art at several different design schools, Huss grew dissatisfied with the “modernist” approach of most American instructors and moved to Europe. Huss lived and worked in Paris. His paintings are in select private collections in France, the Netherlands, and America. After his death, much of his work was collected in the retrospective art book, River of Mirrors.
The husband-and-wife team Leo (1933 — 2013) and Diane (1933– ) Dillon met while training at Parsons School of Design and married shortly after graduating in 1956. Over the course of 50 years, they collaborated on over 100 magazine and book covers. Among numerous awards, the Dillons won the Caldecott Medal in both 1976 and 1977, the only time that the award has been won consecutively.
Jerome Rozen was born in Chicago and grew up in Arizona, where he first took art classes from a local teacher. After serving in the army during World War I, Rozen visited the Louvre in Paris and was inspired to pursue a career as an artist. Upon returning home, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was eventually hired as an instructor at the Institute. He also found success painting covers for pulp magazines like The Shadow, Battle Stories, Wu Fang Mysteries, and Western Story. During World War II, Rozen also designed several patriotic posters and magazine advertisements.
A small sampling of his work can be found below.
Yoshitaka Amano, born 1952 in Shizuka, Japan, is one of Japan’s most-renowned artists and illustrators. He also began his career as a character designer for early anime shows like Speed Racer, Gatchaman and Tekkaman. He would continue to build on his portfolio of unique character designs for anime, video game franchises and Japanese pop culture art.
Amano-san has pointed out Western artists such as comic book artist Neal Adams as an inspiration in his own style which when combined with his knowledge and appreciation of the classic Japanese hard woodblock printing known as Ukiyo-e would lead to one of the most unique character styles in mainstream pop-culture.
Yet, Amano-san will forever be known for and continues to be popular for his work in helping design the characters for the the video game rpg franchise known the world over as Final Fantasy.
Alex Schomburg was born into a prosperous family in Puerto Rico in 1905. He moved to New York City in the early 1920s and worked as a freelance artist with his three brothers. Much of Schomburg’s early freelance work was for Timely Comics, which would later become known as Marvel Comics. While working for Timely, Schomburg illustrated covers featuring such iconic comic book heroes as Capt. America and the Human Torch. In the early 1950s, Schomburg left the comics industry and spent the rest of his career doing cover art for science fiction publications.
A small sampling of his work can be found below.
The son of German immigrants, Rudolph Zirm was born in New Jersey. Though he never had any formal artistic training, Zirm pursued a career as a freelance artist after the print shop he worked at closed in 1933. Though he only worked as an artist for 6 years and was never acclaimed during his lifetime, Zirm’s work is now highly praised and sought by collectors.
A sampling of his work can be found below.
Since 1989, Debbie Hughes’ work has appeared in over 150 publications. Her work has been exhibited in galleries across America and can also be purchased from her website. A small sampling of her work can be found below:
Glen Orbik studied art and currently teaches at the California Art Institute. As an artist, he is best known for his fully painted, noir-influenced paperback and comic covers. A small sampling of his work can found below:
Through the Shattered Lens 