- Frank Kelly Freas
Frank Kelly Freas (27 August 1922 - 2 January 2005), called the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists," was a prolific and popular science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years. Born in Hornell, New York, United States, Freas (pronounced like the English word "freeze") was educated at Lafayette High School in Buffalo, where he received training from long-time art teacher Elizabeth Weiffenbach.
- Frank R. Paul
Frank Rudolph Paul (April 18 1884 - June 29 1963) was an illustrator of US pulp magazines in the science fiction field. He was born in Vienna, Austria and died in Teaneck, New Jersey. A discovery of Hugo Gernsback (himself an immigrant from Luxembourg), Frank R. Paul was influential in defining what both cover art and interior illustrations in the nascent science fiction pulps of the 1920s looked like.
- Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta (born February 9,1928) is one of the world's most influential fantasy and science fiction artists. He is one of the most emulated artists of these genres in the world.
- Jim Burns
Jim Burns is an artist born in Cardiff, South Wales in 1948. In 1966 he joined the Royal Air Force seemingly on a quest to become a pilot. Due to standards he was unable to meet he was, however, forced to leave the Air Force in search of another direction in life. He signed up at the Newport School of Art for a year's foundation course. He was accepted and went on to complete a 3-year Diploma in Art and Design course at St. Martin's School of Art in London.
- Frank Wu
Frank Wu is a science fiction and fantasy artist living in Palo Alto. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist in 2004 and 2006; he was previously nominated in 2002 and 2003. He also won the Grand Prize (the Gold Award) in the Illustrators of the Future contest in 2002. He works in many media, including acrylic and digital painting. He created a portrait of a Klingon girl for the documentary about the Klingon language, "Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water".
- Chris Foss
Christopher Foss (born 1946) is a British illustrator and science fiction artist, best known for his science fiction book covers and the illustrations for the original editions of "The Joy of Sex".
- Bob Eggleton
Bob Eggleton (born September 13, 1960) is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror artist. Eggleton has been honored with the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist eight times, first winning in 1994. Eggleton was the guest of honor at Chicon 2000. Eggleton's drawing and paintings cover a wide range of science fiction, fantasy, and horror topics, depicting space ships, alien worlds and inhabitants, dragons, vampires, and other fantasy creatures.
- Wally Wood
Wallace Allan Wood was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work in EC Comics and "Mad". Although much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood, he became known as Wally Wood, a name he claimed to dislike. Within the comics community, he was also known as Woody, a name he sometimes used as a signature.
- H. R. Giger
Hans Ruedi Giger (born at Chur, Grisons canton, February 5, 1940) is an Academy Award-winning Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer best known for his design work on the film "Alien".
- Chesley Bonestell
Chesley Bonestell (1888 - 11 june 1986) was a painter, designer and illustrator. His paintings were a major influence on science fiction art and illustration, and he helped inspire the American space program.
- John Berkey
John Berkey is an artist who is famous for his space and sci-fi-themed works. He created some of the early artwork for the original Star Wars trilogy and also painted the infamous "Old Elvis Stamp" He has worked as a freelance artist since the 1960s, after an eight-year stint at a St. Paul, Minnesota advertising agency. He resides in Excelsior, Minnesota. On March 22, 2007, Excelsior, MN honored him with "John Berkey Day." He was Artist Guest of Honor at Minicon 35 in 2000
- Josh Kirby
Ronald William "Josh" Kirby (27 November 1928-23 October 2001), was an English commercial artist born in Waterloo, Sefton, Merseyside. He was educated at the Liverpool City School of Art, where he acquired the nickname Josh, which comes from having his work compared to that of Sir Joshua Reynolds. The nickname stuck and Kirby was rarely called by his real name later. Kirby painted film-posters, magazine and book covers. Creating a total of over 400 cover paintings, …
- Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan (born June 29, 1950) is a multiple-award-winning American artist specializing in science fiction and fantasy illustration. His art has appeared on over 350 book and magazine covers, including most of the Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series, Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star series, the DAW editions of Michael Moorcock's Elric books, numerous DAW editions of C. J. Cherryh's work, …
- Syd Mead
Syd Mead (born July 18, 1933 in St. Paul, MN) is an industrial designer best known for his vehicle designs in science-fiction films such as "Blade Runner", "Aliens", and "Tron". In much of his film work, he is billed as a "visual futurist" or "conceptual designer".
- Virgil Finlay
Virgil Finlay (July 23 1914-January 18 1971) was a pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. While he worked in a range of media, from gouache to oils, Finlay specialized in, and became famous for, beautifully detailed pen-and-ink drawings accomplished with abundant stippling and cross-hatching. Despite the very labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of his specialty, Finlay created more than 2600 works of graphic art in his 35-year career.
- David A. Cherry
David A. Cherry is an American artist, primarily in the science fiction and fantasy genres. His artworks have been nominated eight times for Hugo Awards, and he is a past president of the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists. David is the brother of the science fiction writer C. J. Cherryh ("Cherry" is the original spelling of the last name of the family), and has painted cover art for some of her books as well as books by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Sean Dalton, …
- Boris Vallejo
Boris Vallejo (born January 8 1941 in Lima, Peru) is an American painter. He emigrated to the United States in 1964, and currently resides in Allentown in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. He frequently works with his wife, painter and model Julie Bell. Vallejo works almost exclusively in the fantasy and erotica genres.
- Donato Giancola
Donato Giancola (born 1967) is a multiple award winning American artist specializing in science fiction and fantasy illustration.
- Rick Sternbach
Richard Michael Sternbach (born in 1951 in Bridgeport Connecticut) is an illustrator who is best known for his space illustrations and his work on the Star Trek television series.
- Vincent di Fate
Vincent Di Fate (born Yonkers, New York November 21, 1945) is a multiple-award-winning American artist specializing in science fiction and fantasy illustration. Di Fate studied at the Phoenix School of Design in New York City and received his MA in Illustration at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.
- Stephen Hickman
Stephen Hickman (born April 9, 1949) is an award-winning American artist, illustrator, sculptor and author. He is best known for his work in science fiction and fantasy with over 350 book and magazine covers to his credit. His efforts have brought an extra dimension to the stories of Robert A. Heinlein, H.P. Lovecraft, Anne McCaffery, and Andre Norton.
- Ed Emshwiller
Ed Emshwiller (also known as "Emsh was a visual artist notable for illustrations of many science fiction magazine covers and for his pioneering computer-generated movies. Born in Lansing, Michigan, he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1947, then studied at École des Beaux Arts (1949-1950) in Paris with his wife, the award-winning writer Carol Emshwiller (née Fries), whom he married on August 30, 1949, …
- Hannes Bok
Hannes Bok, pseudonym for Wayne Woodard (July 2, 1914 - April 11, 1964), was an American illustrator and writer of fantasy fiction. His illustrations mainly appeared on the covers of science fiction novels and in such magazines as "If", "Weird Tales", "Other Worlds", "Fantasy Fiction", "Imagination", "Castle of Frankenstein", "Planet Stories," and "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction".
- 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 Professional Artist, science fiction's highest honor for an artist. His peers in the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists have honored him ten times with a Chesley Award for outstanding achievement, …
- Alex Schomburg
Alex Schomburg (born 1905, Puerto Rico; died 1998) was a prolific American commercial and comic book artist and painter whose career lasted over 70 years. Schomburg moved to New York City in the early 1920s and began work as a commercial artist with three of his brothers. In 1928, the brothers' partnership ended and Schomburg found work with the National Screen Service, creating lantern slides and working on movie trailers there through 1944.
- David Mattingly
David Burroughs Mattingly (born June 29, 1956, Fort Collins, Colorado) is an American illustrator and painter best known for his numerous book covers of science fiction and fantasy literature. David began drawing and painting as a small child, influenced by comic books, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and a wide array of artists from Jim Steranko, to N.C. Wyeth, to Jackson Pollock.
- Roy Krenkel
Roy Gerald Krenkel (1918 - 24 February 1983), often referred to as simply RGK, was an American illustrator who specialized in fantasy drawings and paintings.
- Jack Gaughan
Jack Gaughan (1930-1985) was an American Science Fiction Artist and illustrator who won the Hugo Award several times. Working primarily with Donald A. Wollheim at Ace Books and later DAW Books, and also "Galaxy Magazine" during the late 1960s, …
- Richard M. Powers
Richard M. Powers (February 24 1921 - March 9 1996) was a science fiction illustrator.
- Chris Moore
Chris Moore (born 1947) is a British illustrator, particularly noted for his book covers, especially in the field of science fiction. He has created cover images for works by many of the most famous authors in science fiction, including since 1998 the majority of book covers for Orion Publishing's SF Masterworks series. Non SF authors whose work he has provided covers for include Jeffrey Archer, Frederick Forsyth, Jackie Collins, Claire Francis, Stephen Leather, …
- James Turner
James Turner is an illustrator and comic book writer and artist. His current series is Rex Libris for the Slave Labor Graphics (SLG) Publishing Company.
- Barclay Shaw
Barclay Shaw is an American professional artist best known for his fantasy and science fiction artwork. He has been nominated five times for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist, and has earned a top ten ranking six times in the annual Locus Poll Award for Best Artist. In 1995, his work "Wonderland (wood)" won the Chesley Award for Best Three-Dimensional Art. Shaw has painted more than 500 book and magazine covers, …
- George Barr
George Barr (born 1937) is a US science fiction and fantasy artist whose work shows influences from Arthur Rackham, Hannes Bok and Virgil Finlay. "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" describes him as one of the least appreciated SF/fantasy artists. His work is often romantic and whimsical. His technique involves overlaying pen and ink linework with pastel watercolors.
- 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.
- Richard Corben
Richard Corben (born October 1 1940) is an American comic book artist best known for his illustrated fantasy stories in "Heavy Metal" (HM) magazine. He was born on a farm in Anderson, Missouri. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute, in 1965. After a short stint as a professional animator, Corben started doing underground comics in 1970, when he started illustrating horror comics for Warren Publishing.
- Don Dixon
Born in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1951, Don Dixon is an astronomical artist practicing space art in the tradition of Chesley Bonestell, who believed that scientific accuracy is a fundamental aspect of the esthetic of this genre. Space artists attempt to depict realistically parts of the universe that have not yet been explored by astronauts or robotic probes. Dixon has created cover art for Scientific American, Sky and Telescope, OMNI, …
- Angus McKie
Angus McKie is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry. He is best known as an English science fiction illustrator whose work appeared on the covers of numerous science fiction paperback novels in the mid 1970s and 1980s, as well as in Stewart Cowley's Terran Trade Authority series of illustrated books. His illustrations often present highly detailed spacecraft against vividly colored backgrounds and high-tech constructions.
- Ron Miller
Ron Miller (b. May 8, 1947 - Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an artist and author who lives and works near Fredericksburg, Virginia in the United States of America. His current work is primarily the writing and illustration of books specializing in astronomical, astronautical and science fiction subjects for young adults. Miller holds a BFA from Columbus, Ohio, College of Art and Design. He worked as a commercial artist and designer for six years, …
- Rowena Morrill
Rowena A. Morrill (born 1945) is well known in the world of science-fiction and fantasy illustration. During a career that has spanned over 20 years, her paintings have appeared on hundreds of book covers, on calendars, portfolios, trading cards and in magazines such as Playboy and Omni. Books of her own work have included "The Fantastic Art of Rowena", "Imagine" (in France), "Imagination" (in Germany), and "The Art of Rowena".
- Keith Parkinson
Keith Parkinson (October 22 1958 - October 26 2005) was an American fantasy artist and illustrator. Known for cover and game artwork for games such as "Everquest"," Magic: The Gathering "and most recently "Vanguard: Saga of Heroes", a game being developed by Sigil Games.