With 10 Hugos as
Best Professional
Artist and countless other awards, Kelly Freas is the most popular and prolific
science fiction artist today. His gritty, realistic
work in the 1950s set a new agenda for
magazine and book covers--which artists follow still. But, his painting also can reveal a relaxed humor, with their cheeky scoundrels and personable aliens. More than 24 publications featured his work, including
Analog,
Astounding Science Fiction, and
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He''s illustrated stories by some of the greatest sci-fi writers--Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, e.g.--as well as record and CD art. He also did the original, definitive 3-D bust of Alfred E. Neumann,
Mad magazine''s gap-toothed mascot. A new volume of Freas''s
Art is always something to celebrate, and this one, containing the all the best of his work from 1984 to the present, is no exception.