John Pierard
John Pierard is an American artist, and illustrator.
Career
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| Born | January 25, 1955 |
| Occupation | Artist |
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Since 1979 John has worked as an artist/illustrator. He has done work for Marvel Comics, Analog, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Seven Stories Press, Scholastic Books, Bantam Books, to name a few; He Has also done some public art at Lincoln Center, and occasionally does private commissions.
Comments from his sister – “John's serious artistic abilities began showing up when we had moved to a suburb of Tampa, Florida in 1968.”
From the “Personae” Section in “The Secret” Mr. Pierard is a graduate of Syracuse University. His fantasy illustrations have appeared in numerous periodicals and at science fiction conventions in the North-east. He has done thirteen black and white illustrations for Samuel R. Delany's "Prismatica" in Distant Stars and illustrations for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Tor Books, and Franklin Watts.
Further reading
External Links
- http://www.geocities.com/mattpierard_2000/monday2_bw.jpg A recent find, scanned by an old friend of John's, Helen Hough
- http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/welcome.htm Helen features these paintings on her webpages
- http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/nursclas.htm ""
- http://www.gamebooks.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?Type=Illustrator&Text=John+Pierard&Header=Books+Illustrated+by+John+Pierard -- a collection of books John illustrated in the 80's.
- http://noir.com/rich/heresy/Artist=John_Pierard.html Names of the role-playing cards he illustrated
- http://www.3000authors.com/authors/John_Pierard.htm Misleading title to this site posits John as an author, not illustrator; still it is a good compendium of his 90's works
- http://www.arrakis.co.uk/eots.html 3 cards for a Dune role-playing game http://www.apocalypsefiction.com/issfour/slownight.html SFcomic strip that John illustrated in 2001
- http://www.graphicclassics.com/pgs/pierard.htm -- This is John's current publisher (Caution: this page contains adult references)
- http://www.artistsunite-ny.org/events/artstroll/artists/detail.php?artistid=41 Page from a NYC art group