The Beastly Bride

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

CHARLES VESS’s award-winning work has graced the pages of numerous comic book publishers and has been featured in several gallery and museum exhibitions across the nation, including the first major exhibition of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art (New Britain Museum of American Art, 1980). In 1991, Charles shared the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story with Neil Gaiman for their collaboration on Sandman #19 (DC Comics) — the first and only time a comic book has held this honor. More recently, they have collaborated on the picture book Blueberry Girl.

In the summer of 1997, Vess won the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for best penciler/inker for his work on The Book of Ballads and Sagas (since published as a hardcover collection) as well as Sandman #75. In 1999, he received the World Fantasy Award for Best Artist for his work on Neil Gaiman’s Stardust.

He worked with Jeff Smith on Rose, the prequel to Smith’s Bone; his collaborations with his friend Charles de Lint include the picture book A Circle of Cats and the illustrated novels Seven Wild Sisters and Medicine Road. His other work includes the illustrations for Emma Bull’s adaptation of the traditional English ballad “The Black Fox” in the anthology Firebirds, and the cover and decorations for Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, and The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales.

His Web site address is www.greenmanpress.com.