Asni’s Art Blog: Happy Goat Year!
Happy goat everyone! Year year many fish, ten thousand things like will, dragon horse sperm god, step step high rise.
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Surrealism: The Art of Disquiet
Sometimes life becomes so strange, so patently absurd, so like a bizarre waking dream that we say it has become surreal.
Asni’s Art Blog: Quetzalcoatl
In the next few blogs, I will have a look at magical birds – messengers between the human realm and the supernatural in many cultures. First off, Quetzalcoatl: the feathered snake of the Mexicans.
Judging Book Covers: Have Spacesuit – Will Travel
A gallery of illustrations for Heinlein’s Have Space Suit – Will Travel, (Soon to be a major motion picture?)
Asni’s Art Blog: Fireworks
What better topic to choose for my New Year’s Eve post, than Fireworks!
Transit of the Holidays
As we transit from Christmas to New Years let’s take a look back at some of the images that got left behind.
Science Fiction Christmas
Since this is my last post before Christmas I feel I should at least acknowledge the holiday season. Not everybody celebrates, true, but in this day and age everybody knows about it. So, Christmas is […]
Asni’s Art Blog: Beyond Earthsea
The only book by Ursula Le Guin, outside the Earthsea series, which has received consistent attention from artists and illustrators is The Left Hand of Darkness.
The Illustrated Dune (or, Why I Hate Sam Weber)
Frank Herbert’s Dune has been a favorite subject for science fiction illustrators for years. Now Sam Weber is about to release a new illustrated edition.
Science Fiction Bikini
Science fiction bikini seems like a simple juxtaposition of words, but examining the phrase reveals much of the cultural and social baggage packed inside.
Novedades de Noviembre en Hispanoamérica
New conventions, conferences, magazine issues & releases
Asni’s Art Blog: The Painting of Earthsea (part 5)
By and large, the illustrators on DeviantArt are far more respectful of how the characters are described by the author, than the professional illustrators responsible for the various cover versions.
Review: Boilerplate – History’s Mechanical Marvel by Guinan and Bennett
Boilerplate – History’s Mechanical Marvel by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett is a fun, reflective look at of what would’ve, could’ve, and maybe even should’ve been if this robot existed.
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Jaws That Bite
Landshark! Some authors aren’t happy with their cover art….
Review: Steampunk LEGO by Guy Himber
Steampunk LEGO by Guy Himber is a visually stimulating look at the creative possibilities within the LEGO world using the innovative theme found in Steampunk.
Judging More Books by Their Covers: The Silver Warriors
Judging books by their covers is made more difficult when the book in question has two titles as does Michael Moorcock’s The Silver Warriors
Asni’s Art Blog: The Painting of Earthsea (part 4)
In this post, I would like to introduce my own visual interpretation of Earthsea and its places and characters
Judging Books by Their Covers: BABEL 17
Let’s have some fun. Let’s live dangerously. Let’s run with scissors. Let’s open up an umbrella indoors. Lets judge some books by their covers! Judging a book by its cover is not wise, but we […]
The Artful Collector: The World Fantasy Convention 2014
I have to confess, reporting on a convention is usually crazy fun for me. It’s an occasion for legitimate name-dropping of all the new artists I met, and for describing all manner and sorts of […]
Featured Artist Chaz Kemp
Bram Stoker Award nominated artist Chaz Kemp combines the Art Nouveau’s style, vibrancy, and color schemes into fantasy and steampunk themes
Asni’s Art Blog: The Painting of Earthsea (part 3)
I picked up the animated movie version from Studio Ghibli and was delighted to see Tenar pop up again. There must be a fourth book then!
The Artful Collector: My One and Only
One-Of-A-Kind: Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. Maybe you want to buy it anyway….
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