Ron Walotsky

Ron Walotsky (21 August 1943 – July 29, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy artist who studied at the School of Visual Arts.

Born in Brooklyn, he began a long and prolific career painting book and magazine covers starting with the May 1967 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. His first book cover was for Living Way Out by Wyman Guin.[1] He would go on to do covers for Stephen King, Anne Rice,[2] Bruce Sterling, Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg, John Varley and many others. He was also nominated for the Chesley Awards twelve times.[3] Some of his art is collected in Inner Visions: The Art of Ron Walotsky (2000).

Walotsky has illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game. Ron Walotsky also did an oil painting to be used as a poster for Dorothy Dietrich, a well known magician and curator of The Houdini Museum In Scranton, Pa.

References

  1. ^ SF Crows Nest
  2. ^ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  3. ^ Locus Index to SF Awards Archived 2011-11-04 at the Wayback Machine