For over forty years the characters of John Bellairs have been brought to life through the creativity of many prominent artists, including Marilyn Fitschen, a longtime friend of Bellairs, and Edward Gorey, whose pen-and-ink drawings and watercolor dust-jackets added a distinctive and eerie touch to the imaginative stories of wizards, mansions, and talismans. |
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Judith Gwyn Brown
Judith Gwyn Brown is the illustrator of both cover and interior artwork in the 1978 hardcover edition of The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn.
Brown was born in New York City on October 15, 1933. She attended Cooper Union and the Parsons School of Design and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history and English from New York University in 1956. Brown learned the technical aspects of book design and offset printing while working for a printer doing paste-ups and book jackets from 1958 to 1960. Since 1959 she has been a free-lance illustrator.
Her first book, Marjorie Paradis' Mr. De Luca's Horse, was published in 1962. Since then Brown has illustrated more than forty books and has written and illustrated four of her own, as well as contributed to anthologies, periodicals, and the New York Times. Among the many famous children's authors whose works she has illustrated are Padraic Colum, Margaret Hodges, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Noel Streatfeild, and Andre Norton.
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Alexander Daniloff
Artist Alexander Daniloff is the illustrator of the 2009 Italian edition The Figure in the Shadows. A native of Donetsk (USSR), Daniloff has painted scenes, costumes, and playbills for the puppet theater, illustrated books, and has work on display in the National Museum of Nizhny Novgorod.
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| Richard Egielski
Richard Egielski's first work for Dial was 1976's The Letter, The Witch, and the Ring. Egielski also illustrated The Tub People and The Tub Grandfather, both by Pam Conrad, and was the winner of the 1987 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in Hey, Al.
Mr. Egsielski lives in Milford, New Jersey.
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Marilyn Fitschen
Marilyn Fitschen is the illustrator for John Bellairs’ first three books: St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, The Pedant and the Shuffly, and The Face in the Frost. |
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Bart Goldman
Bart Goldman is the cover artist for The House Where Nobody Lived and The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer and has illustrated Puffin paperbacks in the Lewis Barnavelt series from The House with a Clock in Its Walls through The Doom of the Haunted Opera.
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Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000) is the most popular illustrator of many of John Bellairs' books, as well as a well-known author and illustrator in his own right. Gorey's bizarre stories and macabre black-and-white illustrations reflected an elegantly morbid sense of humor in books, on the stage and on television that made him one of the most distinctive American illustrators. |
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Brett Helquist
Brett Helquist completed cover art for the Puffin re-released paperbacks of The Specter from the Magician's Museum and The Beast Under the Wizard's Bridge.
Born in Ganado, Arizona, Helquist graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah in 1993 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He later moved to New York City, where he currently lives with his wife, Mary Jane Callister. He has illustrated for many magaziines, newspaper, and publishing clients including: The New York Times, TIME for Kids, Harper Collins, and Farrar Straus and Giroux. He is best known as the illustrator of the seven titles in the Series of Unfortunate Events, published by Harper Collins.
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Lalex
Lalex is the French illustrator of the Kévin et les Magiciens and Johnny Dixon series. She is a professional illustrator, whose specialty is pin-ups with artwork appearing in fanzines, magazines, and many websites.
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Steve Lavis
Steve Lavis is a British illustrator who created covers for the Johnny Dixon series published by Corgi (UK) in the mid/late 1980s. His artwork has graced the cover of many fantasy works, including a series of memorable covers in the Chronicles of Narnia series. He also produces work for many children's books.
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Carl Lundgren
Artist Carl Lundgren created the cover for the Ace paperback of The Face in the Frost.
Lundren is a native of Detroit and has created posters for such bands as The Who, Pink Floyd, and Jefferson Airplane and more, using graphics and lettering that he created from scratch.
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Mercer Mayer
Mercer Meyer is the illustrator of 1975's The Figure in the Shadows. He has published over 300 books and is best known for his Little Critter and Little Monster series.
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Rowena Morrill
Popular fantasy artist Rowena Morrill's artwork is featured on the cover of the Collier Books edition of The Face in the Frost.
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Anton Pieck
The artwork of Anton Pieck is found on the cover of the Olmstead Press edition of The Face in the Frost.
Born in 1895 in the small Netherlands town of Den Helder, Pieck worked as an art teacher in Bloemendaal for forty years, retiring in 1960. He continued producing work until late in life, and died at Overveen in 1987, at the age of 92.
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S.D. Schindler
S.D. Schindler is the cover artist of The Tower at the End of the World and The Whistle, the Grave and the Ghost.
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Anke Siebert
Living and working in Munich, Anke Siebert is the illustrator of the German editions in the Lewis Barnavelt series. She works independently as a graphic artist and illustrator
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David K. Stone
Cover art for Yearling paperback editions of The House with a Clock in its Walls, The Figure in the Shadows, and The Letter, The Witch, and the Ring was created by David Stone (1922-2001).
Stone was a native of Reedsport, Oregon and an illustrator for over 80 books and magazines. His paintings are part of a permanent collection in the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Princeton University, the Smithsonian Institution, Society of Illustrators, as well as in private collections.
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Paul Zelinsky
The work of Paul Zelinsky can be found on the Puffin re-release paperbacks in the John Dixon series, from The Curse of the Blue Figurine to The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost. Zelinsky grew up in Wilmette, Illinois and now resides in Brooklyn, New York. His first book appeared in 1978, since which time he has become recognized as one of the most inventive and critically successful artists in the field. He is the 1998 recipient of the Caldecott Medal.
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