1. Bob Eggleton won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2001 for his art book Greetings from Earth.
10 Facts About Bob Eggleton
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Bob Eggleton won the Chesley Award for Artistic Achievement in 1999 and was the guest of honor at Chicon 2000.
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Bob Eggleton illustrated matte paintings on the short film The Idol and was an extra in the Millennium Godzilla film Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla.
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Bob Eggleton was born September 13,1960, in Concord, Massachusetts.
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Bob Eggleton's drawing and paintings cover a wide range of genre topics, often depicting dinosaurs and prehistoric life, dragons and fantasy creatures, giant monsters such as Godzilla, Lovecraftian entities, space vistas and vintage rocket ships, etc.
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Bob Eggleton's paintings are commissioned and bought at science fiction conventions and used as book covers.
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Bob Eggleton received massive encouragement from his father, in the form of books, supplies, visits to museums of space and aeronautics and support during the career choices he made.
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Bob Eggleton dropped out of his art college, because he felt it was not for him.
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Bob Eggleton is a fan of Toho's Godzilla film franchise, and has illustrated numerous comics, magazines and children's books based on the character.
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Bob Eggleton has illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.