1. Charles Vess was born on June 10,1951 and is an American fantasy artist and comics artist who has specialized in the illustration of myths and fairy tales.
15 Facts About Charles Vess
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Charles Vess's influences include British "Golden Age" book illustrator Arthur Rackham, Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha, and comic-strip artist Hal Foster, among others.
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Charles Vess has received numerous awards and honors for his work including the 2019, and 2023 Locus Award for Best Artist, and the 2019 Hugo Awards for Best Professional Artist and Best Art Book for The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition.
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Charles Vess graduated with a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1974.
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Charles Vess contributed illustrations to publications including Heavy Metal, Klutz Press, and National Lampoon.
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From 1980 to 1982 Charles Vess worked as an art instructor at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.
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In 1990, Charles Vess began one of his best-known collaborations to date, with writer Neil Gaiman.
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Charles Vess illustrated "The Land of Summer's Twilight", one of the four episodes in the original The Books of Magic mini-series, and worked on three issues of Gaiman's critically acclaimed The Sandman series.
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Charles Vess drew the covers for the Books of Faerie spin-off series Molly's Story.
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Between 2004 and 2007 Charles Vess adapted a poem by Neil Gaiman into a children's book, Blueberry Girl.
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Charles Vess has illustrated a series of anthologies edited by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow, published by Viking Press.
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In 2004 Charles Vess did both a color cover and front page illustration and additional black and white interior illustrations for a 20th anniversary edition of Moonheart, by de Lint.
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Charles Vess was chosen by Saga Press to illustrate The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, a compilation of all five Earthsea novels, as well as short stories, including some previously unpublished works.
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In 2021 Charles Vess illustrated Joanne Harris's Honeycomb; a collection of 100 interconnected fairy stories forming a mosaic novel.
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Since that time Charles Vess's work has appeared in gallery showings and museum exhibitions including:.