26 Facts About Dave Dorman

Jack Dave Dorman created historically accurate interiors for the planes and was an expert at model building.

Dave Dorman attended Saint Mary's Seminary and University in Maryland and The Kubert School in New Jersey.

Dave Dorman taught a week-long seminar at the art department of Savannah College of Art and Design in the mid-1990s.

Dave Dorman has been asked to teach workshops at Flashpoint Academy and the American Academy of Art, both in Chicago, Illinois.

Dave Dorman is a co-founder of Comix Academy, along with Durwin Talon, Scott Hampton and Christopher Moeller and John van Fleet.

Dave Dorman attended a graphic arts program at St Mary's College in Maryland, but left after a year because it did not have an illustration component.

Dave Dorman began his professional career in 1979, and has done illustration for comic book companies Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, but his break came in 1983, when his artwork first appeared on the cover of Heavy Metal magazine.

In 1994, Dave Dorman was commissioned to do the artwork for a series of 90 trading cards for the Ultraverse comic book setting.

Dave Dorman won a poll of the readers of The Official Best of Star Wars Magazine in 1998, as "Best Star Wars Artist".

Dave Dorman won an Eisner Award in 1993 for his paintings in the book Aliens: Tribes.

Dave Dorman produced all the art for some of West End Games' Star Wars role-playing game supplements in the 1990s.

Dave Dorman did some illustrations for the Micronauts toy line in the early 2000s.

Dave Dorman has been known for more than 20 years because of his photo-realistic style of oil painting.

Dave Dorman held a license with Lucasfilm for many years to do limited edition prints.

Dave Dorman is in development with Hollywood actor Dan Roebuck for a fictional children's book authored by Roebuck.

Dave Dorman has been featured in interviews for the Dennis Miller Radio Show, Mancow's Morning Madhouse, Sci Fi Channel, Turner Network Television's Southern Living Presents magazine program, and WEAR-TV in Pensacola, an ABC affiliate.

Dave Dorman is an avid supporter of Tom Roush's Pensacola Film Festival and the Baytowne Film Festival and he creates the artwork for their annual event posters.

Dave Dorman can be found annually at his Comic-Con booth in San Diego with his contemporaries, Scott Hampton, Christopher Moeller, and John Van Fleet.

In 2010, Dave Dorman was a "special guest" at San Diego Comic-Con International.

Dave Dorman exhibited for the very first C2E2 in Chicago in April 2010.

Dave Dorman regularly attends the Wizard World Chicago, HeroesCon, and Detroit's Motor City Comic Con, and is often the featured guest artist at numerous Magic: The Gathering tournaments.

In 2009, Dave Dorman was a judge for the SPECTRUM Annual, the fantasy world's bible for illustrators.

In 2009, Dave Dorman made history by creating entirely digital art, for his very first time, during Reverie '09, sponsored by MassiveBlack.

Dave Dorman has been the guest of honor at Comic-Con in San Diego three times.

Dave Dorman has been a longtime resident of Shalimar, Florida and of Mill Creek, Illinois.

In 2006, Dave Dorman offered to create an original 3' x 6' oil painting worth US$50,000 for anyone that would buy his home in Shalimar Pointe, Florida.