Author Archives: Maurizio Manzieri
My 2024 Artwork Eligible for Awards
Welcome to a selected portfolio about professional Art published in 2024! All these artwork are eligible for the 2025 Awards season… thanks for your consideration! (For the Credits, please read the captions under each image) “The Ghost of Mars” by Dominica Phetteplace (The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories #8, Infinivox, 2024) “Burning Grannies” […]
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My Artwork Eligible for 2023 Awards
Welcome to a selected portfolio about professional Art published in 2022! All these artwork are eligible for the 2023 Awards season… thanks for your consideration! (For the Credits, please read the captions under each image) PAPERBACK COVER – “Mulberry and Owl” by Aliette de Bodard • Cover Art for “The Year’s Top Tales of Space […]
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My Artwork Eligible for 2022 Awards
Welcome to a selected portfolio about professional Art published in 2021! All these artwork are eligible for the 2022 Awards season… thanks for your consideration! (For the Credits, please read the captions under each image) PRODUCT COVER – ‘The European Stargate’ • Official POSTER illustration for EUROCON 2021 • July 2021 • Media: Digital. (Art […]
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2021 WorldCon Schedule (DisCon III)
I’ll be attending Discon III, the 2021 Worldcon in DC (December 15-19). You’ll find me on the program at the following events: Imaginative Realism – Maurizio Manzieri Wed 5:30-6:20 PM, Palladian Ballroom Kaffeeklatsch – Maurizio Manzieri Wed 8:30-9:20 PM, Suite 325 Dining Room Let’s Judge a Book by His Cover Thu 2:30 PM -3:30 PM, […]
Categories: Business • Tags: Hugo Award, WorldCon
My Artwork Eligible for 2021 Awards
Welcome to a selected portfolio about professional Art published in 2020! All these artwork are eligible for the 2021 Awards season… thanks for your consideration! (For the Credits, please read the captions under each image). Note: Larger versions of these illustrations are available in the Portfolio Section of the website. HARDBACK COVER – ‘Seven of […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: art covers, cover art
My Artwork Eligible for 2020 Awards
Welcome to a selected portfolio about professional Art published in 2019! All these artwork are eligible for the 2020 Awards season… thanks for your consideration! (For the Credits, please read the captions under each image) HARDBACK COVER – ‘Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight’ • Cover Illustration for a story collection by Aliette de Bodard […]
Categories: Art
My Artwork Eligible for 2018 Awards
Godspeed to everybody! Here is a selected portfolio about Art published/produced in 2017… enjoy the visit!
Categories: Art Review, Uncategorized • Tags: art covers, Art review, cover art, illustration
2017 Christmas Card
The illustration “Child on Dragon” realized before Christmas as a greeting card for my clients. Unpublished, 2017.
Categories: Fantasy
The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard
Here is The Tea Master and the Detective, my latest illustration for Subterranean Press (link) inspired to a Xuya-Universe-novella by the formidable Aliette de Bodard, coming out as a deluxe Limited Edition on March 2018! (Note: the artwork was created in 2017).
Categories: Covers, Illustrations: color, Sci-fi • Tags: art covers, cover art, de Bodard, Xuya
Artwork selected for IBA 6
WOW! Thrilled to find out that my illustration STARLIGHT EXPRESS (cover art for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sep/Oct 2017) has been selected for Infected by Art‘s Volume #6! Thanks to the author: Michael Swanwick, publisher: Gordon Van Gelder, editor: Charles Coleman Finlay). I’ve been winning a placement in this series since Volume […]
Categories: Covers, News, Sci-fi, Uncategorized
Manzieri Cover Story 2 | Pictures from an Expedition
This illustration inspired to the story “Pictures from an Expedition” by Alexander C. Irvine was originally published as a cover art for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (September 2003). The subsequent year the artwork gained a full page in the annual SPECTRUM (11), the Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. You find here the […]
Categories: Covers • Tags: art covers, cover art
Manzieri Cover Story 1 | Paradises Lost
I’ve been often thinking that I should realize a series of illustrations featuring angels! What do you think? I love this topic linking astronauts to angels and I’ve seen artists I love producing similar strong images (Jeremy Geddes, just for an example)… This has been one of my most acclaimed covers: PARADISES LOST (2013), originally […]
Categories: Covers • Tags: art covers, cover art
“Starlight Express” by Michael Swanwick (F&SF, Sep/Oct 2017)
This was one of the best commissions to date! Fantasy & Science Fiction contacted me saying: “We have a story that seems like it’s meant for a Maurizio Manzieri cover!”: I accepted immediately of course and here you can see the result for the lovely story “Starlight Express” by Michael Swanwick. The author dedicated an […]
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2017 Fantasy Basel Guest of Honor!
I’m Guest of Honor for Fantasy Basel 2017, the Swiss Comic Con! You find me in Halle 2.2, Stand #568. Do not miss my panel on April 30, at 12pm, Podium 1, Messe Basel, titled: “Recipes for the Creation of a Fantastic Universe”.
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Artwork selected for IBA5
Beginning the year with gooood news…! My artwork The Sassari Spaceport has been selected for inclusion in the volume INFECTED BY ART #5 (Hermes Press). So honored! Link: http://www.infectedbyart.com/iba5artist.asp?gid=8512
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My Artwork Eligible for 2017 Awards
Hi dear friends, another year spent with the Art in the Heart! Here we go with my annual parade of eligible illustrations for competitions and 2017 international Awards (finished or published in 2016)! Take a glance to all the covers and posters, then sliding down you’ll find the images without the design… Enjoy! 1) Cover […]
Categories: Art Review • Tags: Art review, cover art
Sassari Comics and Games 2016: Guest of Honor!
I’m very honored to announce my presence as a Guest of Honor at Sassari Comics and Games 2016. Here is the illustration realized for the official Poster of the Festival!
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2016 Italia Award Finalist
Wow, tight period, dear followers! Glad to announce that I’m a 2016 Italia Award Finalist for the Cover Art “Quel che Resta della Kronos” by Claudio Chillemi (Edizioni della Vigna)! Here the Italian Press Release with all the Finalists: http://www.fantascienza.com/21075/premio-italia-2016-record-di-votanti-ecco-i-finalisti
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New Print on Sale: “Alpha and Omega” by Patricia Briggs
If you are followers of this blog, you are the first ones to know! A new coveted print “Alpha and Omega” by Patricia Briggs (published in 2009 by Subterranean Press in Usa and in 2010 by Bragelonne in France) has been made available at my INPRNT SHOP. They are all gallery-quality giclée art prints on […]
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INPRNT Shop Opening
Hi, friends! I'm glad to announce - finally - the opening of an international distribution of gallery-quality art prints through INPRNT. Here is the link to my Shop: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/maurizio.manzieri/
Categories: Fantasy, Illustrations: color, Prints • Tags: darkestpowers, Fantasy, illustration, kelleyarmstrong, urbanfantasy, werewolf