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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” by Rory Harper (Asimov’s Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2024)
“In the Shadow of the Ship” by Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Press, 2024)
“3 Hard Shots at the Moon” (Infinivox. 2024). Publication Date: March 2025
“Schemes & Scandals” by Kelley Armstrong (Subterranean Press, 2024)
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 and Time #2″, edited by Allan Kaster • Client: INFINIVOX • Media: Digital. (Art © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)
MAGAZINE COVER – ‘Falling Off the Edge of the World’ • Cover Illustration for a story by Suzanne Palmer • Client: Asimov’s SF Magazine/Penny Publications • November/December 2022 • Art Director: Charlie Iwanicki • Media: Digital. (Art © 2022 Maurizio Manzieri.)
MAGAZINE COVER – ‘Sacred Cow’ • Cover Illustration for a story by Larry Niven & Steven Barnes • Client: Analog Science & Fact/Penny Publications • November/December 2022 • Art Director: Carly Iwanicki • Media: Digital. (Art © 2022 Maurizio Manzieri.)
PAPERBACK COVER – “The Egg Collectors” by Lavie Tidhar • Cover Art for “The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction #6″, edited by Allan Kaster • Client: INFINIVOX • Media: Digital. (Art © 2022 Maurizio Manzieri.)
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 © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)
MAGAZINE COVER – ‘Broad Dutty Eater: A Sunken Story’ • Cover Illustration for a story by Nalo Hopkinson • Client: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction • November/December 2021 • Art Director: Gordon Van Gelder • Media: Digital. (Art © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)
MAGAZINE COVER – ‘Hanai’ • Cover Illustration for a story by Greg Bossert • Client: Asimov’s SF Magazine/Penny Publications • November/December 2021 • Art Director: Charlie Iwanicki • Media: Digital. (Art © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)
MAGAZINE COVER – ‘Flash Mob’ • Cover Illustration for a story by Meg Pontecorvo • Client: Analog Science & Fact/Penny Publications • March/April 2021 • Art Director: Carly Iwanicki • Media: Digital. (Art © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)
PAPERBACK COVER – ‘The Bell Cannon Affair’ • Cover Illustration inspired to a novel by Dean Whitlock • Client: Boatman Press • May 2021 • Media: Digital. (Art and Cover Design © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)
HARDBACK COVER – ‘L’Assiro’ (The Assyrian) • Cover Illustration inspired to a novel by Nicholas Guild • Client: Fanucci Edizioni • May 2021 • Art Director: Franca Vitali • Media: Digital. (Art © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)
PAPERBACK COVER – ‘La Traditrice del Silenzio’ • Cover Illustration inspired to a novel by Rebexcca Moro • Client: Rebecca Moro • May 2021 • Media: Digital. (Art © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)
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, Calvert Room
Art Show Reception
Thu 3:00-5:00 PM, Art Show
Public Hugo Finalists Reception
Thu 5:00-7:00 PM, Ambassador Ballroom
Building Starships with a Digital Brush – Maurizio Manzieri
Fri 4:00-5:00 PM, Presidential Board Room
Stroll with the Stars – Maurizio Manzieri
Sat 9:00 AM -10:00 AM, Hotel Lobby
Hugo Award Ceremony
Sat 8:00-10:30 PM, Regency Ballroom
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 Infinities’ • Cover Illustration inspired to a novella by Aliette de Bodard • Client: Subterranean Press • October 2020 • Art Director: Yanni Kuznia • Media: Digital. (Art © 2020 Maurizio Manzieri.)
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MAGAZINE COVER – ‘The Ossuary’s Passenger’ • Cover Illustration for a story by Robert Reed • Client: Asimov’s SF Magazine/Penny Publications • September/October 2020 • Art Director: Victoria Green • Media: Digital. (Art © 2020 Maurizio Manzieri.)
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MAGAZINE COVER – ‘Who Carries the World’ • Cover Illustration for a story by Robert Reed • Client: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction • May/June 2020 • Art Director: Gordon Van Gelder • Media: Digital. (Art © 2020 Maurizio Manzieri.)
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PAPERBACK COVER – ‘The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book’ • Client: Infinivox • Art Director: Allan Kaster • Media: Digital. (Art © 2020 Maurizio Manzieri.)
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PAPERBACK COVER – ‘The 2020 Look at Mars Fiction Book’ • Client: Infinivox • Art Director: Allan Kaster • Media: Digital. (Art © 2020 Maurizio Manzieri.)
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 • Client: Subterranean Press • September 2019 • Art Director: Yanni Kuznia • Media: Digital. (Art © 2019 Maurizio Manzieri.)
MAGAZINE COVER – ‘Waterlines’ • Cover Illustration for a novella by Suzanne Palmer • Client: Asimovs’s SF Magazine/Penny Publications • July/August 2019 • Art Director: Victoria Green • Media: Digital. (Art © 2019 Maurizio Manzieri.)
PRODUCT COVER – ‘Helvetia’ • POSTER illustration for ZURICH GAME SHOW 2019. 3rd Edition • Client: Amazing Event AG • Art Directors: Martin Schörno/Flo Birrer • September 2019 • Media: Digital. (Art © 2019 Maurizio Manzieri.)
PRODUCT COVER – POSTER illustration for CARTOONS ON THE BAY 2019. 23rd Edition • Client: Rai Com • Art Director: Roberto Genovesi • April 2019 • Media: Digital. (Art by Maurizio Manzieri, Design by Designem – © Rai Com )
HARDBACK COVER – ‘Il Re Scorpione (The Scorpion King)’ • Cover Illustration for a novel by Valery Esperian • Client: Gruppo Editoriale Fanucci, Italy • (Art © 2019 Maurizio Manzieri.)
PAPERBACK COVER – ‘The Arrow Rune • Wraparound Cover Illustration for a novel by Dean Whitlock • Client: Boatman Press• (Art © 2019 Maurizio Manzieri.)
My Artwork Eligible for 2018 Awards
Godspeed to everybody! Here is a selected portfolio about Art published/produced in 2017… enjoy the visit!
Cover Art for ASIMOV’S SF #JAN/FEB 2017 inspired to the story “Crimson Birds of Small Miracles” by Sean Monaghan.
“Starlight Express” by Michael Swanwick (USA, F&SF, Sep/Oct 2017)
“The Prognosticant” by Matthew Hughes (USA, F&SF, May/Jun 2017)
“Finn’s Clock” by Dean Whitlock, Boatman Press
Concept Art for “The Tea Master and The Detective” by Aliette de Bodard (Unpublished)
Studio for “Crimson Birds by Small Miracles” by Sean Monaghan (Unpublished)
“Child on Dragon”, Christmas Card 2017
Illustration/Wallpaper: “Laniakea: The Absolute Colony” (crowdfunded project, 2017)
2017 Christmas Card
The illustration “Child on Dragon” realized before Christmas as a greeting card for my clients. Unpublished, 2017.
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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).
The final illustration selected as the front cover
The Cover Design
Alternative Cover Art
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 #2…this should mean something, shouldn’t it? You can find the illustration in the Website Portfolio or in my Artstation Page.
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 original b&w sketch that I sent to the publisher Gordon Van Gelder (together with other proposals and a few notes about details inside the pic and alternative versions).
Below there are the finish for the magazine and the final version with the cover design. Now everything happens via web, but at that time I was used to send a CD-ROM including the image. Everything in the shipment was personalized with the CD-ROM displaying a printed round color label glued to the surface. The story described the first expedition to Mars with an anchorwoman accompanying the NASA crew for some reality show in space, going nuts and trying to sabotage the mission.
Link to the Portfolio Page in this website here
In 2004 the Australian magazine DESIGN GRAPHICS dedicated a issue to Yours Truly, with my astronaut on the front cover plus an extended Portfolio and interview inside:
In 2007 the Italian magazine DELOS edited by Silvio Sosio (Delos Books) celebrated its 100th issue and on the occasion I was asked to create a landscape version of the illustration! Here is the result:
Main links in the article:
Delos 100
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Alexander C. Irvine
SPECTRUM
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 inspired to a wonderful novella by URSULA K. LE GUIN, included in her story collection THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD. The novella explores the isolation brought on by space travel, as well as themes of religion and utopia and got soon its own standalone edition in several languages. You can read more at the following link in order to better understand my stylistic choices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradises_Lost. The illustration was included in both the prestigious annuals SPECTRUM, the Best in Fantastic Contemporary Art, and INFECTED BY ART. It won the ASIMOV’S READERS’ AWARD (Best Cover Artist) and was selected as BEST DIGITAL ARTWORK IN THE SHOW at the 72nd WorldCon in London (2014).
Everthing started in 2013. Delos Books publisher Silvio Sosio called me with a cover gig for Ursula K. Le Guin, the first Italian edition of Paradises Lost (PARADISI PERDUTI) to be included in the Odissea series. WOW! I accepted immediately and the result is history… the writer published the news in her official website on January 27, 2013 (News Archives 2009-2014). The illustration took about a week of work from the pencil scratch on a restaurant napkin to the finish.
After the initial publication the illustration began to live its autonomous life and was optioned by Penny Publications for ASIMOV’S Science Fiction magazine as a cover art for their June 2014 issue (Art Director Victoria Green). Thanks to this artwork, unrelated to any story in that issue, I won the 2014 Readers’ Award as BEST 2014 COVER ARTIST! Still jumping thinking about this achievement… I’ve been loving the magazine since I was an undergraduate…
Another client falling in love with the illustration was Gardner Dozois, who selected my winged astronaut as a cover art for the prestigious thirty-second annual collection THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION and put me in touch with Macmillan for the transaction.
At that time I was a panelist at the 72nd WorldCon in London and while I was talking with my contact Ben Crystal at the publishing house… the illustration won the Award as Best Digital Artwork in the Show!
In December 2015 my Angel became a cover for “I LIKE 3D“, an interactive magazine published by the Italian iMasterArt Academy. The issue, edited by Simona Rossi and the fellow artist Joseph Eon Viglioglia, was dedicated my body of work and included the making-in-progress of the illustration and an extended interview! You can browse the issue in my Youtube Channel!
Main links in the article:
Asimov’s SF magazine
Delos Books
Ursula K. Le Guin
iMasterArt Academy
Youtube Channel: I LIKE 3D
“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 entry of his blog to the artwork: http://floggingbabel.blogspot.it/2017/08/starlight-express-by-maurizio-manzieri.html
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”.
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
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 Art for ASIMOV’S SF #JULY 2016 (selected in a different version for the volume INFECTED BY ART #4). Link
2) Cover Art for ASIMOV’S SF #JAN/FEB 2017 inspired to the story “Crimson Birds of Small Miracles” by Sean Monaghan (published in December 2016). Link
3) Cover Art for ANALOG SCIENCE & FACT #JANUARY 2016 (originally inspired to the story “Five Thrillers” by Robert Reed). Link
4) Cover art for The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction #8 edited by Allan Kaster (INFINIVOX/AudioText, 2016). Illustration Title: “Alien Outpost”. Link
5) Official Poster for the Swiss Comic Con FANTASY BASEL 2016. Link
6) “The Sassari Spaceport”
Official Poster for the Italian Convention SARDINIACON 2016. Link
Selected for inclusion in the volume INFECTED BY ART #5
7) Official Poster for the Italian Convention STRANIMONDI 2016. Link
8) Illustration inspired to the literary saga MONDO9 by the writer Dario Tonani (unpublished)
9) Cover Art for FIREBOY by Dean Whitlock. Illustration and Design by Maurizio Manzieri. (Boatman Press, ebook). Link
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!
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
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 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks. Click on the illustration to reach the shop:
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/
