MANZIERI ART » Covers https://www.manzieri.com The Fantastic Art of Maurizio Manzieri Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:35:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard https://www.manzieri.com/the-tea-master-and-the-detective-by-aliette-de-bodard/ https://www.manzieri.com/the-tea-master-and-the-detective-by-aliette-de-bodard/#comments Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:12:44 +0000 https://www.manzieri.com/?p=20148 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).

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The final illustration selected as the front cover

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The Cover Design

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]]> https://www.manzieri.com/the-tea-master-and-the-detective-by-aliette-de-bodard/feed/ 0 Artwork selected for IBA 6 https://www.manzieri.com/artwork-selected-for-iba-6/ https://www.manzieri.com/artwork-selected-for-iba-6/#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2018 18:08:34 +0000 https://www.manzieri.com/?p=20131 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.

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]]> https://www.manzieri.com/artwork-selected-for-iba-6/feed/ 0 Manzieri Cover Story 2 | Pictures from an Expedition https://www.manzieri.com/manzieri-cover-story-2-pictures-from-an-expedition/ https://www.manzieri.com/manzieri-cover-story-2-pictures-from-an-expedition/#comments Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:57:46 +0000 https://www.manzieri.com/?p=20098 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).

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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.

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Link to the Portfolio Page in this website here

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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:

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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:

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Main links in the article:

Delos 100
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Alexander C. Irvine
SPECTRUM

]]> https://www.manzieri.com/manzieri-cover-story-2-pictures-from-an-expedition/feed/ 0 Manzieri Cover Story 1 | Paradises Lost https://www.manzieri.com/manzieri-cover-story-1-paradises-lost/ https://www.manzieri.com/manzieri-cover-story-1-paradises-lost/#comments Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:09:58 +0000 https://www.manzieri.com/?p=20019 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).

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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!

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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

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]]> https://www.manzieri.com/analog-science-fact-janfeb-2016/feed/ 2 Asimov’s SF magazine Oct/Nov 2015 https://www.manzieri.com/asimovs-sf-magazine-octnov-2015/ https://www.manzieri.com/asimovs-sf-magazine-octnov-2015/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2015 08:12:27 +0000 https://www.manzieri.com/?p=19748 Asimov_Bodard_website

Original illustration commissioned by ASF for “The Citadel of Weeping Pearls” by Aliette de Bodard

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]]> https://www.manzieri.com/asimovs-sf-magazine-octnov-2015/feed/ 0 My Artwork Eligible for 2015 Awards https://www.manzieri.com/my-artwork-eligible-for-2015-awards/ https://www.manzieri.com/my-artwork-eligible-for-2015-awards/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:26:06 +0000 https://www.manzieri.com/?p=1554 Here is a selected List of 2014 eligible artwork for 2015 Awards

Category EBOOK/AUDIOBOOK: “The Year’s Top Short SF Novels 4″, edited by Allan Kaster (Audiobook/e-book by Infinivox/AudioText, November 2014, USA). Link: Amazon

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Original Illustration titled: “The Monster with No Name”. Medium: Digital. Artwork selected for “Infected by Art” Vol. 3

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“The Year’s Top Short SF Novels 4″ – ebook version

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“The Year’s Top Short SF Novels 4″ – audiobook version

 

Category: MAGAZINE: Cover Art for Asimov’s SF Magazine (June 2014)

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Artwork Selected for SPECTRUM 20, Underwood Books, and INFECTED BY ART Vol. 2 / “Paradises Lost” (Paradisi Perduti) by Ursula K. Le Guin, Delos Books, Italy, 2013

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Category: MAGAZINE: Cover Art for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (July/August 2014)

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Original Illustration inspired to the story: “Palm Strike’s Last Case” by Charlie Jane Anders. Medium: digital

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“Palm Strike’s Last Case” by Charlie Jane Anders (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2014)

Category: MAGAZINE/ADVERTISING: Magazine of Digital Art “Imagine FX”, Italian Edition / Official Poster for the Festival Lucca Comics & Games 2014

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Official Poster for the Festival Lucca Comics & Games 2014: “When a UFO landed in Lucca”

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ImagineFX by Wyrd Edizioni (Italian Edition), magazine of Digital Art

 

COVER ILLUSTRATION: “The Man Who Loved Kites” by Dean Whitlock. (Boatman Press LLC, 2014). Ebook: Amazon

 

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Original Illustration inspired to the story “The Man Who Loved Kites” by Dean Whitlock.

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“The Man Who Loved Kites” by Dean Whitlock (Boatman Press LLC, 2014)

 

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]]> https://www.manzieri.com/art-cover-for-book-of-iron-by-elizabeth-bear/feed/ 0 Revealed my Cover Art for F&SF (March/April 2013)! https://www.manzieri.com/revealed-my-cover-art-for-fsf-marchapril-2013/ https://www.manzieri.com/revealed-my-cover-art-for-fsf-marchapril-2013/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:52:18 +0000 https://www.manzieri.com/?p=1097 Just announced my cover art for the original story “What the Red Oaks Knew” by Elizabeth Bourne and Mark Bourne included in the March/April 2013 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction!

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