MANZIERI ART » art covers

My Artwork Eligible for 2021 Awards

Maurizio Manzieri — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 12:27:03 +0000

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.)

————–

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.)

————–

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.)

————–

My Artwork Eligible for 2018 Awards

Maurizio Manzieri — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 10:45:15 +0000

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Concept Art for “The Tea Master and The Detective” by Aliette de Bodard (Unpublished)

Studio for “Crimson Birds by Small Miracles” by Sean Monaghan (Unpublished)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)

The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard

Maurizio Manzieri — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:12:44 +0000

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

Manzieri Cover Story 2 | Pictures from an Expedition

Maurizio Manzieri — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:57:46 +0000

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

Maurizio Manzieri — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:09:58 +0000

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

Art Cover for “Book of Iron” by Elizabeth Bear

Maurizio Manzieri — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:46:59 +0000

Here is my new cover for Elizabeth Bear, scheduled for publication on September 2013 by Subterranean Press!

New Art Cover for Elizabeth Bear incoming!

Maurizio Manzieri — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:16:00 +0000

Following the wonderful “Bone and Juwel Creatures” novella, my next cover for Elizabeth Bear will be: “The Book of Iron” by Subterranean Press (scheduled on September 2013)!