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.)

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

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

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

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