{"id":499,"date":"2007-04-06T22:23:44","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T06:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=499"},"modified":"2016-10-12T09:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T16:00:25","slug":"cover-artist-feature-michael-whelan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/cover-artist-feature-michael-whelan","title":{"rendered":"Cover Artist Feature – Michael Whelan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I wrote about how important book covers are to me<\/a>, and this week’s featured artist is Michael Whelan. If you’ve read with any depth in the science fiction\/fantasy genre then you probably already know his work. From Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series to Michael Moorcock’s Elric series, Michael Whelan has been illustrating fantasy novels for over twenty-four years. He has won the Hugo award an amazing fourteen times.<\/p>\n

The biography on his official website<\/a> includes Whelan’s artistic statement which, interestingly enough, is a quote by renowned Catholic author G.K. Chesterton:<\/p>\n

“The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Michael Whelan certainly lives up to that statement. I love his attention to detail and use of rich colors. My favorite of his covers are from Tad Williams’ Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy:<\/p>\n

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The Dragonbone Chair<\/p><\/div>\n

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Stone of Farewell<\/p><\/div>\n

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To Green Angel Tower<\/p><\/div>\n

You can <\/span>see more of his work in the book The Art of Michael Whelan<\/span><\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I wrote about how important book covers are to me, and this week’s featured artist is Michael Whelan. If you’ve read with any depth in the science fiction\/fantasy genre then you probably already know his work. From Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series to Michael Moorcock’s Elric series, Michael Whelan has been illustrating fantasy novels for over twenty-four years. He has won the Hugo award an amazing fourteen times. The biography on his official website includes Whelan’s artistic statement which, interestingly enough, is a quote by renowned Catholic author...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[237,5],"tags":[248,246,78,247],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-books","tag-book-covers","tag-michael-whelan","tag-reviews","tag-tad-williams"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/To-Green-Angel-Tower.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-83","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4063,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/4063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}