Charles Keegan

Charles Keegan has painted covers for Tor, Meisha Marlin, Baen Books, and Del Rey as well as poster and card art for AEG's "Doomtown" card game, and drawn interior work for Larry Elmore's Sovereign Stone roleplaying game manuals. Among his recent projects have been paintings for works by Poul Anderson, and for Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series (both published by Tor), as well as interior work for Meisha Merlin's limited edition publication of George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. This past summer Charles expanded his line of prints to include selections from these works. Upcoming projects for Tor include cover paintings for Fire Logic by Laurie Marks and Tides of Darkness by Judith Tarr.

His paintings have been accepted into Spectrum: the Best in Contemporary Fantastic Artfor the last four years running; the most recent edition of Spectrum includes "Held by Honor,'" a piece which won Best in Show at this past year's World Fantasy Convention in Corpus Christi, Texas. Charles received a Judges Choice Award at the 1998 World Con Art Show and has been twice nominated for a Chesley Award.

As a youth, Charles was stronly influenced by Edger Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard. Years of martial arts training, fencing, modern dance, and SCA fighting have given him an understanding of physical activity that can't be gained on the drawing board. In January 1997 Charles appeared fighting with live steel in the Discovery Channel documentary Deadly Duels: Duelds of Chivalry with internationally recognized edged-weapons expert Hank Reinhardt.

Trained at the National Academy of Design and Art Students League of New York, he lives in Atlanta with his wife, Heather.

For more information, visit Keegan's website at http://www.keeganprints.com.