The 2013 John Picacio Calendar

 Hugo Award-winning and Chesley Award-winning artist John Picacio has just announced a Kickstarter project for a 2013 calendar featuring twelve of his fantastic illustrations. This is the first project from his new company, Lone Boy, and a very exciting one. The full-color 12” x 12” 2013 wall calendar collects twelve of John's personal favorite book cover artworks from his career to date. The calendar’s cover will be printed on 12 pt. premium paper stock, with a satin aqueous-coated finish, and the interior pages will be printed on 100# text. The interior image area will be a larger-than-normal 12” x 16”. Depending on your pledge, you could get your own copy of the calendar, signed archival prints, process drawings, your name printed on a full run of the calendars, and/or the opportunity to model for an upcoming published science fiction/fantasy artwork by the artist.

Here is John's pitch for the project:



And here is the calendar's artwork by month:

1. JANUARY: Fast Forward 2 edited by Lou Anders (Pyr)
2. FEBRUARY: Muse Of Fire by Dan Simmons (Subterranean)
3. MARCH: Elric: Sword And Roses by Michael Moorcock (Random House/Del Rey)
4. APRIL: Age Of Misrule: World’s End by Mark Chadbourn (Pyr)
5. MAY: Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Subterranean)
6. JUNE: A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (HarperCollins/Eos)
7. JULY: The Creative Fire by Brenda Cooper (Pyr)
8. AUGUST: Gateway by Frederick Pohl (Random House/Del Rey)
9. SEPTEMBER: The 13th Reality: The Journal Of Curious Letters by James Dashner (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin)
10. OCTOBER: Memoranda by Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon Press)
11. NOVEMBER: Drood by Dan Simmons (Subterranean Press)
12. DECEMBER: Away From Here (Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2009)

What are you waiting for? Pledge!