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!

John Picacio's GRRM Calendar

George RR Martin has posted a (possibly not final) image of the cover of the 2011 and 2012 A Song of Ice and Fire Calendars. Ted Nasmith is the illustrator of 2011 and John Picacio of 2012. Both look amazing, but I'm particularly excited by the Picacio. George says, "This may not actually be the final cover, but it should give you a good taste of the spectacular work that John is doing. He tells me he's determined to make this calendar the best work he's ever done." Excited.