Volume VIII
Available January/February 2015. Cover artist not yet announced.
Volume VII – Tatiana Marlee
Available October/November 2014. Cover art coming soon.
An Unlikely Companion – Brian Lewis
About the Cover Artist
BRIAN LEWIS is the president of the Empire & Great Jones Creative Arts Foundation, an active member of the Editorial Freelancers Association, an alumnus of the California State Summer School for the Arts in Creative Writing. Originally from California, he currently lives in Riverton, Utah, with his wife and eight children. By day, he works full-time as a Software Security Engineer for Concur Solutions, Inc.
An Unlikely Companion is a stand-alone project of Spark, and is planned for release by November, 2014. This is Brian’s first attempt at original cover art.
Learn more at sparkanthology.org/about.
Volume VI – Goodloe Byron
About the Cover Artist
GOODLOE BYRON is a bookist, songist, singist, drawist, and paintist. He learned how to draw by making book covers comics for such luminaries as Soft Skull Press, NYU Press, Black Mask and Doubleday. Much of his youthful energy was lost in a drawn out book adventure in which he left thousands of novels across the world. Since then he has made his home over top of a guitar shop in Frederick, MD.
This commissioned image is titled ‘The Interview’ and appears to be a frog interviewing a zebra for his television debut.
Volume V – Casey Robin
About the Cover Artist
CASEY ROBIN is an illustrator and story artist working in Southern California. Her clients include Walt Disney Animation Studios and Zondervan Publishing. She has studied at CalArts, Studio Art Centers International in Florence, The Illustration Academy at Ringling, and more.
Using paints, pencils, crayons, coffee, digital media, and anything else she can get her hands on, she has made pictures for print, film, and the Web. She finds inspiration in fairy tales, books, music, her family and friends, and her fat cat, Oliver.
Learn more at caseyrobin.com.
Volume IV – Paul Pederson
About the Cover Artist
PAUL PEDERSON is a fantasy and science-fiction illustrator and past winner of the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contest. His artwork has been paired with several print and digital novels by David Farland/Dave Wolverton and is featured on the cover of Raygun Chronicles (Every Day Publishing, 2013, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt). He has provided illustrations for each volume of Spark: A Creative Anthology, and this cover was specially commissioned for our speculative fiction issue.
Pederson was raised in St. Augustine, Florida (the oldest city in the United States). Art and history were prominent features in the small tourist town and this had a tremendous influence on him. After high school, he moved to Australia and spent two years learning Aboriginal culture and doing free-lance art. He currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Learn more at paulpederson.com
Volume III – Rodney Artiles
About the Cover Artist
RODNEY ARTILES is a painter from Oakland, California, whose artwork has been shown in galleries and exhibitions around the world.
Artiles is an alumnus of the California State Summer School for the Arts, Academie Minerva (Netherlands), and the California College of the Arts.
Learn more at rodneyartiles.com
Volume II
About the Cover Artist
CHARLES KING is a writer and photographer who breathes in Portland, Oregon. He is also an activist within Portland’s disabled community.
Volume I
About the Cover Artist
AARON JOHN GREGORY is an illustrator and cartoonist with a degree in illustration from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. He also studied at the legendary Kubert School in Dover, NJ—an industry boot-camp for illustrators and comic book artists. He owns and operates his own boutique clothing company, Cotton Crustacean, featuring his scientific illustrations of prehistoric marine life printed on premium American-made T-shirts.
Aaron is also the vocalist, guitarist, and founding member of the world-renowned progressive hard rock band Giant Squid. He’s currently finishing up his own self-published comic book, The Ichthyologist.
Learn more at aaronjohngregory.com.
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