Steamcon is proud to announce that
Gary Gianni will be our Artist Guest of Honor!
Gary Gianni is an illustrator and author whose work has appeared in numerous books, text books, magazines, comics and newspapers. He began his career at the Chicago Tribune newspaper and worked as a television courtroom artist most notably chronicling the John Gacy murder trials. Later as a comic book artist, he drew characters such as the Shadow, Indiana Jones, Batman and Tom Strong. He also wrote and drew his own popular comic book series
The Monstermen. Aside from writing for comics, Gianni has authored two books,
John Henry and
The Prince Valiant Page.
The numerous books illustrated by the artist include classic works by Melville, Verne, Wells, Stevenson, Burroughs and O’Henry. Among contemporary authors, Gianni has created drawings for the works of Ray Bradbury, Michael Moorcock and Michael Chabon. One of his most significant projects involved six years of producing hundreds of drawings and paintings for a series of books by fantasy author Robert E. Howard.
Gianni has received the Eisner Award for his work on Batman with writer Archie Goodwin and The Spectrum Award for his book illustrations from the The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane.
In 2004, The venerable comic strip artist John Cullen Murphy retired and asked Gianni to take up the artistic chores on the celebrated newspaper adventure comic strip Prince Valiant.
Gary Gianni is delighted to be attending Steamcon III:
“It took a year for me to illustrate a graphic novel edition of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. The idea of celebrating the theme of 19th century romance , machinery and fantasy adventure with like -minded people is a party I don’t want to miss!”
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