Outer Aliance Spotlight #41: John Coulthart July 3, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : interviews , add a commentWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #41. Each week the Spotlight features an ally who writes, reviews, publishes, or is in some other way involved with LGBTQI speculative fiction. Our guest this week is artist John Coulthart.
John is a gay artist and writer based in Manchester, UK. He designs and illustrates books and comics as well as creating CD and DVD cover art, and original visual art. His Psychedelic Wonderland 2010 calendar was featured on Boing Boing, and inspired his cover art for Alan Moore’s Dodgem Logic #4. He has work on display as part of the A Love Craft exhibition at Observatory in Brooklyn, New York, which will be open until the 23rd of this month.
Though he doesn’t read as much science fiction as he used to, John feels indebted to the genre for giving him queer characters he could identinfy with as a teen. He’s an Outer Alliance member because of that, and because he believes LGBTQI visibility is important. John maintains a Twitter feed and blogs on his personal site.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #38: M. S. Corley June 11, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : interviews , 1 comment so farWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #38. Each Friday, the Spotlight features an ally who writes, reviews, publishes, or is in some other way involved with LGBTQI speculative fiction. Our guest this week is M. S. Corley, cover and interior artist for The Aether Age: Helios.
M. S. Corley is a straight ally who has been creating visual art since he was a small child. Back in the day, he spent a lot of time drawing pictures of characters from Mega Man, but more recently he created a bit of an internet splash with his series of retro Harry Potter book covers. Now he’s teamed up with Brandon Bell to work on Aether Age: Helios.
M. S. is a full time freelance artist, who enjoys reading–favorite authors include H. P. Lovecraft and William Hope Hodgson–and playing video games. He is currently working on some illustrations for Dungeons & Dragons Adventure books (among other things). He lives with his wife in Kirkland, Washington. He shares his artwork on his blog, Flickr, and deviantART.