Niteblade News

What is Cerberus, Inc.? Cerberus, Inc. happens to be the alter-ego of
the prolific artist Dan Skinner. At one time or another, Dan has worked
for practically every publisher of every genre under the sun. His art
has appeared on a plethora of magazine and book covers, including covers
for Baen Books, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Allegory
Magazine, and Zumaya Publications.

What is Dan's favourite medium? Being a versatile artist, Dan can just
about do it all. He says his medium is "kitchen sink".

What best describes Dan's commitment to art? Well, since he claims that
an internet search of his name will not find his high school history or
superfluous vacation pictures, but will pull up loads of art, I guess
you could say that Dan lives and breaths art.

And I think it shows in his work.

More examples of Dan's artwork can be seen at his on-line gallery:
http://cerberusinc.deviantart.com/gallery/

In this installment of the Niteblade Art Blog, I want to subject all of you innocent art lovers out there to the pencilled mayhem of the fantasy artist Shane Lees. Shane often combines fantasy imagery with a bit of science-fiction to whisk viewers away to another place and time. He shows us dark and dangerous worlds in which cyborgs duke it out beneath strange moons, where doughty warriors stand guard beside weird idols and clash within castle halls.

Shane grew up in Tacoma, Washington. The art bug first bit him at the age of twelve, when he created his first poster-sized fantasy illustration. He earned a  B.F.A. in Graphic Illustration from the Art Institute of Tacoma, Washington, and has won several art competitions. Among his various credits, he has been commissioned to illustrate gaming cards for the on-line roll playing game Dark Confrontation by Hand Made Games, and book covers for Dreamspinner Press.

Shane composes most of his drawings using nothing more than a plain old number two pencil. On occasion, he also uses a 9B and charcoal. Being the odd man out, “The Faceless” was drawn using pen instead of pencil. All of Shane’s art reflects his deep fondness for the fantasy and science-fiction genres. He loves to express his desire to look up in the sky and dream.

Don’t we all?

Shane’s bio, full list of credits and achievements, and on-line portfolio containing more examples of his artwork can be found here:
http://einherjarstudio.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post_1699.html

The art blogger position has been filled. I’d like to thank everyone who applied, every applicant was completely qualified for the position and it was not an easy choice for me to make. In the end, however, I had to chose someone and that someone is Richard H. Fay.

I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Richard a little bit over the past year as he submitted several poems to Niteblade, a couple of which were published. He’s a very prolific poet and a talented artist in his own right. I have no doubt he will be an awesome art blogger and that Niteblade will be better for his addition.

Welcome Richard! I look forward to working together with you in the months to come

There’s a position opening up on Niteblade for an art blogger. This is not a paid position, hell, I don’t even have a paid position LOL

A lot of talented artists send me their work and offer to illustrate Niteblade or do our covers. Most of them are primarily looking for exposure for their work and I feel terrible turning them away but I do. Over the first four issues of Niteblade I expiriemented with using more than one artist, or even using stock photography, to illustrate the stories and it didn’t work for me. I love Marge’s work and the cohesiveness that comes from having only one artist working on Niteblade. However, that doesn’t stop me from wanting to do something to help expose those other talented artists to our readers.

So I came up with a plan. An art blogger. The blogger will have an email address at Niteblade through which they will take submissions and then they will make posts on this blog (once a month, more if submissions warrant) which showcase one individual and their work.

If Niteblade ever begins to generate a profit this could turn into a paid position, but for the time being it is strictly voluntary. You’ll be rewarded with um…fame…and…um…fame. And you’ll know that you’re helping show off the work of some very talented artists.

If you’re interested or have any questions please email rhonda@niteblade.com. If you’re interested in the position please include samples of your writing — blog posts would be ideal.

Thank you.

The results are in for the Preditors and Editors poll and we have quite a bit to celebrate Niteblade placed in the top ten in two separate categories and it’s all thanks to you.

Marge Simon placed 6th in the Magazine Art category for her cover for the December issue of Niteblade and Niteblade is sharing 10th place in the Poetry Publication results.

Not too shabby for a fledgling magazine, eh?*

*I’m Canadian, I’m allowed, no, required, to say eh