Whelan continued school as a pre-medical biology major at San José State University, initially. There he began formal training in art, taking summer classes at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design when he was 15. and sometimes blow up." īy the time he was a sophomore in high school, his family had moved to Denver, Colorado. It was always thrilling to watch them go up . Whelan's time near White Sands and Vandenberg Air Force Base proved a lasting influence in a 2000 interview, he noted that "living near to missile launching sites and Air Force bases had an impact. He grew up in Colorado, several cities along the California coast, and in New Mexico, near the White Sands Missile Range. So he attended eight elementary schools, three junior high schools and four high schools, and often lived for a summer in other locations. As a child, he had a nomadic existence, moving nearly every other year, as the family followed his father's career in the aerospace industry. Michael Whelan was born in Culver City, California, the son of William and Nancy Whelan. In 2009, he painted the cover art for thrash metal band Evile's album Infected Nations. He painted original works for the covers of Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell and The Very Best of Meat Loaf albums and several of his older paintings illustrate the liner notes of the former. and Roots Soulfly's Dark Ages Obituary's Cause of Death and every album by the Elric-influenced metal band Cirith Ungol. Ĭover art by Michael Whelan has graced many music record albums including Demolition Hammer's Epidemic of Violence, The Jacksons' Victory Sepultura's Beneath the Remains, Arise, Chaos A.D. Whelan provided covers and interior illustrations for Stephen King's The Gunslinger and The Dark Tower, the first and last of his Dark Tower books. Beam Piper's Fuzzy novels, and Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Otherland, and Shadowmarch series and Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive. Heinlein's novels including Friday and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the Ace editions of H. Lovecraft's short story collections, the Grand Master edition of Ray Bradbury's fix-up novel The Martian Chronicles, DAW editions of Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné books, numerous DAW editions of C. His paintings have appeared on the covers of more than 350 books and magazines, including many Stephen King novels, most of the Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, the Del Rey edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars series, Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star series, the Del Rey editions of H. His work was a dominant force in the transition of genre book covers away from the surrealism introduced in the 1950s and 1960s back to realism. Michael Whelan is one of the most important contemporary science fiction and fantasy artists, and certainly the most popular. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Whelan in June 2009, the first living artist so honored. Since the mid-1990s, he has pursued a fine art career, selling non-commissioned paintings through galleries in the United States and through his website. For more than 30 years, he worked as an illustrator, specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Michael Whelan (born 29 June 1950) is an American artist of imaginative realism.
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