GAUGHAN, Jack

   Working name of US illustrator John Brian Francis Gaughan (1930-1985). JG made his first professional sale while still in school at the Dayton Art Institute; he went full-time in the mid-1950s. Prolific in both covers andinterior art, he was most closely associated with GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION, for which he was Art Editor 1969-72 and painted 38 covers over the years; he also did 29 covers for If, 11 covers for FSF, 7 for IASFM and others for many other magazines. But, although his cover work was more than competent, it was his spare, often nearly abstract black-and-white interior ILLUSTRATIONS that dominated the field in the 1960s. He worked for paperback and hardcover book publishers, too, most notably ACE BOOKS. Famous for his generosity in donating artwork to FANZINES, he is the onlyillustrator to have won HUGOS for both Best Fan Artist and Best Professional Artist in the same year (1967); he won the ProfessionalArtist award again in 1968 and 1969. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s his work became less in demand and he was in increasingly poor health, as a result producing very little sf work.

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   See also: ASTOUNDING SCIENCE-FICTION.