SHAW, Barclay

(1949-)

   US illustrator; attended the New England School of Art and Design. BS's earliest magazine cover was for FSF in 1979 (followed by 8 more in the next two years); also in 1979 he did one for CINEFANTASTIQUE. By 1980 he was doing book covers; and in 1982 a series of reissues ofHarlan ELLISON books, with covers by BS at Ellison's request, began to appear. Another interesting series of covers was for some of the Robert A. HEINLEIN reissues of the late 1980s. BS's ILLUSTRATION, indebted toEuropean Surrealists and painters of the grotesque, is sophisticated: often surreal and sometimes a touch decadent, typically shadowy with some areas or objects glowing.

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