CHARLES VESS’s award-winning work has graced the pages of numerous comic book publishers and has been featured in several gallery and museum exhibitions across the nation, including the first major exhibition of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art (New Britain Museum of American Art, 1980). In 1991, Charles shared the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story with Neil Gaiman for their collaboration on Sandman #19 (DC Comics) — the first and only time a comic book has held this honor. More recently, they have collaborated on the picture book Blueberry Girl.
In the summer of 1997, Vess won the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for best penciler/inker for his work on The Book of Ballads and Sagas (since published as a hardcover collection) as well as Sandman #75. In 1999, he received the World Fantasy Award for Best Artist for his work on Neil Gaiman’s Stardust.
He worked with Jeff Smith on Rose, the prequel to Smith’s Bone; his collaborations with his friend Charles de Lint include the picture book A Circle of Cats and the illustrated novels Seven Wild Sisters and Medicine Road. His other work includes the illustrations for Emma Bull’s adaptation of the traditional English ballad “The Black Fox” in the anthology Firebirds, and the cover and decorations for Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, The Faery Reeclass="underline" Tales from the Twilight Realm, and The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales.
His Web site address is www.greenmanpress.com.
“Island Lake” copyright © E. Catherine Tobler, 2010
“The Puma’s Daughter” copyright © Tanith Lee, 2010
“Map of Seventeen” copyright © Christopher Barzak, 2010
“The Selkie Speaks” copyright © Delia Sherman, 2010
“Bear’s Bride” copyright © Johanna Sinisalo, 1991; English translation by Liisa Rantalaiho, 2010. Originally published in Finnish as “Metsän Tutu” in Aikakone, No. 3, 1991.
“The Abominable Child’s Tale” copyright © Carol Emshwiller, 2010
“The Hikikomori” copyright © Hiromi Goto, 2010
“The Comeuppance of Creegus Maxin” copyright © Gregory Frost, 2010
“Ganesha” copyright © Jeffrey Ford, 2010
“The Elephant’s Bride” copyright © Jane Yolen, 2010
“The Children of Cadmus” copyright © Ellen Kushner, 2010
“The White Doe Mourns Her Childhood,” “The White Doe’s Love Song,” “The White Doe Decides” copyright © Jeannine Hall Gailey, 2010
“Coyote and Valorosa” copyright © Terra L. Gearhart-Serna, 2010
“One Thin Dime” copyright © Stewart Moore, 2010
“The Monkey Bride” copyright © Midori Snyder, 2010
“Pishaach” copyright © Shweta Narayan, 2010
“The Salamander Fire” copyright © Marly Youmans, 2010
“The Margay’s Children” copyright © Richard Bowes, 2010
“Thimbleriggery and Fledglings” copyright © Steve Berman, 2010
“The Flock” copyright © Lucius Shepard, 2010
“The Children of the Shark God” copyright © Avicenna Development Corporation, 2010
“Rosina” copyright © Nan Fry, 2010