Jeremy Geddes is a
photo-realistic
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painter
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from Wellington, New Zealand. He is widely known for the Cosmonaut series of paintings, and has illustrated for
comic book
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covers, in collaboration with friend
. Geddes won the Spectrum Gold Award for his cover art for the comic, Doomed. His children's picture book, ''The Mystery of Eilean Mor'', was shortlisted for The Aurealis Awards, won the
Crichton Award, and was named as one of CBC Notable Books in 2006.
Geddes is also a
gaming
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enthusiast. He worked for the video games company Torus Games in the early 2000s, creating art for memorable title like Duke Nukem for the Gameboy Colo
Game Credits.
References
Living people
Australian painters
Australian children's book illustrators
Year of birth missing (living people)
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