Jill Bauman

Jill Bauman is an American artist. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award five times and nominated for the Chesley Award several times. Her art has been exhibited at the Delaware Art Museum, the Moore College of Art, Art Students League of New York, the NY Illustrators Society & and the Science Fiction Museum of Seattle. Bauman has created hundreds of book covers for horror, mystery, fantasy, science fiction, and best selling books including 23 of the ''Cat Who...'' books by Lilian Jackson Braun during the 1980s and 1990s.

Jill Bauman got her Bachelor of Arts from Adelphi University. She did her graduate work at Adelphi University and Queens College. She is a Life Member of the Art Students League of New York.

She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and she lives in Queens, New York and has two grown daughters.

Authors and magazines

Jill Bauman has illustrated the written works of many authors of horror, mystery, fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction, including J. G. Ballard, Clive Barker, Gregory Benford, Lilian Jackson Braun, David Brin, Orson Scott Card, John Crowley, Jack Dann, Harlan Ellison, Paul Di Filippo, Ray Garton, Jonathan Gash, Brian Keene, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Nancy Kress, Katherine Kurtz, Richard Laymon, Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft, Anne McCaffrey, Robert R. McCammon, Mike Resnick, Pamela Sargent, Dan Simmons, Peter Straub, Michael Swanwick, Chet Williamson, Jack Williamson, and Gene Wolfe.

She has done artwork for many magazines, including:
*''Amazing Stories''
*'' Cemetery Dance Magazine''
*'' Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine'' (she is included in their top 10 most used cover illustrators)
*''Flesh & Blood Magazine''
*''Future Magazine''
*'' Horror Express''
*''Inhuman Magazine''
*''Space & Time Magazine''
*'' Starlog Magazine''
*''Weird Tales''

Notable works

Covers

*''A Quiet Night of Fear'' by Charles L. Grant (Berkley Books, 1980)
*''Other Stories and... The Attack of the Giant Baby'' by Kit Reed (Berkley Books, 1981)
*''A Glow of Candles'' by Charles L. Grant (Berkley Books, 1981)
*''Carlisle Street'' by T. M. Wright (Tor Books, 1982).
*''The Practice Effect'' by David Brin ( Doubleday Book Club, 1984)
*''The Doll Who Ate His Mother'' by Ramsey Campbell (Tor Books, 1984)
*'' Melancholy Elephants'' by Spider Robinson (Tor Books, 1984)
* ''Cat Who…'' series of books by Lilian Jackson Braun. 23 covers from 1985 to 1996
*'' Song of Kali'' by Dan Simmons (Hardcover/ Bluejay Books, Paperback/Tor Books, 1985)
*'' A Stainless Steel Rat is Born'' by Harry Harrison ( Doubleday SF Book Club, 1985)
*''Nightshow'' by Richard Laymon (Tor Books, 1985)
*''The Judas Rose'' by Suzette Haden Elgin ( DAW Books, 1986)
*'' The Long Night of the Grave'' by Charles L. Grant ( Don Grant Books)
*''The Lost Heir (Sherlock Holmes Solo Mystery number 8)'' by Gerald Lientz (Iron Crown Publishing, 1988)
*'' Mort'' by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday Book Club, 1989).
*'' The Jewel in the Skull'' by Michael Moorcock (Ace Books, 1989)
*''The Magic Wagon'' by Joe R. Lansdale ( Borderlands Press, 1990).
*''Edgeworks I'' by Harlan Ellison ( White Wolf, 1995)
*'' Slippage'' by Harlan Ellison ( Mark V. Zeising Books, 1997)
*''The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes'' by Marvin Kaye (St. Martin's Press, 1997)
*''Parallelities'' by Alan Dean Foster ( Doubleday SF Book Club, 1998).
*''The View from Hell'' by John Shirley (Subterranean Press, 2000)
*'' Bottled in Blonde'' by Hugh B. Cave ( Fedogan & Bremer, 2000)
*''The Infernal Device and Others'' by Michael Kurland (St. Martin's Press, 2001)
*''Serpent Girl'' by Ray Garton ( Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006)
*''Mad Dogs' by Brian Hodge (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2007)
*''The Story of Noichi the Blind'' by Chet Williamson (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2007)
*''Kill Whitey'' by Brian Keene (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2008)
*''Poe'' by Stewart O'Nan ( Lonely Road Books, 2008)

Frontispieces and interior illustrations

*'' Deathbird Stories'' by Harlan Ellison ( Easton Press, 1989) - Frontispiece and five color interiors
*'' Maps in a Mirror'' by Orson Scott Card (Easton Press, 1990) - Frontispiece and one interior
*'' The Dead Zone'' by Stephen King (Easton Press, 1992) - Frontispiece and two color interiors
*'' The Dunwich Horror'' by H.P. Lovecraft (Easton Press, 1993) - Frontispiece and two interiors
*'' The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall'' by Anne McCaffrey (Easton Press, 1994) - Frontispiece
*'' Gather, Darkness'' by Fritz Leiber (Easton Press, 1996) - Frontispiece
*'' Gormenghast Trilogy'' by Mervyn Peake (Easton Press, 1997) - Frontispiece
*'' Dark Forces: The 25th Anniversary Edition'' edited by Kirby McCauley (Lonely Road Books, 2007) - Jill Bauman illustrated "The Bingo Master" by Joyce Carol Oates, "The Garden of Blackred Roses" by Charles L. Grant and "Children of the Kingdom" by T.E.D. Klein
*''A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P Lovecraft'' from Centipede Press, 2008 - Includes two illustrations by Jill Bauman
*'' The Passage'' by Justin Cronin ( Cemetery Dance Publications, 2010) - Interior greyscale illustrations

Trading cards and collectible card games

*''Fantasy Adventures'' by Mayfair Games
*''Cthulhu Mythos'' by Fantasy Flight Games

Poetry and short stories

Poems

*"Bedtime," from ''Silver Web'' magazine (Fall/Winter, 1993)
*"The Wanderer," from ''Worlds of Fantasy and Horror'' magazine #3 (Summer, 1996)
*"Black Ghost," from ''Weird Tales'' magazine #318 (Winter, 1999)
*"Inhuman," from ''Inhuman'' magazine #2
*"Nightlife," from ''Flesh & Blood'' magazine #11 (2003)
*"The Storm," from ''Space & Time'' magazine #97 (2003)
*"Dark," "Weaver of Dreams," and "The Empty House" from ''The Horror Express'' magazine #3 (Winter, 2004)
*"Oracle," from ''Weird Tales'' magazine, Volume 60, #4 (December, 2004)

Short stories

*"Mousenight", a short story (written with Alan M. Clark) from ''Bedtime Stories to Darken Your Dreams'' edited by Bruce Holland Rogers.

Guest of Honor appearances

*Artist Guest of Honor at the 1982 a
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Bristol, Rhode Island (program book included an interview with Jill Bauman)
*Artist Guest of Honor at the 1992 at the World Fantasy Convention (program book included an interview with Jill Bauman)
*Artist Guest of Honor at the 1990 I-Con, Stony Brook University, NY (program book included an interview with Jill Bauman)
*Artist Guest of Honor at the 1996 Albacon, Albany, New York (program book included an interview with Jill Bauman)
*Artist Guest of Honor at the 1999 Philcon, Philadelphia (program book included an interview with Jill Bauman)
*Artist Guest of Honor at the 2001 Chattacon, Chattanooga, Tennessee (program book included an interview with Jill Bauman)

References

*''Starlog'' magazine, 1983, "Interview with Jill Bauman"
*''Silver Web'' magazine, 1993, "Jill Bauman—Queen of Darkness" (interview by Stanley Wiater)
*''Fangoria'' magazine #78 (October, 1988), "Interview with Jill Bauman"
*"Jill Bauman—An Appreciation" by F. Paul Wilson for I-CON IX program book (1990)

External links

Jill Bauman's official site
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