2004 Hugo Award Winner-Best Fan Artist & 13th Best Science Fiction Artist in the World!
"The Frank Zappa of the Art World" will be Guest of Honor at RadCon (Feb. 2006) and MisCon (May 2006)
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![]() Stolen Car (for Baycon 2005) |
![]() Welcome Aboard! (For Worldcon inflight magazine) |
![]() Cthulhu Senryu (Nick Mamatas chapbook) |
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![]() How I Helped the Chicago Cubs (Finally!) Win the World Series (Harper Scott memoir) |
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![]() Derelict (SFWA Bulletin) |
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![]() Paradise Passed (Jerry Oltion novel) |
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![]() ELVISSAURUS (For San Diego in 2006 Westercon bid) |
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![]() (for Cheryl Morgan's fanzine) |
![]() Gothic Wine (Darren Speegle novel) |
(for Guy Lillian III's Challenger fanzine) |
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![]() BASFA (Bay Area SF Association) |
![]() BREAKDOWN (for Nth Degree fanzine) |
![]() AD ASTRA (for Talebones) |
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![]() FUNDAMENTALLY CHALLENGED (anthology edited by Jeffrey Turner) |
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![]() TRICK OF DISASTER (for Greetings from Lake Wu) |
![]() SCENT OF ROTTING ROSES (for Greetings from Lake Wu) |
![]() GOD (for Greetings from Lake Wu) |
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![]() EGLANTINE's TIME (for Greetings from Lake Wu) |
![]() JACK's HOUSE (for Greetings from Lake Wu) |
![]() GLASS (for Greetings from Lake Wu) |
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![]() THE COURTESY OF GUESTS (for Greetings from Lake Wu) |
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![]() COVER IMAGE for Greetings from Lake Wu |
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ANGLE OF MY DREAMS (for Greetings from Lake Wu) |
THE PASSING OF GUESTS (for Greetings from Lake Wu) |
![]() GORDY TABER (for Talebones magazine) |
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![]() FOREVER SLEEP (for Talebones magazine) |
![]() TALL SPIRITS (for Greetings from Lake Wu) |
![]() WITCHING HOUR (for Fantastic Stories magazine) |
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![]() STORED DREAMS (for Fantastic Stories magazine) |
![]() SYSOP (for Fantastic Stories magazine) |
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![]() VESSEL OF HEAVEN (for Eggplant Prods.) |
![]() THE WHITE HOTEL (for Fantastic Stories magazine) |
![]() EVENT HORIZON (for Talebones magazine) |
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GRAVESEND (for Fantastic Stories) |
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![]() ECHO & NARCISSUS (Book cover) |
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CHAIRMAN MAO GOES TO MARS (for a story by James Terman) |
BUILD ME (for Talebones magazine) |
HAMLET DREAMS (cover for the novel by Jennifer Barlow) |
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THE GOOD DAUGHTER (for Talebones magazine) |
SILENCE BEFORE STARLIGHT (for Talebones magazine) |
LIFEFORCE (for Fantastic Stories magazine) |
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JOEY'S MACHINE (for Fantastic Stories magazine) |
KARUNA, INC. (for Fantastic Stories magazine) |
SLUGBALL (for the Hugo-nominated Strange Horizons magazine) |
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BEST-KNOWN MAN IN THE WORLD (Cover for Daniel Pearlman book) |
CLONING JESUS (for Fantastic Stories magazine) |
The Evil Fairy Godmother from the story CINDY (for Fantastic Stories magazine) |
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GIRLS/GUNS: WILLYCON 2001 CONVENTION POSTER (Artist Guest of Honor) |
LOSING MEMORIES (for Darkling Plain magazine) |
THE TOWER (OF BABEL) (for Darkling Plain magazine) |
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GUILDMASTER (Grand Prize Winner/Illustrators of the Future) |
THE SAD GIRL (for Talebones magazine) With poetry by Christina Sng |
RESURRECTION MAN (for E-scape ezine) With poetry by Christina Sng |
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HAUNTING MIRANDA (for E-scape ezine) |
COLORS OF PAIN (for Altair magazine, Spring 2000 - My first print publication!) |
MORE ART COMING SOON! |
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These images may contain hidden messages. Or not.
I commissioned Christina Sng to write poems for The Sad Girl, Resurrection Man, and Indifference and Keep the Universe Beautiful.
AUTOMATIC ART! To set your computer to bring up a new Wu image every 6 seconds, click here. (Only works well with hi-speed connections.)
. Please tell me which piece you like the most. To see photos of me with various luminaries of the sci-fi world, including Ray Bradbury, Nichelle Nicholls, Anthony Head, Gil Gerard, David Gerrold, Joe Haldeman, Marcus Cole, Nana Visitor, Garrett Wong, Ellen Datlow, Vernor Vinge, Harlan Ellison, Gregory Benford, Hal Clement, Kim Stanley Robinson, Connie Willis, Bjo Trimble, Frank Kelly Freas, Bob Eggleton's hair, David Brin, Esther Friesner, Tim Powers, William F. Wu (no relation), Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Julie Czerneda, 4E Ackerman, Vincent DiFate, Val Lakey Lindahn and Ron Lindahn, Robert Sheckley, Kent Brewster of Speculations, Derryl Murphy of On Spec, Chris Butler, Marina Fitch, Mary Anne Mohanraj of Strange Horizons, Patrick and Honna Swenson of Talebones, Ken Wharton, Lori Ann White, Jay Lake, Eric Witchey, Fiona McAuliffe, Ray Vukcevich, Jerry Oltion, Kathy Oltion, the Bill from School House Rock, and many more, click here.Images (c) 1998-2005 Frank Wu
SHORT BIO
Frank Wu’s Hugo award-winning art has or will materialize in many magazines and fanzines, including The SFWA Bulletin, Strange Horizons, On Spec, Fantastic Stories, Talebones, Darkling Plain, Altair, E-scape, and Nth Degree, plus the fanzines Emerald City, Argentus, The Drink Tank, Corrupt Marquee, and Challenger. Frank's done fan art for the San Diego in 2006 Westercon bid, for the Bay Area Science Fiction Association (BASFA), LA con IV (Worldcon 2006) and the Speculations RumorMill. He’s also painted covers for books by Jerry Oltion, Mark Siegel, Jennifer Barlow, Daniel Pearlman, and Jamie Rosen. 2003 saw the release of a small press book of stories by Jay Lake, illustrated by Wu; the collection is entitled Greetings from Lake Wu. Frank won the Illustrators of the Future Grand Prize and the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist. He also has four scientific papers on DNA replication to his credit, along with humor published in The Journal of Irreproducible Results and The Annals of Improbable Research. His story about a Giant Space Chicken with delusions of grandeur was recently published in the anthology Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales. When not creating stuff, Frank can be found hanging out with monks, hunting for mastodon bones in New Mexico and dinosaur bones and fish fossils in Wyoming, holding Laura Palmer's diary, riding in banana-shaped mopeds, touching art when the museum guards aren’t looking, searching for a river of molten lava to drop keys into, or walking the earth, meeting people, getting into adventures, you know, like Caine in Kung Fu. For a full list of his publications, click here.
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PUBLICATIONS (COMPLETE LIST) 2005 The current projects are a cover and a set of interior art for Fantastic Stories. The stories include "Increments" by Robert Frazier, "The Case of the Haunted City" by Josepha Sherman, "Through the Looking Glass" by Terry McGarry, "Iron Horse" by Shariann Lewitt, and "Cast a Cold Eye" by William Barton. ... I finished up an illo for the story "Dragon Cloud Skies" by N.K. Jemisin for Strange Horizons. ... The previous project was a space scene featuring the SECC (Scottish Exhibition Centre) "Armadillo" building with rockets launching behind it. This is for the Worldcon this August. ... Earlier I finished up a space station painting for the upcoming hardcover novel How I Helped the Chicago Cubs (Finally!) Win the World Series, by Harper Scott. ... In May, I was Artist Guest of Honor at Baycon, and painted a program book cover for them, along with T-shirt and badge art. ... I painted the cover for Nick Mamatas' chapbook of humor Lovecraftian poems called Cthulhu Senryu. ... I finished up a painting I submitted to SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) for use as the cover for the next issue of the Bulletin. I use the term "painting" loosely, because the canvas board I used was made three-dimensional with bumps of glue, wood bits, etc. The image is a derelict alien spaceship orbiting a nebula (get it?). ... I started out the year with a little cartoon for Steve Silver's fanzine Argentus. He was doing a special edition on gameshows, and a contributed my take on less-than-perfect robots competing on Jeopardy! This was also based on an idea by Alison McBain. ... Later this year, I'll have a piece of interior artwork included in the anthology The Exquisite Corpuscle. This anthology is being edited by yours truly and Jay Lake and is essentially a literary game of telephone. ... At Corflu in February I did half a dozen cartoons, for the Forman's upcoming fanzine "Corrupt Marquee," for Chris Garcia's fanzine "The Drink Tank", for BayCon (where I'll be Artist GOH) in May, for Chaz Baden's "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" fanzine, and I thought it would be fun to submit a piece for Pat and Dick Lupoff's fanzine "Xero," which hasn't been published in 40 years. |
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2004 I capped off the year with the cover for the Jerry Oltion book Paradise Passed, published by Wheatland Press. ... I also had a piece of art on the LA Con IV (worldcon in L.A., 2006) website splash page, called "Heroes." ... My artwork of a Klingon spacebabe rising from the water is being used for poster artwork for the film Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water. This was my first movie poster. ... Earlier this year I did a cover for Nth Degree magazine for the story "Breakdown". ... I recently submitted an illo for Steven Silver's fanzine Argentus called "Killfish". ... Earlier this year I completed the cover for the Fundamentally Challenged anthology edited by Jeff Turner. The antho has stories wherein something we all believe to be true - like gravity working or the earth revolving around the sun - stops being true. In the cover illo, trees grow upsidedown. It's called "Mama, Put My Trees in the Ground." ... I've been a Star Trek fan my whole life, and I finally got to do a sanctioned Trek piece. I did a variation of the "I Want You" theme, with a killer Klingon spacegirl, for Lawrence Schoen's Klingon Language Institute journal. ... I also painted the cover for Gothic Wine, the latest book from Aardwolf Press. ... Star*Line poetry magazine no. 27.2 reprinted my image "The Sad Girl", which had earlier appeared in Talebones magazine. ... Talebones itself finally gave me a cover assignment (Thanks, Patrick and Honna!), so I did the illo "Ad Astra" for them. ... Over the Christmas holiday, I did a piece of art for the San Diego in 2006 Westercon bid, called "The Lounge Lizard, Elvissaurus, or Dino Marino". This is intended to appear on book bags. That sums up to about 19 pubs this year.
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