Richard Hescox
Bio
Richard Hescox’s first published work appeared on the cover of Marvel Comics “Monsters Unleashed” #7 soon followed by his first paperback cover art, created for DAW books, appearing in 1976. Since then he has produced over 140 covers for nearly every major publisher of fantasy and science fiction.
While living in Southern California, he frequently illustrated for the motion picture industry. He created production illustrations for “The Howling” and “The Philadelphia Experiment”. His surrealistic paintings were featured as props in the film “House”. He has contributed artwork to the ad campaigns of many films including E.T., The Dark Crystal and The Fly, and painted the finished poster art for the films “Swamp Thing” and “Death Valley”. He also served as background painting department head for an animated science fiction series.
Richard has been involved in creating artwork and developing game ideas for interactive computer games for 20 years. He was the lead visual designer on Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, The Riddle of Master Lu for Sanctuary Woods. At Dynamix Richard was Conceptual Art Director on the game RAMA (working with science fiction authors Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee), designing all of the visual aspects of the game and contributing to the gameplay design itself. He also served as Art Director on Gabriel Knight III. Richard has contributed conceptual designs to a wide variety of games, including Quest for Glory V, Cyberstorm II, Tribes, Socom 3 and MechWarrior Prime.
Personally selected by the author, Richard recently completed over 70 illustrations for the Subterranean Press Limited Edition of George R. R. Martin’s “A Clash of Kings” published in 2014.
His personal paintings and private commissions, featuring mythological women in mysterious and lyrical settings, have often been featured in “Spectrum” and have been selected as finalists in the Art Renewal Center’s Salon.
His paintings have been exhibited at the Society of Illustrators in New York, the Delaware Art Museum, the Canton Museum of Art, and the Allentown Art Museum.
Upcoming Events
In honor of George R. R. Martin’s appearance at Norwescon this year, I will be introducing my new art portfolios featuring illustrations I created for the Subterranean Press, Limited Edition, of “A Clash of Kings”. These will be in the Art Show Print Shop for all to see. George asked me to create this artwork for the project and personally approved each piece before inclusion in the book. The extremely limited edition of the book sold out immediately upon announcement, so these portfolios will be the only opportunity to acquire some of the artwork for those who missed the book.