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- Michael Whelan (born June 29, 1950) is a multiple-award-winning American artist of imaginative realism, formerly working for over 30 years as an illustrator specializing in science fiction and fantasy before devoting all his work to a fine art career. His art has appeared on over 350 book and magazine covers, including many Stephen King novels, most of the Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series, Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star series, the DAW editions of Michael Moorcock's Elric books, numerous DAW editions of C. J. Cherryh's work, many of Robert A. Heinlein's novels including Friday and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the Ace editions of H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy novels, and Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Otherland, and Shadowmarch series. Whelan provided covers and interior illustrations for Stephen King's The Gunslinger and The Dark Tower, the first and last of his Dark Tower books. Whelan's work can also be seen on the cover of The Jacksons' Victory album, Sepultura's Beneath the Remains, Arise, Chaos A.D. and Roots albums, Soulfly's Dark Ages, Obituary's Cause of Death, and every album by Elric-influenced metal band Cirith Ungol. Whelan recently painted the cover art for thrash metal band Evile's album Infected Nations. Since the mid-1990s he has pursued a successful career as a gallery artist, selling his non-commissioned paintings in galleries in the United States as well as privately through his Web site. In addition to his fine art work, Whelan has continued to receive awards for his illustrations. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in June 2009.
- Michael Whelan, né le 29 juin 1950 à Culver City, est un peintre et illustrateur américain de science-fiction et d'heroic fantasy.
- Michael Whelan is een Amerikaans illustrator van sciencefiction- en fantasyboeken. Tegenwoordig wijdt hij zich aan schilderkunst. Whelan heeft meer dan 350 omslagen van boeken en platen gemaakt voor auteurs als Isaac Asimov, Anne McCaffrey, Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Moorcock, Tad Williams en Stephen King. Hij illustreerde albums van The Jackson 5, Sepultura, Soulfly en Meat Loaf. Whelan woont in Danbury (Connecticut) met vrouw en kinderen.
- Майкл Уэлан — известный американский художник в жанре фантастики, специализирующийся на иллюстрации фантастических книг. Многократный лауреат премии «Хьюго».
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- Michael Whelan (born June 29, 1950) is a multiple-award-winning American artist of imaginative realism, formerly working for over 30 years as an illustrator specializing in science fiction and fantasy before devoting all his work to a fine art career.
- Michael Whelan, né le 29 juin 1950 à Culver City, est un peintre et illustrateur américain de science-fiction et d'heroic fantasy.
- Michael Whelan is een Amerikaans illustrator van sciencefiction- en fantasyboeken. Tegenwoordig wijdt hij zich aan schilderkunst. Whelan heeft meer dan 350 omslagen van boeken en platen gemaakt voor auteurs als Isaac Asimov, Anne McCaffrey, Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Moorcock, Tad Williams en Stephen King. Hij illustreerde albums van The Jackson 5, Sepultura, Soulfly en Meat Loaf. Whelan woont in Danbury (Connecticut) met vrouw en kinderen.
- Майкл Уэлан — известный американский художник в жанре фантастики, специализирующийся на иллюстрации фантастических книг. Многократный лауреат премии «Хьюго».
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