Name Cliff Nielsen Role Artist | Known for Illustration | |
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Awards Society of Illustrators, Spectrum Education Art Center College of Design | ||
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Cliff Nielsen is a book illustrator and comic book artist. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database credits him with cover art for about 500 book and magazine covers published since 1994 Nielsen is best known for his work on projects such as Star Wars, The X-Files, Chronicles of Narnia among many projects including advertising campaigns, designs, and magazines. His illustrations have been recognized for their excellence by the Society of Illustrators, Print, and Spectrum among others. Feature articles focusing on his work appear in design publications and fanzine magazines. Nielsen has been an international speaker on digital art and has served as a judge for the Society of Illustrators and a variety of professional illustration award programs. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Personal life
In 1994, Nielsen graduated from the Art Center College of Design, where he also currently teaches.
In 1995, the husband-and-wife team of Cliff and Terese Nielsen (since divorced) collaborated on Ruins, a Marvel Comics mini-series (two issues).
Work
Nielsen works are primarily created digitally. He has illustrated the covers of several books, including:
Cliff Nielsen has also illustrated some comic books, such as Marvel comic book Ruins.
Besides this, he was known for working in the magazine Carpe Noctem, and was interviewed as well as created a few covers. He is currently designing/writing a graphic novel known as Beloved, but it so far, has only shown at ComicCon. Nielsen has also illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.