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Upcoming appearances:

NORWESCON 33

Seattle, Washington

April 1-4, 2010

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M:TG Rise of the Eldrazi Prerelease- Montreal

Montreal, Canada

April 17, 2010

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M:TG Grand Prix - Lyon

Lyon, France

May 8th & 9th, 2010

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M:TG Grand Prix - Portland

Portland, Oregon

September 11th & 12th, 2010

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2/19/2010 -- Also: I'll be attending the Rise of the Eldrazi™ Prerelease Event in Montreal, Quebec on Saturday, April 17th.

2/19/2010 -- There's now more specific information on the Magic: The Gathering's© Grand Prix Lyon event which I'll be attending in May:

2/10/2010 -- I've added a Facebook presence to the site which I'll be treating as a "blog". Please stop on by if you have the guts!!

2/8/2010 -- RIP WoTC Star Wars RPG :(. I didn't even get around to showing off what I had done in the books since 2003. Oh well, I'll try to put up a section on the site that archives what I did make for the game...

1/28/2010 -- Some details on this Saturday's Seattle WorldWake™ Prerelease event: Anson Maddocks and myself will probably be there at the Seattle Center around 10am and go until we drop, which usually will be around 5pm or 6. I'll be bringing a full complement of prints if you'd like to check them out, as well as artist proof cards for sale. It's usually a good idea to expect card signings of twenty cards per visit through the line if one forms. That way, people with one or two won't have to wait tremendously long times to get them signed. Besides, I'm not going anywhere! :) Looking forward to seeing some of you there!!

1/6/2010 -- I'll be attending the Magic: The Gathering© WorldWake™ Prerelease here in Seattle on Saturday, January the 30th. The event will be held in the Seattle Center's Pavilion B. I'll be bringing the usual stuff: prints, artist proofs, and my poor wrist for signing! I hope you can come by and say hi!

12/31/2009 -- Happy New Year, everybody! May your next be peaceful, prosperous, and all-around better.

12/16/2009 -- I've gone over the website and added color profiles to most of the larger .jpeg images, so they'll display with a little more proper color and contrast. (All images now have proper copyright metadata as well.) A few of them went a little too intense, but overall I'm much happier with how the contrasts and intended color now come across. Give it a look!

11/18/2009 -- I wanted to announce that my good friend Anson Maddocks, a Magic artist from WAY back, is having an art opening in Seattle this Friday night in a game store called Gamma Ray Games. Here's a Facebook link to the event:

Come on by if you'd like to get stuff signed, or buy prints, his paintings (of course), or get some artist proof cards. Here's a snip from the press release:

Seattle, WA—Anson Maddocks, one of the original conceptual artists and designers for the world-famous Magic: the Gathering collectible trading-card game, will be showing a collection of his original paintings which represent his creative focus over the past 17 years. The Seattle-based artist will attend a reception at Gamma Ray Games to present these works and to autograph cards and artwork for fans.
The paintings range from personal explorations in surreal figurative work to the unorthodox approach towards fantasy illustration for which he is best known. Maddocks’ famous creations include illustrations for Magic: the Gathering such as Hurloon Minotaur, Llanowar Elves, Sengir Vampire, Disintegrate, Serendib Efreet, Elvish Archers and Fallen Angel. Apart from working as a principal artist on the emergence of Magic and its supplemental expansions, he has also contributed to such games as Vampire, Rage, Legend of the Five Rings, Legend of the Burning Sands, XXXenophile, Wraith, Shadow Fist, Battle Lords, The Whispering Vault, Sphere Walker and The Call of Cthulhu. Maddocks's artworks have appeared on the covers of Seattle Weekly, The Duelist, Inquest Magazine, Darkdreamer, The Unspeakable Oath and issues of the Magic: The Gathering comic book series. He has designed logos, posters, sets and props for performing groups such as Queensryche, Wicked Jezebel, The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow and several local fringe theatres, in addition to commissioned work for private collectors and numerous businesses including Cafe Vita and J-Sushi.

Who: Artist Anson Maddocks
What: Exhibition and Card/Print Signing
Where: Gamma Ray Games, 415 E. Pine Street, Seattle
When: Friday November 20 from 7-9pm, paintings are currently showing and will remain up through November.
How Much: free.

10/17/2009 -- "Roadwarrior" Christopher Otwell at mtgcast.com recently recorded a podcast interview with little old me at the Denver Zendikar™ prerelease event. If you're into incoherent ramblings on my part, give it a listen!

10/12/2009 -- A whole new slew of prints are now available through the online store! Check 'em out!

9/26/2009 -- Goblin Bushwhacker is in da house, so all three are up now! Also, some housekeeping was done to the site earlier in the week.

9/20/2009 -- I've updated the Art List page with the two pieces that were previewed earlier this week.

9/16/2009 -- Cool, so far two (*) of my artworks have previewed early from the Zendikar™ set. I wonder if there will be any more?

9/14/2009 -- There's a new article up at the Wizards™ site written by Jeremy Jarvis, the art director of Magic, explaining the concepting push I was involved with a year ago for the upcoming set, Zendikar™.

9/12/2009 -- I'll be heading to Denver for the September 26th & 27th Magic: The Gathering© Zendikar™ prerelease in just a few weeks. If you'd like your stuff signed, buy prints or other stuff, c'mon by! Here's a link to a page that gives more specific information.

Also, there's a bit of a preview that just showed up on the Wizards™ site about one of the Zendikar™ cards that will feature some of my artwork. Check it out.

9/12/2009 -- Geez, when did I put up the site for the first time? And how long did it have a temporary look? No more. Hopefully the new graphics are a start of a new redesign. Enjoy, I'll buff up the aluminum when I can find some polish.

9/2/2009 -- I've started to put some images into a Concept Art section. It's still a little rough, but hopefully should give you a taste of what's to come.

9/2/2009 -- I'll be appearing at the Wizards of the Coast™ booth at the PAX Expo 2009 in Seattle this Friday through Sunday. I'll be bringing original artwork, prints, artists proofs cards, and of course my poor wrist to sign any number of cards that are brought before me. I hope you can drop by!

7/17/2009 -- It's the start of the Japan 2009 Nationals here in Fukuyama City! Along with Anthony Waters, I'll be signing cards & selling prints today. I've got a whole lot of new ones this time, so I'll try to have them available on the website as soon as possible. My hours at the booth today on Friday will be from 10am to 1 pm (13:00), and again from 3pm until 6pm (15:00-18:00). I'll try to update soon!

2:00pm -- It's a fairly slow day so far, the actual event is more in the gearing up phase, people are qualifying in order to get into the weekend tournaments, so a lot of people haven't shown up yet. A good time to get some sketching in!

6/29/2009 -- Although I'm not ready to sell my artist-proofs cards through my website yet, I'm offering over e-Bay (through Jay Zeman, thanks Jay!) a set of my 16 original cards that were made up from a Collector's Edition set (since artist-proofs were never made from the round-cornered Alpha's). Because of that, they have square corners and aren't technically playable as tournament-legal cards. But, they're still very nifty, and this is the last time they'll be offered as a "complete set", since it includes the very last Chaos Orb in my collection. The sales are split into two, so 15 of the 16 will be sold here:

5/31/2009 -- The Grand Prix: Seattle/Tacoma event was a big success! Thanks to all the attendees, judges, and support staff from Cascade Games. A big thanks to the lovely Rosie Primero for helping Anson and I out with sellables and for being an all-around good sport. And special thanks to Tim Shields for the whole shebang!

1/9/2009 -- Happy New Year everyone! I'd like to thank everyone who stopped by at the Worlds: Memphis event last month, it was certainly a memorable one. My apologies to everyone in which my feeling under the weather on the Saturday-day caused any inconveniences. As Wil Wheaton would say, I caught the one-day version of "con sars". ;)

I've finally gotten back to filling out rest of the Shards of Alara™ images here.

Also, there's another event coming up in two weeks which I'll be attending, the Ft. Worth prerelease of Magic: The Gathering's© Conflux™ set. It will likely be on Saturday the 31st only, but I'll post more specific hours if I get them prior to my flight.

A Reminder -- Many links on the website became broken when Wizard's™ updated their own site. I'm doing my best to repair old links to articles and such, but in the meantime, if you come across an address that looks like this:

Then most articles will display the older info with the new site formatting. Sometimes some links just don't work properly, and are probably gone forever, but it's a solution that should work in the majority of cases.

12/1/08 -- I will be attending the Magic:The Gathering Worlds 2008 event in Memphis, Tennessee next weekend from Friday Dec 12th to Sunday the 14th. If you have any cards you'd like signed, would like to purchase prints or original art, please swing by if you're in the area! It should be a lot of fun. Alan Pollack and Matt Cavotta will also be there in full force!

12/1/08 -- Hey everybody, sorry for the silent treatment. I wanted to first thank Emanuele Vietina and everybody else over at the Lucca Card and Games for the fantastic show at the beginning of November. I was invited as an artist Guest of Honor and I had a fantastic time exhibiting a whole bunch of original art, signing of course, and having a grand old time in a grand old city. My friend Anson Maddocks and I had attended the convention a good twelve years ago (I think) and we were able to be amazed that it had grown so much since that time. Streets filled with exhibition tents and chock full of people in costume. Estimated attendance was somewhere around 150,000 people this time!

I'll try to show some photos in the near future, but in the meantime, look at some of these pictures on Flickr to see what we were up to:

Check out the other collections to get an idea of how huge this event was. Here's an interview video that was taken at a panel at the video. Having stormtroopers and Vader himself escort us out was a kick!