So the other day I received my copy of Spectrum 16 , which rounds up the best speculative art of 2008. Realms of Fantasy put in an appearance in the editorial section. Here is what was written in the introduction: “The genre’s short-fiction magazines continued to struggle with dropping circulations and rising production costs. Realms of Fantasy–the field’s only magazine with color art–abruptly folded (even though their circulation had actually increased ) only to be purchased by Warren Lapine with the promise of resurrection by mid-’09.” Mission accomplished. As to actual illustrations appearing in the editorial section of Spectrum, RoF had two: Dave Leri ‘s illustration to “All Beautiful Things” by Sharon Mock, and Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon had a full page devoted to their illustration to “Fragments of a Fantasy Life” by Josh Rountree & Mikal Trimm. If you care to do a little bit of digging on the respective sites of the artists, you should be able to turn up images of the illustrations. Congrats to the artists! And congrats to Laura Cleveland as well, who handled the art direction for RoF back in ’08.
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Realms of Fantasy in Spectrum 16
