I am a major fan of the work of the late great Kelly Freas. If you look closely at the scan of the Ace Double-Back cover you will see his autograph in silver. I spent a lot of time at his table at San Diego Comic Cons over the years. I love his line work and I love his cover painting even more. He had a very distinctive palette and great layout and figure. I have bought more than one Science Fiction book because of his cover paintings. (You can`t go wrong he alway read every book before he would paint the cover)

This last Wednesday I was at the Laguna Colllege of Art & Design industry mixer and bam, there is Kelly`s palette and even a whole lot of the whimsy of his figure and layout. (Okay, along with a little O’Keeffe`s Lawrence Tree on the left of her flyer but even that looked like Kelly painted it) So I made a special point of talking to Jessica Bulinski and she had never heard of Kelly Freas. Well she has now. I say she is going to be someone to watch in the feature. Oh, and she is looking for illustration work too now that she graduated.

Larry Loc (ASIFA Blog Guy)  ¶ 12:56 PM