Charles Vess

Born 1951-06-10

Charles Vess is a fantasy artist and comics artist who has specialized in the illustration of myths and fairy tales. He studied at Virginia Commonwealth University and got his first professional position as a commercial animator at Candy Apple Productions. In 1976, he moved to New York and became a freelance illustrator. By the late 1980s Vess had found a niche in the world of fantasy comic art. In 1990, Vess began one of his best-known collaborations to date, with writer Neil Gaiman. In 1991, his work with Neil Gaiman on the Sandman comic short story "A Midsummer Night's Dream" became the first comic to win the World Fantasy Award. He has received numerous awards and honors for his work including the 2019, and 2023 Locus Award for Best Artist, and the 2019 Hugo Awards for Best Professional Artist and Best Art Book for The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition.

Comics

Modern Masters — 1 issue
Comics Revue — 1 issue
The Fan Free Funnies — 3 issues
Howard the Duck — 1 issue
Heavy Metal Magazine — 5 issues
The Horns of Elfland — 1 issue
Epic Illustrated — 10 issues
The Comic Times, Media Showcase — 1 issue
Eclipse, the Magazine — 1 issue
Darkstorm — 2 issues
Sabre — 2 issues
Marvel Fanfare — 8 issues
Voyages: Adventures in Fantasy — 1 issue
Conan the King — 2 issues
Kull the Conqueror — 1 issue
Conan the Barbarian — 1 issue
Marvel Super Special — 1 issue
Conan the Destroyer — 2 issues
The Amazing Spider-Man — 4 issues
The Savage Sword of Conan — 3 issues
Gene Day's Black Zeppelin — 1 issue
Web of Spider-Man — 4 issues
Marvel Graphic Novel — 2 issues
Web of Spider-Man Annual — 3 issues
Heroes for Hope Starring the X-Men — 1 issue
Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe — 1 issue
Spider-Man and Zoids — 2 issues
Hugga Bunch — 1 issue
Dick Tracy Monthly — 1 issue
Outposts — 1 issue
Nightmask — 1 issue
The Book of Night — 3 issues
Godzilla, King of the Monsters Special — 1 issue
Icarus — 1 issue
The Transformers — 1 issue
Marvel Age — 1 issue
Daredevil — 1 issue
Heathcliff — 1 issue
The Spectre — 3 issues
The Rocketeer Adventure Magazine — 1 issue
Blood of Dracula — 1 issue
Taboo — 2 issues
Marvel Comics Presents — 2 issues
A1 — 1 issue
Thor — 1 issue
Alvar Mayor: Death and Silver — 1 issue
The Mutant Misadventures of Cloak and Dagger — 1 issue
Spider-Man: Spirits of the Earth — 1 issue
Thor Annual — 1 issue
Concrete Celebrates Earth Day 1990 — 1 issue
Cheval Noir — 1 issue
Sandman — 4 issues
Comics Scene — 1 issue
Zulunation — 1 issue
The Book of Night — 1 issue
Born to Be Wild — 1 issue
The Books of Magic — 1 issue
The Sandman: Dream Country — 1 issue
Hook — 1 issue
Hook — 4 issues
The Spectacular Spider-Man — 1 issue
Swamp Thing — 14 issues
Marvel Super-Heroes — 1 issue
The Pirates of Dark Water — 1 issue
The Amazing Spider-Man 30th Anniversary Poster Magazine — 1 issue
Aesop's Desecrated Morals Special Ashcan Preview Edition — 1 issue
Aesop's Desecrated Morals (Classics Desecrated Special V2#1) — 1 issue
The Books of Magic — 1 issue
Tales from the Heart — 1 issue
The Spectre — 1 issue
Dark Horse Presents — 2 issues
Hellblazer Special — 1 issue
Swamp Thing Annual — 1 issue
A Death Gallery — 1 issue
Marvel Tales — 1 issue
The Books of Magic — 15 issues
The Sandman: A Gallery of Dreams — 1 issue
Prince Valiant — 4 issues
Animal Man — 1 issue
The Book of Ballads and Sagas S.D. Con Edition — 1 issue
Classics Desecrated — 1 issue
The Sandman: Dream Country — 1 issue
The Books of Magic — 3 issues
Bar Sinister — 1 issue
Ice Age on the World of Magic: The Gathering — 4 issues
Cerebus — 1 issue
Fallen Empires on the World of Magic: The Gathering — 1 issue
The Vertigo Gallery: Dreams and Nightmares — 1 issue
The Book of Ballads and Sagas — 4 issues
Bone Reader — 1 issue
Convocations - A Magic: The Gathering Gallery — 1 issue
Homelands on the World of Magic: The Gathering — 1 issue
The Sandman: The Kindly Ones — 1 issue
Negative Burn — 2 issues
The Sandman: The Kindly Ones — 1 issue
Ballads — 1 issue
Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust Preview — 1 issue
Starchild: Crossroads — 1 issue
The Sandman: The Wake — 1 issue
Images of A Distant Soil — 1 issue
Mythography — 1 issue
The Sandman: The Wake — 1 issue
Trilogy Tour — 1 issue
Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre — 1 issue
SPX '97 Comic — 1 issue
No Justice, No Piece! — 1 issue
Ash: Cinder & Smoke — 1 issue
Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust — 4 issues
Finder — 1 issue
Essential Vertigo: The Sandman — 1 issue
Poe — 1 issue
Trilogy Tour II — 1 issue
Frank Frazetta Fantasy Illustrated — 1 issue
Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust — 1 issue
The Books of Magic Annual — 1 issue
The Adventures of Browser and Sequoia — 1 issue
Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust — 1 issue
Bone — 2 issues
The Books of Faerie: Molly's Story — 4 issues
The Big Book of Grimm — 1 issue
Promethea — 1 issue
The Comics Journal — 1 issue
The Sandman [Sandman Library Edition] — 1 issue
Vertigo Visions: Artwork from the Cutting Edge of Comics — 1 issue
The Dreaming — 1 issue
Promethea — 1 issue
The Marquis: Danse Macabre — 1 issue
Rose — 3 issues
Castle Waiting — 1 issue
The Song of Mykal — 1 issue
The Forbidden Book — 1 issue
Promethea — 1 issue
Rose — 1 issue
Rose — 1 issue
Vertigo Visions: Ten Years of Artwork on the Edge — 1 issue
The New Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Stories: From Crumb to Clowes — 1 issue
Transformers — 1 issue
Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom — 1 issue
The Book of Ballads — 1 issue
A1 Sketchbook — 1 issue
Marvel Comics Presents: Wolverine — 1 issue
A1 Bojeffries Terror Tome — 1 issue
Marvel Milestones: Venom & Hercules — 1 issue
Mister X: The Definitive Collection — 1 issue
Marvel Halloween Ashcan 2005 [Spider-Man Halloween Ashcan 2005] — 1 issue
The Book of Ballads — 1 issue
The Absolute Sandman — 3 issues
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall — 1 issue
Spider-Man: Birth of Venom — 1 issue
Strangers in Paradise — 1 issue

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