When the artist disappears, what remains?

My illustration process

The many faces of Alastor

Aristotle’s gaze, Caesar’s shadow, and a $2.3 million bargain

Lyrics, paintings, and the problem of explanation

My mother and her issues

Memories of "Dick Tracy"

Proof that fun doesn’t equal a good movie

From Titian to Assael

You never know

Alan Dean Foster’s novelizations

Recollections of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"

Album covers

Painting "Cities in Flight" after "Dick Tracy"

The Job That Launched My Career (And the Film I’m Glad I Wasn’t Credited For)

On art, honesty, and illusion

In ten years, "The Terminator" may look less like a thriller and more like a documentary.

He told stories

If it needs an explanation, it didn’t work

The Voice of Cepheus

Saint Joan and the Computer

My Least Favorite Art Director

Why every cover matters

Animorphs memes

The funny stuff

Childhood art

My work for David Weber

I used myself as a model a lot

The painting with the most "in" jokes

With Alan Dean Foster and Barclay Shaw

"Velvet Talks" magazine

City of a Million Legends and Masters of Space: A Plague in Paradise

A Wizard in Bedlam by Christoper Stasheff.

Looking for opportunities to sneak sex into my covers

My visit to Disneyland

Photoshop and Elastic Reality

54 covers for The Animorphs series

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