David Martin
7990 Topeka Avenue, #1
Cascade, CO 80809-1714

(719) 684-9847


Occasionally an individual discovers at a very early age the course his life will take.  For David Martin 
that discovery came at age three when he saw lizards transformed, through camera trickery, into dinosaurs 
in Johnny Weissmuller's JUNGLE JIM series.  From that moment forward, David knew two things:  that 
he wanted to make his living drawing monsters, and that he wanted, someday, to take a jungle safari to 
the lost world he had glimpsed in his childhood.

From such a beginning, the transition to a career in Science Fiction and Fantasy illustration was a natural 
step.  David began his career more than fifteen years ago by producing covers for adventure games, 
paperback books, computer simulation games, record albums, videotapes, miniatures, posters, cards and 
prints. In that time, he has produced over 140 published covers on products sold in Canada, England, 
France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Spain.  His work has found 
acclaim in our own country as well, garnering fifty-four awards from Science Fiction and Fantasy 
conventions across the country.

His interest in Science Fiction and Fantasy soon led him to specialize in this field, and his covers have 
graced the novels and short stories of Tanith Lee, Michael Resnick, Gordon R. Dickson, Algis Budrys and 
Fred Saberhagen.

In 1991, David's work appeared at Olympia and York's "lnto The Future" exhibition in New York, one of 
the first international Science Fiction art shows in this country.  In 1992, he was nominated for a Chesley 
Award, the Science Fiction art world's highest honor, for a cover to TSR's AMAZING STORIES.  Finally, 
in 1994, David traveled to the rain forests of Venezuela to climb Auyan tepui, a primordial mountain 
plateau first written about by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his novel, THE LOST WORLD.

Occasionally, life comes full circle.