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- David Martin
- 7990 Topeka Avenue, #1
- Cascade, CO 80809-1714
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- (719) 684-9847
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Occasionally, life comes full circle.
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