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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 "Into 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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