Gregory Manchess is a Caldecott Medal and Hamilton King Award winning illustrator who created the House Skull paintings for The Locked Tomb Series by Tamsyn Muir. His Sixth House Skull painting is also used for cover art for The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex short story.
Biography[]
A graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Manchess has worked as a freelance illustrator for over forty years. Aside from his illustrations, he has given lectures and master classes, illustrated stamps for the US Postal Service, participated in a National Geographic expedition, has his art featured in the Coen Brother's film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and published a widescreen novel, Above the Timberline.
Works[]
Author/Illustrator[]
- Above the Timberline
Book Covers[]
- Cover Her Face by PD James
- Dreamer of Dune: Biography of Frank Herbert by Brian Herbert
- Glory Road by Robert Heinlein and Samuel Dulaney
- Zero Cool by Michael Crichton
- And More...
Other Works[]
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum -- Portraits
- National Geographic Illustrations for "The Wreck of the C.S.S. Alabama"
- National Geographic Exhibition "Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Wydah, from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship"
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) Concept Art
- 2009 Oregon State Stamp
- Literary Series Mark Twain Stamp
Illustrations for the Locked Tomb Trilogy[]
First House
Second House
Third House
Fourth House
Fifth House
Sixth House
Seventh House
Eighth House
Ninth House