Dave Dorman

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Dave Dorman
Eisner Award, 1993
Inkpot Award, 2010[1]
davedorman.com

Dave Dorman (born 1958 in

fantasy illustrator best known for his Star Wars
artwork.

Early life

Dorman's parents are Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jack N. Dorman and Phyllis Dorman. Both parents are deceased. Dorman is married to award-winning TV/video producer, writer and publicist Denise (McDonald) Dorman of WriteBrain Media.[3] He has a son, Jack, who was born in 2004.[2]

Dorman's father

radio-controlled airplanes
. Jack Dorman created historically accurate interiors for the planes and was an expert at model building. Dorman attributes his attention to detail to his father and credits both parents with giving him emotional and financial support early in his career. Together, Dorman and his father won numerous awards for their model building projects.

Dorman attended St. Mary's Seminary and University in Maryland and The Kubert School in New Jersey. Dorman also taught a week-long seminar at the art department of Savannah College of Art and Design in the mid-1990s. The head of the art department at the time was Durwin Talon. Dorman has been asked to teach workshops at Flashpoint Academy and the American Academy of Art, both in Chicago, Illinois. He is also a co-founder of Comix Academy, along with Durwin Talon, Scott Hampton and Christopher Moeller and John van Fleet. This is a master class in comic book illustration.

Career

Dorman attended a graphic arts program at St. Mary's College in Maryland, but left after a year because it did not have an illustration component. Next, he attended The Kubert School in New Jersey, but left after one year because their curriculum only taught black and white illustration and Dorman wanted to be a cover artist.[2] As an illustrator, he describes himself as self-taught.[4]

Dorman began his professional career in 1979, and has done illustration for comic book companies

action figures in the mid-1980s.[7] In 1994, Dorman was commissioned to do the artwork for a series of 90 trading cards for the Ultraverse comic book setting.[8] In 1996, Hasbro asked Dorman to create more artwork for its 12-inch G.I. Joe collector series.[7]

Although he has produced art based on such characters as

San Diego Comic-Con, where he was a featured guest that year.[10] During that show, he also launched his new career retrospective book, ROLLING THUNDER: The Art of Dave Dorman, which is published by IDW Publishing and Desperado Publishing.[11]

Dorman began his

roleplaying game (RPG) work beginning with Pacesetter Ltd in 1985, and began freelancing for TSR in 1987, producing cover art for Dungeons & Dragons books as Gargoyle and the original Draconomicon, among others. Dorman also did artwork for the games Shadowrun (FASA), Torg (West End Games, or WEG), Champions (Hero Games), Mayfair Games' "Role Aids", Rifts (Palladium Books), and Blood of Heroes. Dorman also produced all the art for some of West End Games' Star Wars role-playing game supplements in the 1990s.[12] He did some illustrations for the Micronauts toy line in the early 2000s.[13]

Dorman has been known for more than 20 years because of his photo-realistic style of oil painting. Dorman's Star Wars: The Art of Dave Dorman cocktail table art book was the top-selling art book in 1996 for Ballantine Books and became the textbook of choice for illustration courses at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.[14] He was also voted "The #1 Star Wars Artist of All Time" by Star Wars Galaxy Magazine in 1996.[citation needed] Star Wars creator George Lucas is a fan of Dorman's work and has purchased dozens of Dorman's original oil paintings.[2] Dorman held a license with Lucasfilm for many years to do limited edition prints.[2]

Dorman's own proprietary work,

Dan Roebuck (River's Edge, Lost, Desperate Housewives) for a fictional children's book authored by Roebuck. Dorman is also in development with Dave Elliott's Atomeka Press for a Wasted Lands
publishing project.

Dorman has been featured in interviews for the Dennis Miller Radio Show, Mancow's Morning Madhouse,

Turner Network Television's Southern Living Presents magazine program, and WEAR-TV in Pensacola, an ABC affiliate. Dorman is an avid supporter of Tom Roush's Pensacola Film Festival and the Baytowne Film Festival
and he creates the artwork for their annual event posters.

Dorman can be found annually at his

HeroesCon, and Detroit's Motor City Comic Con, and is often the featured guest artist at numerous Magic: The Gathering
tournaments. Dorman's own company, Rolling Thunder, publishes art books and limited edition litho prints.

In 2010, IDW Publishing, now partnered with Desperado Publishing, is putting out the new book "Rolling Thunder: The Art of Dave Dorman." A special edition issue will launch at San Diego Comic-Con International, where Dorman is a "special guest." Dorman estimates this book shows about half of his artwork, many of it personal work and pieces never before seen by the general public. In the book, Dorman speaks candidly and personally for the very first time about his mid-life crisis and how he survived it. In 2009, Dorman was a judge for the SPECTRUM Annual, the fantasy world's bible for illustrators. In 2009, Dorman also made history by creating entirely digital art, for his very first time, during Reverie '09, sponsored by MassiveBlack.com and ConceptArt.org.

Also in 2010, Dorman launched the podcast "Wednesday is Comic Book Day" with his wife, Denise Dorman – a mash-up of comic book industry insider news, pop culture news and interviews. The podcast is a free download on iTunes and is available via Farpoint Media, the producers of the show.

Awards

Dorman has been the guest of honor at

Eisner Award in 1993 for his art work on Alien: Tribes.[15]

Personal life

He has been a longtime resident of

Comic-Con twenty-seven years in a row.[16]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ Inkpot Award
  2. ^
    Daily Herald. Archived from the original
    on April 9, 2016. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  3. ^ http://www.writebrainmedia.com
  4. ^ a b c d Logan, Casey (October 5, 1998). "Shalimar man voted best Star Wars artist", Northwest Florida Daily News, p. E6.
  5. ^ a b Walker, Greg (December 8, 2006). "Local artists get a chance to learn from the (Jedi) master". The Sun. Naperville. Archived from the original on October 31, 2013. Retrieved October 15, 2012.
  6. ^ Dorman, Dave. ROLLING THUNDER: The Art of Dave Dorman.
  7. ^ a b Wolf, Karen (December 5, 1996). "GI Joe still a man of action despite 30-plus years and a variety of incarnations". Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service. Archived from the original on October 31, 2013. Retrieved October 17, 2012.=
  8. ^ Reysen, Frank Jr. (June 1, 1994). "Sports cards take a hit, survey shows". Playthings. Archived from the original on October 31, 2013. Retrieved October 17, 2012.=
  9. ^ "Dave Dorman Wins 2010 Inkpot Award". Archived from the original on December 29, 2009.
  10. ^ The Official Blog of Dave Dorman
  11. ^ http://www.davedorman.com
  12. ^ "Dave Dorman at Pen & Paper". Archived from the original on August 26, 2007.
  13. ^ Szadkowski, Joseph (January 4, 2003). "Elektra joins new lineup of action comic figures". The Washington Times.=
  14. ISBN 978-1452872162
    .
  15. ^ a b Ricketts, Dusty (June 4, 2006). "A Unique Buyer Incentive". Northwest Florida Daily News. Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Archived from the original on January 25, 2013. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
  16. ^ Goodale, Gloria (July 21, 2011). "How Comic-Con went from geek to Hollywood megabucks". The Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on April 13, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2012.

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