Gerald Brom

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Gerald Brom
Born (1965-03-09) March 9, 1965 (age 59)
Fantasy art, illustration

Gerald Brom (born March 9, 1965), known professionally as Brom, is an American

comics.[1]

Early life

Brom was born March 9, 1965, in Albany, Georgia.[2] As the son of a U.S. Army pilot he spent much of his early years on the move, living in other countries such as Japan and Germany (he graduated from Frankfurt American High School), and in U.S. states including Alabama and Hawaii. Brought up as a military dependent he was known by his last name only, and now signs his name as simply Brom: "I get that asked more than just about any other question. It's my real name, my last name. I got called Brom all the time as a kid, and it just stuck."[2]

Brom has been drawing and painting since childhood, although he had never taken any formal art classes. "I wouldn't exactly call myself self-taught, because I've always looked at the work of other artists and emulated what I liked about it. So you can say they taught me." Brom cites the work of

N.C. Wyeth, and Norman Rockwell as influences on his style: "Okay... Rockwell isn't the kind of inspiration most people expect from me, but he just painted things so well. To me it's not so much the genre but the way it's done, and you have to admire his technique."[2]

Career

At the age of 20, Brom started working full-time as a commercial illustrator. By age twenty-one, he had two national art representatives, and was doing work for such clients as

Warlords.[6]

In 1993, after four years at TSR, Brom returned to the freelance market, still specializing in the darker side of the roleplaying game, card game, and comic book genres.

Franklin Mint and paintings for novels (by Michael Moorcock, Terry Brooks, R.A. Salvatore, Edgar Rice Burroughs).[3]

Brom returned to TSR in 1998, doing paintings for the Alternity game, the AD&D role-playing game and its Forgotten Realms and Planescape lines, and covers for Dragon and Dungeon magazines.[2] His work is included in the book Masters of Dragonlance Art.[7] He has also returned to painting for book covers for TSR's successor Wizards of the Coast, including the covers for the War of the Spider Queen series and reprints of The Avatar Series.

In 2014, Scott Taylor of Black Gate, named Brom as #4 in a list of The Top 10 RPG Artists of the Past 40 Years, saying "Brom is arguably one of the greatest pure fantasy talents of his generation, and he still creates works just as sublime as he did in his 1990s glory."[8]

In 2019, he entered the

Origins Award Hall of Fame.[9]

Works

Books

  • Brom's Little Black Book
  • Offerings
  • Darkwerks: The Art of Brom (2000)
  • The Plucker (2005)
  • Metamorphosis (2007) (beinArt)
    ISBN 978-0-9803231-0-8
  • The Devil's Rose (2007)
  • The Child Thief (2009)[10]
  • Krampus the Yule Lord (2012)
  • The Art of Brom (2013) (Flesk)
    ISBN 978-1-933865-50-8
  • Lost Gods (2016)
  • Slewfoot (2021)

Novel covers

  • War of the Spider Queen: Dissolution
     (2003)
  • War of the Spider Queen: Insurrection
     (2003)
  • War of the Spider Queen: Condemnation
     (2004)
  • War of the Spider Queen: Extinction
     (2005)
  • War of the Spider Queen: Annihilation
     (2005)
  • War of the Spider Queen: Resurrection
     (2005)
  • "...and Their Memory Was a Bitter Tree..." (2008)

Movies (as concept artist)

Video game covers

Tabletop games

References

  1. ^ Miller, Stanley A. III (August 4, 2002). "Gen Con offerings still magical", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, p. E1.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Kenson, Stephen (October 1999). "Profiles: Brom". Dragon (#264): 112.
  3. ^ a b "Brom". Archived from the original on February 24, 2009.
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7
    .
  5. ^ "Heresy Cards by Artist". The Sendai Bubble. Archived from the original on 2003-12-10. Retrieved 2011-08-17.
  6. ^ Fawkner, Steve (September 2007). "Infinite Interactive's Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords", Game Developer 14 (8): 42.
  7. ^ D'Ammassa, Don (January 2003). "Masters of Dragonlance Art", Chronicle 25 (1): 30.
  8. ^ "Art of the Genre: The Top 10 RPG Artists of the Past 40 Years – Black Gate". 12 February 2014.
  9. ^ "Academy - Hall of Fame". www.originsawards.net.
  10. ^ "Black Gate » Articles » Art Evolution 16: Brom". 29 December 2010.
  11. ^ "Brom".
  12. ^ "Lilith at a BlizzCon 2019 Dark Gallery Tour".

External links

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