SMS
Entry updated 6 September 2024. Tagged: Artist.
(1959- ) Working name of UK artist Simon M Short, active in Fanzines, Small Presses and Semiprozines from the 1980s; he has used the phonetic rendition "Smuzz" since 2009. An early book cover or pair of covers was for Brian Stableford's The Cosmic Perspective / Custer's Last Stand (1985 chap dos). After producing two avant-garde covers for Back Brain Recluse in 1986 and 1987, SMS became strongly associated with Interzone from 1987 to 2007, contributing many black-and-white internal illustrations plus seventeen vividly imagined colour covers 1991-2004. His cover painting for Interzone #116 (February 1997) received a BSFA Award for best artwork. [DRL]
see also: Eastercon.
Simon M Short
born Southampton, Hampshire: 17 August 1959
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