Emmanuel (artist)

Emmanuel is the name used by artist Emmanuel Papadopoulos (c. 1946[1]-June 2026[2]), best known for illustrating fantasy role-playing games in the 1980s.

Career

Emmanuel's works have included covers and illustrations for early issues of White Dwarf magazine,[3][4][5] as well as illustrations for Imagine.[6] Emmanuel also supplied the cover and several interior illustrations for the original Fiend Folio (1981),[7] and regarding the cover Steve Jackson in 2022 noted that he "commissioned Emmanuel to paint the famous Githyanki cover and I'm still the proud owner of the original painting."[8] Emmanuel also illustrated the cover for the Puffin Books edition of the Fighting Fantasy gamebook The Citadel of Chaos (1983).

References

  1. ↑ Langford, David. "Ansible® 469, August 2026". Ansible. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  2. ↑ Ian Livingstone (2026-06-26). "Publication by Ian Livingstone". Facebook..
  3. ↑ "White Dwarf # 023". 3 February 1981.
  4. ↑ "White Dwarf Magazine (001-100)". June 1977.
  5. ↑ "White Dwarf #040". June 1983.
  6. ↑ "Imagine Magazine 06".
  7. ↑ "TSR 02012 Fiend Folio".
  8. ↑ Livingstone, Ian; Jackson, Steve (2022). "Independence Day". Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop. London: Unbound. ISBN 978-1-80018-052-9. Retrieved 2024-01-07 – via Internet Archive.