Darkstorm Creative: The Works of Russell Dickerson

Gallery and convention art show representation
My art has been featured in these galleries and convention art shows:

Rendition Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado (2011-2012)

  • It’s Alive show, October 2011
  • Kickflip! show, January 2012

Jerry’s Artarama, Fort Collins, Colorado (2011)
OnDisplay Gallery
, Fort Collins, Colorado (2010-2011)
VisionCon, Springfield, Missouri (2010, 2011)
The Gallery Underground, Fort Collins, Colorado (2010)


Conventions (attendee, guest, and/or participant):

Spectrum Fantastic Art Live!, Kansas City, Missouri (2012)
World Horror Convention, Austin, Texas (2011)
Horrorfest, Denver, Colorado (2011)
VisionCon, Springfield, Missouri (2009-2011; guest 2010-2011)
KillerCon, Las Vegas, Nevada (2009)
Necon, Roger Williams University, Rhode Island (2007)
Hypericon, Nashville, Tennessee (2006)


List of publications for writing
Along with being an artist, I also have articles and stories published here and there.

Shotgun Honey
Visit Shotgun Honey at www.shotgunhoney.net
The Body in the Window (2011)

Apex Magazine Online Blog (2010-2012)
Visit Apex at www.apexbookcompany.com
Jan 2010 – My God, What a Stupid Looking Cover
Feb 2010 – WTF? Really? You can’t just tell me who the artist is?
Mar 2010 – Sure you can steal from me! Art? Sure! First born? Why not?
Apr 2010 – Why the hell would I help you? You’ll steal all my ideas!
May 2010 – Here at the end of all things
June 2010 – Life, liberty, and the pursuit of—Hey! Why aren’t you mowing the lawn?
July 2010 – Practice is for losers
Aug 2010 – Yes, I can do that same piece of art over and over and over and…
Sept 2010 – You’re the worst artist in the world. You’re a cotton headed ninnymuggins.
Oct 2010 – My color wheel is broken, I only get gray
Nov 2010 – How could you charge that much for that art? It’s not like it took you that long, right?
Dec 2010 – Those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat
February 2011 – The Pixar Moment
March 2011 – Giving Away Your Children
April 2011 – Failure is only the opportunity to begin again
May 2011 – The Deflowered Wallflower
June 2011 – The Drive-in and the truth of experience
July 2011 – Beaten to death on the social network
August 2011 – The perception of worms
September 2011 – For the love of the game
October 2011 – There are no Saturdays
November 2011 – Mirror Mirror On The Wall
December 2011 – Tiptoeing through the garden of evil
January 2012 – It’s the end of the world as we know it. Where’s my pen?

 


List of publications for art

This list isn’t perfect yet, I’m working on updating it as I find more information on everything. These are the illustrations that I did for published works.

Spectrum 9 (2002)
Original art from Wicked Hollow #1, Fetal Position

Enigmatic Tales #8-9 (1999-2000)
Sap by Kay Fletcher
Mallory by Peter Wykes
The White Hands by Mark Samuels (didn’t print)

Sap, Enigmatic Tales

Enigmatic Tales #8

Dead Things #2-4 (1999-2000)
(including cover of #4)
Fallen Through by John Paul Cotton
Expressions by Robert D. Rowntree
The Geek by D.J. Tyrer
Reflections of Misery by Cathy Buburuz
The Hexing by Michael Pendragon
First Wave Exterminate by Paul Finch
Ghost? by Steven Wright
The Prisoner of London by Martyn Prince

Mindmares #8-9 (1999-2000)
Blood Alley by Christopher Stires
Down in the Basement by Tom Draheim
Foreshadows of Change by Shikar Dixit

Roadworks #9-12, 14, 16 (2000-2003)
On a Clear Day by Matt Smith
Cover of #14, The Courtesy of Guests by Jay Lake
Bodies of Water by Tim Groome
Sunset Over Sybaris by Vincent Lynch
Cybersoul by Steve Redwood
Boneman by Simon Logan
Lawn by Kay Fletcher
Idiopathic Condition Red by Paul Pinn
Windigo by Cliff Burns
The Passing of Guests by Jay Lake

The Dream Zone #7 (2000)
Rooting the Bush by Jill McGroarty
The Tower of Wisdom by David Price

Dueling Minds (July-Aug. 2000)
Until Death Do Us Part image used for stories

Redsine (Print, 2000)
Art originally created for print version #3
(didn’t print):
Unseen by Adam Hodgkiss
Nightbugs by Christopher Stires
Blue Reasoning by Robert N. Stephenson
The Fleshing Rooms by Paul Joyce

Redsine Online (February 2001)
The Last Honor
Those in the Darkness

Wicked Hollow #1-8 (2001-2004)
Parting the Veils by Richard Gavin
Fetal Position by Joel Arnold (also in Spectrum 9)
To die on a cold, blue world by Justin Stanchfield
The Wholesome Scent Of Cedar by Darren Speegle
The Samhain Incident by Michael Greenhut
Cold Cash by Tim Curran
Frost Carnival by Benjamin Coleman
Return on the Downward Road by Sonya Taaffe
Gnaw by Peter Hynes

Flesh & Blood #8 (2001)
A Thousand Floors, A Thousand Sounds by Mary Sass

Legend #1-5 (2001-2002)
Come the Hour by David Gullen
A Little Onwards (Chapters 1-4) by David Gullen
Also cover of #5 based on A Little Onwards

Unhinged Online #1-4 (2001-2002)
Alice on Wonderland by Staci Layne Wilson
Rattle of the Snake Bone Drum by Sean Russell Friend
Gaia Sings by Gaie Sebold
The Calgary Beggar by Peter Tennant

Incubusvane Publishing (2002)
Dark Karma (Chapbook cover)

Underworlds Magazine #1-2 (2002-2003)
Small Towns in May by Denise Dumars
Illusions of Amber by Darren Speegle
Something Must Break by C.S. Thompson
Familiar Child by Tom Piccirilli

Created for Underworlds #3-5, never published
A View From The Lake By Greg F. Gifune
Wrapped in plastic By Simon Logan
Mourning With The Bones Of The Dead By Gerard Houarner
The Wound Dresser By Lavie Tidhar
The Shaping By Scott Nicholson
Last Exit To Darlington By D.G.K. Goldberg
Cry Quietly By C.S. Thompson
Heart’s Hole By Gemma Files
Periphery By Kurt Newton
Tomato As A Metaphor By T.M. Wright
Crime Movies By Brian Hodge
Hey, Joe. How’s It Been? By C.S. Thompson

Prism/British Fantasy Society (2003-2005)
captantes capti sumus, interior
Harrowfield by Neil Williamson
The Ones We Leave Behind By Mark Chadbourn
Dark Horizons #47  (cover)

Dark Animus #2-8 (2003-2004)
Death of a Thousand Papercuts by Christna Sng
Wood on Bone by Josh Rountree
Womb of Night by Lawrence Schmel & Billie Sue Mosiman
Children of the First Explorers by Christina Sng
Flesh by Darrell Pitt
To Die Dreaming by Sam W.Anderson
Bloodbath by Lee Clark Zumpe

Cemetery Dance #40, 46 (2002-2003)
Ghosts Through Her Eyes by
Jack Fisher & Gene – Michael Higney
Solitaire by Kathryn Ptacek
The Secret of Club 262 by James Baker
Things by Lawrence C. Connolly

Underworlds #1-2 (2002-2004)
Small Towns in May by Denise Dumars
Familiar Child by Tom Piccirilli
Something Must Break by C.S. Thompson
Illusions of Amber by Darren Speegle

At the turn of midnight | cover, Midnight Street #1

At the turn of midnight | cover, Midnight Street #1

City Slab #2-4 (2003-2004)
Children at Play by Brandon Alspaugh
Repeat Performance by Patricia D. Cacek
Darkness Comprehended by Harry Shannon & Gord Rollo
When You Came To Troy by Sonya Taaffe

Midnight Street #1, #3, #10 (2003-2007)
cover, Midnight Street #1
cover, Midnight Street #10, based on Ghosts by Al Robertson
Jack’s House by Jay Lake
Old Wounds by Andrew Humphrey
The Colour of Water by Rosanne Rabinowitz
The Machine of a Religious Man by Ralph Robert Moore

Blindside Press (2003)
Wicked Gluttony: Forever Lovers by Shawn James (chapbook interiors)

Cyberpulp USA (2003)
Down These Dark Streets (anthology, cover)
Dark Streets After Hours (anthology, cover)

Catalyst Books (2003)
Cold House by T.M Wright (Cover)
From Beneath These Fields of Blood by Gary Braunbeck (unpublished, cover)

Dark Animus #2-5 (2003-2004)
Death of a Thousand Papercuts by Christina Sng
The Womb of Night by Lawrence Schimel & Billie Sue Mosiman
Wood On Bone by Josh Rountree
Children of the First Explorers by Christina Sng
Flesh by Darrell Pitt
to die dreaming by Sam Anderson

Horror Express Chapbooks(2004)
Come on in and join us by Guy N. Smith (Chapbook cover & interiors)

Horror Saves Lives: Four Authors Unite to Fight Cancer
(2004)
The Bloodspawn by Michael McBride (e-book Cover)

Not One of Us Magazine #32-35 (2004-2006)
Another Coming by Sonya Taaffe
Stone, and Brass by Jennifer Rachel Baumer
The End of the Road By Brent Knowles
The Crying Queen by Lila Garrott

Horror Express Magazine #2-5 (2000-2006)
Cover, #4
Shellshocked by Tim Johnson
No One To Run With by John Messier
Ice Maidens of Rattling Brooke by Douglas E Wright
Danse Macabre by Christopher M. Cevasco
The Glass Cross by Douglas E Wright
The Boy at the Gate by Barry J. House

Cemetery Dance Publications (2004)
Eyes of the Carp by T.M. Wright

Surreal Magazine #1, #5 (2004-2006)
The Reaching Ones, Cover, #1
Grandpa’s Flesh by Bonnie Mercure
Fear of Flying By David Niall Wilson

British Fantasy Society Calendars: (2004-2005)
2004: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Dragon by Neil Gaiman
2005:  The Bucket Woman by Stephen Gallagher

Silver Lake Publishing (2003-2005)
Dying Days by Eric S. Brown (Cover)
Miller’s Hill by Mathias Mann (Cover)
Children of Winter by Alice Millais (Cover)

Undaunted Press (2003-2004)
Grimm Awakening by Bryan Smith (cover)
Bad Mojo (cover) by Eric S. Brown, John Grover & Jason Brannon
Under the Skin (cover & interiors) by Bryan Smith
Dark Harvest (cover) by William P. Simmons & Paul Melniczek
Vicious Shivers – Anthology (cover)

Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest #4 (2005)
Walk Among Us by Bryan Smith

Tim Lebbon’s Noreela Website
art based on the novel Dusk, “a quiet respite from the darkness”

Subterranean Press (2006)
Night Visions 12 (cover), based on Frankenstein, Victor by Simon Clark
My God, My God by Simon Clark (unpublished)
What Nature Abhors by Mark Morris (unpublished)
Campfire Story by P.D. Cacek (unpublished)

Horror Express Graphic Novel (2007)
The Attic by Marc Shemmans

Naked Snake Press (2008)
A Beckoning of Shadows by John Grover (cover)

In the Wrong World

In the Wrong World

Cemetery Dance Magazine #61 & #63 (2009-2010)
Variations on a Theme from Seinfeld by Peter Straub
Memories by Peter Crowther

Cemetery Dance Publications (2010-2012)
Scratch by Brian Keene (Cover and Interiors)
DePompa by William F. Nolan, Dark Delicacies
Vortex by Ray Garton (Cover and Interiors)
Four Ghosts (Interiors)
Four Killers  (Interiors)
Dereliction by Ray Garton (Cover)

Sideshow Press (2010)
Postcards From Purgatory (chapbook) by Sam W. Anderson
On You; In You
If Mama Ain’t Happy (unpublished)

Maelstrom/Thunderstorm Books (2010-2011)
Covers, foil design, and Signature Sheets
Six Days by Kelli Owen
The Rising: Deliverance by Brian Keene
A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene
Foil Design
KillerCon by William Ollie (plus endpaper)
A Conspiracy of One by Brian Keene
Alone by Brian Keene
Once Upon a Time in Midnight by John Urbancik

Dark Regions Press (2011)
Foil Design
Multiplex Fandango by Weston Ochse

Independent authors and electronic books
Cover art and cover design, Fleshbags by Gerald Rice (2011; ebook)
Cover art and cover design, Knock Knock by S.P. Miskowski (2011, ebook; 2012, print)


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