The cover for The Ursa Major Awards Anthology was commissioned and paid for by FurPlanet, the publisher. Neither the ALAA nor I had anything to do with it, except that I enthusiastically approved when Teiran told me that they wanted to get Blotch to do the cover, if Blotch would accept the commission.
I was responsible for sending the other publisher, Legion Printing & Publishing, to Roz Gibson for the cover of Already About Us, although I put them in contact with a half dozen or so Furry artists -- Sara Palmer, Dark Natasha Mleynek, Heather Bruton, Ursula Vernon, Blotch, Kacey Miyagami, some others -- whose work I like for the cover. Legion P&P is a new publisher in Birmingham, AL with no experience in Furry publishing. About the only preference that I gave Legion was that I did not want an abstract-art cover. If you look at any s-f anthology of the 1950s through the 1980s or so, most of the Hugo or Nebula winner volumes or the original-fiction series like Orbit and Stellar and Universe and so on, they had meaningless graphics that did not suggest anything. I do not know how many of the artists I recommended Legion actually contacted, but I am very happy with Roz's cover.
The cover for The Ursa Major Awards Anthology was commissioned and paid for by FurPlanet, the publisher. Neither the ALAA nor I had anything to do with it, except that I enthusiastically approved when Teiran told me that they wanted to get Blotch to do the cover, if Blotch would accept the commission.
I was responsible for sending the other publisher, Legion Printing & Publishing, to Roz Gibson for the cover of Already About Us, although I put them in contact with a half dozen or so Furry artists -- Sara Palmer, Dark Natasha Mleynek, Heather Bruton, Ursula Vernon, Blotch, Kacey Miyagami, some others -- whose work I like for the cover. Legion P&P is a new publisher in Birmingham, AL with no experience in Furry publishing. About the only preference that I gave Legion was that I did not want an abstract-art cover. If you look at any s-f anthology of the 1950s through the 1980s or so, most of the Hugo or Nebula winner volumes or the original-fiction series like Orbit and Stellar and Universe and so on, they had meaningless graphics that did not suggest anything. I do not know how many of the artists I recommended Legion actually contacted, but I am very happy with Roz's cover.
Fred Patten