I illustrate the popular "Honor Herrington" series for Baen Books, and I have done several of James Hogan's books, including "Bug Park." I painted the latest re-packaging of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Pellucidar" books for Ballentine Books, and 30 or so covers for the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series for Bantam books. I have done over 600 science fiction, young adult and fantasy covers for most major publishers of science fiction and fantasy, including Baen, Bantam, DAW, Del Rey, Dell, Marvel, Omni, Playboy, Signet, and Tor Books.
After school in my home town of Fort Collins, Colorado, I attended the Colorado Institute of Art, Colorado State University and later transferred to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.īesides Animorphs, what other books have you painted covers for? I thought for a long time that I might like to become a comic book artist, but in the process of going through art school I found I was better at painting than drawing longer, narrative work. I began drawing and painting as a small child, influenced by comic books, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. How old were you when you began drawing and painting? Mattingly, Cover Artist, chats with MORPHz!Ī while back, we managed to get contact with David Mattingly and, thankfully, he turned out to be a really nice guy and agreed to answer some questions for us. The originals can still be found online or through the the wayback machine: ( MORPHz), Some edits have been made for clarity and non-animorphs related information has been removed. These three interviews are relatively short, and they are here combined into one post. While he wasn't responsible for deciding what went on each cover, he photographed and illustrated them. David Mattingly was the cover artist for Books #3-54, as well as the four Megamorphs books, and most of the promotional art.