Welcome to a selected portfolio about professional Art published in 2022! All these artwork are eligible for the 2023 Awards season… thanks for your consideration! (For the Credits, please read the captions under each image)

PAPERBACK COVER – “Mulberry and Owl” by Aliette de Bodard • Cover Art for “The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time #2″, edited by Allan Kaster • Client: INFINIVOX • Media: Digital. (Art © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)

MAGAZINE COVER – ‘Falling Off the Edge of the World’ • Cover Illustration for a story by Suzanne Palmer  • Client: Asimov’s SF Magazine/Penny Publications • November/December 2022 • Art Director: Charlie Iwanicki • Media: Digital. (Art © 2022 Maurizio Manzieri.)

MAGAZINE COVER – ‘Sacred Cow’ • Cover Illustration for a story by Larry Niven & Steven Barnes  • Client: Analog Science & Fact/Penny Publications • November/December 2022 • Art Director: Carly Iwanicki • Media: Digital. (Art © 2022 Maurizio Manzieri.)

PAPERBACK COVER – “The Egg Collectors” by Lavie Tidhar • Cover Art for “The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction #6″, edited by Allan Kaster • Client: INFINIVOX • Media: Digital. (Art © 2022 Maurizio Manzieri.)

MAGAZINE COVER – “Handmaid of Khepri, Heliopolis”  • Client: ROBOT/Delos Books • Winter 2022 • Media: Digital. (Art © 2022 Maurizio Manzieri.) • Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2022 Finalist

The American writer Dean Whitlock joins the team of experts in charge of exploring the planet Zarmina and will be staying with me at the government embassy. He will be a supervisor of the project and will help me in the translation of some relevant papyri and analysis of the legends about the divine history of Heliopolis. Welcome Dean!

WOW, I’m so honored! My work “Heliopolis: Handmaid of Khepri” has been chosen as one of the 25 iCanvas Digital Art Award Finalists of the 2022 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, an annual international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. This illustration is part of my ongoing art book project HELIOPOLIS. Thanks to the jurors, to the sponsor ponsor iCanvas and to Beautiful Bizarre Magazine for making my day so special!!!

Welcome to the ambitious art book project for HELIOPOLIS, CAPITAL OF THE GODS. This will be a temporary Base Camp, I’ve not yet decided what’s better for letting you know updates about this adventure. Would it be better to launch a newsletter rather than update this blog? Maybe I could open a Patreon page dedicated to the project? August is a fairly quiet time of the year, things will start moving more consistently in the fall. I started posting a taste of my visions on social media and immediately received many requests and private messages: does this book already exist? What is it about? When it comes out?

It seemed right to write this short message immediately and open a page dedicated to Heliopolis. Between one trip and another, for pleasure or for work, I will spend some time in Heliopolis  too and will carry on this story set in a unique and evocative place, one of the most beautiful in the known Universe. I’ll be here, on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, happy to share with you this path of creation. A big hug to everyone! Follow me!

Welcome to a selected portfolio about professional Art published in 2021! All these artwork are eligible for the 2022 Awards season… thanks for your consideration! (For the Credits, please read the captions under each image)

PRODUCT COVER – ‘The European Stargate’ • Official POSTER illustration for EUROCON 2021 • July 2021 • Media: Digital. (Art © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)

MAGAZINE COVER – ‘Broad Dutty Eater: A Sunken Story’ • Cover Illustration for a story by Nalo Hopkinson  • Client: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction • November/December 2021 • Art Director: Gordon Van Gelder • Media: Digital. (Art © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)

MAGAZINE COVER – ‘Hanai’ • Cover Illustration for a story by Greg Bossert  • Client: Asimov’s SF Magazine/Penny Publications • November/December 2021 • Art Director: Charlie Iwanicki • Media: Digital. (Art © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)

MAGAZINE COVER – ‘Flash Mob’ • Cover Illustration for a story by Meg Pontecorvo  • Client: Analog Science & Fact/Penny Publications • March/April 2021 • Art Director: Carly Iwanicki • Media: Digital. (Art © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)

PAPERBACK COVER – ‘The Bell Cannon Affair’ • Cover Illustration inspired to a novel by Dean Whitlock • Client: Boatman Press • May 2021 • Media: Digital. (Art and Cover Design © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)

HARDBACK COVER – ‘L’Assiro’ (The Assyrian) • Cover Illustration inspired to a novel by Nicholas Guild • Client: Fanucci Edizioni • May 2021 • Art Director: Franca Vitali • Media: Digital. (Art  © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)

PAPERBACK COVER – ‘La Traditrice del Silenzio’ • Cover Illustration inspired to a novel by Rebexcca Moro • Client: Rebecca Moro • May 2021 • Media: Digital. (Art © 2021 Maurizio Manzieri.)

This was one of the best commissions to date! Fantasy & Science Fiction contacted me saying: “We have a story that seems like it’s meant for a Maurizio Manzieri cover!”: I accepted immediately of course and here you can see the result for the lovely story “Starlight Express” by Michael Swanwick. The author dedicated an entry of his blog to the artwork: http://floggingbabel.blogspot.it/2017/08/starlight-express-by-maurizio-manzieri.html

I’m Guest of Honor for Fantasy Basel 2017, the Swiss Comic Con! You find me in Halle 2.2, Stand #568. Do not miss my panel on April 30, at 12pm, Podium 1, Messe Basel, titled: “Recipes for the Creation of a Fantastic Universe”.

Beginning the year with gooood news…! My artwork The Sassari Spaceport has been selected for inclusion in the volume INFECTED BY ART #5 (Hermes Press). So honored! Link: http://www.infectedbyart.com/iba5artist.asp?gid=8512

I’m very honored to announce my presence as a Guest of Honor at Sassari Comics and Games 2016. Here is the illustration realized for the official Poster of the Festival!

Wow, tight period, dear followers! Glad to announce that I’m a 2016 Italia Award Finalist for the Cover Art “Quel che Resta della Kronos” by Claudio Chillemi (Edizioni della Vigna)! Here the Italian Press Release with all the Finalists: http://www.fantascienza.com/21075/premio-italia-2016-record-di-votanti-ecco-i-finalisti

If you are followers of this blog, you are the first ones to know! A new coveted print “Alpha and Omega” by Patricia Briggs (published in 2009 by Subterranean Press in Usa and in 2010 by Bragelonne in France) has been made available at my INPRNT SHOP. They are all gallery-quality giclée art prints on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks. Click on the illustration to reach the shop: