Faeries is a book written and illustrated by English artists Brian Froud and Alan Lee. An illustrated compendium of faerie mythology, legends and folklore, [3] the book explores the history, customs and habitat of faeries in the manner of a field guide, [4] complete with hand annotations. Balrog Awards 1979". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Archived from the original on 4 August 2019 . Retrieved 12 March 2020. Brian & Wendy Froud". Wall Street International. 29 September 2014. Archived from the original on 13 March 2020 . Retrieved 13 March 2020. Stableford, Brian (2009) [First published 2005 as Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature]. The A to Z of Fantasy Literature. Historical Dictionaries. Scarecrow Press. p.213. ISBN 978-0-8108-6345-3.

Barder, Ollie (27 January 2019). " 'Brian Froud's World of Faerie' Book Review: A Wonderful Collection Of Fascinating Fantasy Art". Forbes. Archived from the original on 24 December 2019 . Retrieved 23 March 2020. Froud was born in Winchester, England in 1947. [2] An only child, he grew up in rural Hampshire [11] before moving to Kent. [12] In 1967 he enrolled as a painter at Maidstone College of Art, where he graduated with a first class honors diploma in Graphic Design in 1971. [13] Career [ edit ] Lambinus, Gene (22 February 1981). "Television Week". The New York Times. p.GU3. ProQuest 121868770. In 1995, Froud won the Hugo Award for Best Original Artwork for his illustrations in Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book, a collaboration with writer Terry Jones. [3] The book also won the Chesley Award for Best Interior Illustration, and Froud was also nominated that year for the Chesley Award for Artistic Achievement. [4] For The Wise Woman, Froud won a certificate in the 1995 Spectrum Award for Best Book. [57] British Fantasy Awards 1979". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Archived from the original on 27 October 2019 . Retrieved 24 December 2019.

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Herald, Diana Tixier (1999). Fluent in Fantasy: A Guide to Reading Interests. Libraries Unlimited. p.147. ISBN 978-1-56308-655-7. Henson, Jim (16–24 January 1978). "1/16-24/1978 – 'Brian Froud comes to NY to live and work – have 1st series of meetings on Froud film.' ". Jim Henson's Red Book. Archived from the original on 16 August 2014 . Retrieved 24 June 2020.Faeries was the basis of a 1981 animated special of the same name directed by Lee Mishkin that appeared on CBS in the United States. Henson Associates were the merchandising agents for Faeries. [35]

Gregory, Rhys (7 December 2019). "World Renowned Artists And Designers Inspire Next Generation Of Creatives". Wales247.co.uk . Retrieved 21 September 2020. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2010-11-22 20:58:46 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA131915 Boxid_2 CH105001 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor original paintings and artwork onto these oversized cards. Intricate and extremely detailed, each cardGarth, John (28 May 2017). "The man who brings Tolkien to life". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 16 March 2020. a b c d "Brian Froud". DarkCrystal.com. The Jim Henson Company. Archived from the original on 26 August 2019 . Retrieved 9 September 2019. The Goblins of Labyrinth (1986) (reissued in abridged form as The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins (1986) THE LIGHT FANTASTIC". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. 3 December 1978. p.E10. ProQuest 146850547. Froud stated that while planning the book, he and Lee intended to make their artwork indistinguishable from the other's, and to "actually draw on top of each other's art." Due to time constraints, however, they were unable to do it in such a way. Instead, they each chose what they wanted to illustrate and divided the work between them, taking into account one another's artistic strengths and weaknesses. Froud said, "We also made sure there were a few images that were absolutely a crossover, so I was partly in his style and he was partly in my style." [17] Style [ edit ] Lee's illustration for the entry "Faerie Rades" was inspired by John Duncan's 1911 painting The Riders of the Sidhe (above), according to Dimitra Fimi. [18]

Falk, Karen (2012). Imagination Illustrated: The Jim Henson Journal. Chronicle Books. p.108. ISBN 978-1-4521-2462-9. Hunter, Stephen (10 December 1978). "Books of wonder, books of light...". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p.D5. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020 . Retrieved 19 August 2020– via Newspapers.com. a b "2020 Concept Art Awards Presented by Lightbox Expo". Concept Art Association . Retrieved 2 November 2020. Sierra, Gabrielle (27 September 2011). "Animazing Gallery of SoHo To Exhibit THE FROUDS: VISIONS FOR FILM & FAERIE". Broadway World. Archived from the original on 4 November 2011 . Retrieved 20 November 2021. For his illustrations in Terry Windling's novel, The Wood Wife, Froud was nominated for the BSFA Award for Best Artwork in 1998. [58] The following year, for his artwork in Good Faeries/Bad Faeries, another collaboration with Windling, Froud won his second Chesley Award for Best Interior Illustration [5] (he has been a finalist six times through to 2008). [51]

Sharing lodging in Chagford on the edge of Dartmoor, [14] Lee and Froud spent nine months researching, illustrating and writing the book. [3] They referred to the work of leading British folklorist Katharine Briggs as one of their main sources for information about faeries. [15] Other sources include 19th-century folklorists such as Robert Hunt's Popular Romances of the West of England (1865) and Lady Wilde's Ancient Legends of Ireland (1887), as well as stories from the Middle Ages such as those told by Gerald of Wales. [16] According to Froud, Ballantine had "expected a fun, jolly book with fluffy faeries, and what he got were all these green horrible creatures with nasty teeth that bit your ankles, and he was horrified. But our research was based on folklore and on what faeries were really like." [15] Von Elfen, Goblins, Spukgestalten: Ein Handbuch der anderen Welt, nach alten Quellen erschlossen und aufgezeichnet ( Of Elves, Goblins, Ghostly Figures: A Handbook of the Other World, developed and recorded from ancient sources) (1996 hardcover) by Hildesheim: Gebrüder, ISBN 978-3-8067-2895-8 Locus Awards 1979". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Archived from the original on 20 August 2019 . Retrieved 10 March 2020. Heffley, Lynne (22 October 1998). "A Very Full 'Hollow' ". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 13 March 2020 . Retrieved 13 March 2020. Froud's artwork in Once Upon a Time and The Land of Froud brought him to the attention of Jim Henson, who sought out Froud to collaborate on his all-puppetry film The Dark Crystal. [22] [23] Froud served as the conceptual designer of The Dark Crystal, released in 1982. The same year, his concept art for the film was published in the companion book The World of the Dark Crystal. [24] Froud was also the conceptual designer for Henson's next feature film, Labyrinth, released in 1986, [25] as well as for the pilot episode of Henson's television series The Storyteller, first aired in 1987. [26] Following his collaborations with Henson, Froud's filmography continued; as a designer for the 1989 Japanese animated film Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland; [27] as a visual consultant on the 2000 American animated film The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus [13] and P. J. Hogan’s 2003 live-action film Peter Pan; [28] and as a concept artist on the 2016 Disney film Pete's Dragon. [29] Froud returned to working with the Jim Henson Company as the primary conceptual designer of the 2019 Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, a prequel to The Dark Crystal. [30] [31]