a b c "Brian Froud". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Archived from the original on 3 August 2019 . Retrieved 10 March 2020. Nominees". worldfantasy.org. World Fantasy Convention. Archived from the original on 8 December 2019 . Retrieved 24 December 2019. 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] Spelled in the archaic fashion, the title faeries refers not just to fairies, but encompasses a wide range of mythological creatures including goblins, dwarves, pixies, elves, leprechauns, ogres, boggarts, banshees, mermaids and selkies. [7] [8]

Froud was honoured by the World Fantasy Convention with a nomination for the World Fantasy Award for Best Artist in 1991, and again four years later. [56] New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art". The New York Times Book Review. Vol.2. 1979. p.L. 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 ]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. Wheeler, Gem (28 August 2019). "The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance's designer on 'a purer form of puppetry' ". Den of Geek. Archived from the original on 16 August 2020 . Retrieved 25 June 2020.

The book's contents include information about faerie archaeology, history, characteristics and customs, a geography of Faerieland, and a catalogue of faerie types. [7] It also gives in-universe advice on where faeries are most likely to be found, how to ward off faerie spells, when it is especially dangerous to come across faeries, and the ecology of faery-plant interactions. [9] Although the book's historical information covers folklore from around the world, most of the facts, poetry and literature of faeries come from France, England, Scotland and Ireland. [10] Included amongst Lee and Froud's text are Celtic legends and ballads about faeries, as well as excerpts from poems about faeries by poets such as William Butler Yeats and Christina Rossetti. [7] The only thing i had an issue with was the handwriting - I would've appreciated if they made it a bit more readable or used some font instead.Gregory, Rhys (7 December 2019). "World Renowned Artists And Designers Inspire Next Generation Of Creatives". Wales247.co.uk . Retrieved 21 September 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. In the late 1980s, Froud formed an artistic-literary partnership with Terry Jones, who was a screenwriter on Labyrinth. Together they produced The Goblins of Labyrinth (1986), a companion book containing Froud's concept art for the film, [32] [33] and subsequently a number of non- Labyrinth-related books about fairies and goblins. Their Lady Cottington series parodied the Cottingley Fairies phenomenon. [1] For his artwork in the first book of the series, Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book (1994), Froud won the Hugo Award for Best Original Artwork [3] and the Chesley Award for Best Interior Illustration. [4] Four years later, Froud was a nominee at the 1983 Hugo Awards in the category of Best Non-Fiction Book for The World of the Dark Crystal, for which Froud was the illustrator in a partnership with writer J. J. Llewellyn. [53] The World of the Dark Crystal won fifth place in the 1983 Locus Award for Best Nonfiction/Reference Book. [54] The same year, Froud was also nominated for the Balrog Award for Best Artist. [55]