About

Charles as drawn by Jeff Jones in 1995.

Charles Keegan has painted covers for Tor, Meisha Merlin, Baen Books and Del Rey as well as poster and card art for AEG’s “Doomtown” card game, and drawn interior work for Larry Elmore’s Sovereign Stone roleplaying game manuals.  Among his projects for Tor have been cover art for Tides of Darkness by Judith Tarr and Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series released by Starscape, Tor’s young adult line.  Another Tor project includes the cover painting for a new Conan novel by Harry Turtledove.  Projects for Meisha Merlin include art for Chains of Destruction by Selina Rosen and Parliament of Owls by Elizabeth Hilgartner.  The international gaming company Data Becker released “Highland Warriors” with a box cover featuring Charles’ art.  Charles also produces his own line of art prints.

His paintings have been accepted into Spectrum: the Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art for several years.  Spectrum 8 included the painting “Held by Honor,” a piece which won Best in Show at the 2000 World Fantasy Convention in Corpus Christi, Texas and is now on the cover of Fire Logic by Laurie Marks (Tor, 2002).  Charles received a Judges Choice Award at the 1998 World Con Art Show and has been twice nominated for a Chesley Award.

As a youth, Charles was strongly influenced by the writings of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard.  Years of martial arts training, fencing, modern dance and SCA fighting have given him an understanding of physical activity that greatly enhances his work at the drawing board.  In January 1997 Charles appeared fighting with live steel in Discovery Channel’s "Deadly Duels: Duels of Chivalry" with internationally recognized edged-weapons expert Hank Reinhardt.

Trained at the National Academy of Design and Art Students League of New York, he lives in Atlanta with his wife, Heather.