A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 2026 Calendar

George R. R. Martin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including those of the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire—A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons—as well as Tuf Voyaging, Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag, Dying of the Light, Windhaven (with Lisa Tuttle), and Dreamsongs Volumes I and II. He is also the creator of The Lands of Ice and Fire, a collection of maps featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts, The World of Ice & Fire (with Elio M. García, Jr., and Linda Antonsson), and Fire & Blood, the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros, with illustrations by Doug Wheatley. As a writer-producer, he has worked on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and pilots that were never made. He lives with the lovely Parris in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

By 1982, Tom Kidd had transitioned from starving artist to thriving illustrator and, in the many subsequent years, has worked consistently for companies and publishers worldwide, creating book covers, illustrated volumes of classic literature, concept art for movies, and paintings for this calendar. His art has won him a World Fantasy Award, eight Chesley Awards, and many other accolades. Tom has authored four books: The Tom Kidd Sketchbook, Kiddography: The Art & Life of Tom Kidd, OtherWorlds, and Fantastic Dragons and How to Draw Them. Tom is the official artist for the “1632” series of alternate history books by Eric Flint and others published by Baen Books, for which he has done over 40 covers. For Subterranean Press, he illustrated Songs of Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, as well as a deluxe edition of Vance’s Dying Earth and the Book of Babel series by Josiah Bancroft. His work for Centipede Press includes Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber (part of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series), the first book of the Kane series Dark Crusade by Karl Edward Wagner, and a deluxe illustrated edition of Elric: Fortress of the Pearl by Michael Moorcock. He recently illustrated The Last Unicorn for Suntup Editions and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne for Conversation Tree Press. His favorite and most time-consuming obsession is an unpublished illustrated book called Gnemo: Airships, Adventure, Exploration. Tom’s story, The Sketcher, is his first published work of fiction and appears in the book Overruled. You can see an alliterative selection of his art here: https://tomkidd.myportfolio.com