James Warhola

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James Warhola (born March 16, 1955) is an artist and illustrator living in upstate New York. He is the nephew of artist Andy Warhol and worked for him, for a while at Interview Magazine. He left that job to become a science fiction illustrator, something his uncle expressed his disgust with in his Diaries. As science fiction illustrator in the early eighties he was known for dense, heavily textured covers which were part of a move away from the more abstracted covers of Richard M. Powers and Jack Gaughan which had been popular ten years before. He is also a part of MAD magazine's "Usual Gang of Idiots" and illustrates articles and covers for them. Since that time he has been illustrating children's books and in 2003 published Uncle Andy's about his famous uncle.