Tim Kirk

Tim Kirk is a five-time winner of the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist, the most prestigious awards in science fiction and fantasy. He was the winner in 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, and in 1976. He has been additionally nominated numerous other times. Of other Hugo nominees, only Brad W. Foster has won the award as many times as Kirk has. He was the senior designer of Tokyo DisneySea. Previously, he was an Imagineer for Walt Disney, and an illustrator for Hallmark Cards.

He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts with an emphasis in Commercial Art, and his Master’s degree in Illustration from California State University, Long Beach. His thesis project consisted of illustrations for "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien, and was published by Ballantine Books as the 1975 Tolkien Calendar. Today, Kirk runs Kirk Design, Inc., a design firm in the Los Angeles, California area. He sits on the advisory board of the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame.^[1]