Frank Wu
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- This article is about the sci-fi artist. For the racial and legal scholar, see Frank H. Wu.
Frank Wu is a science fiction and fantasy artist living in Palo Alto. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist in 2004, 2006, and 2007; he was previously nominated in 2002 and 2003. He also won the Grand Prize (the Gold Award) in the Illustrators of the Future contest in 2002. In 2008 he was nominated for a fourth Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist, but declined the nomination.
He works in many media, including acrylic and digital painting. He created a portrait of a Klingon girl for the documentary about the Klingon language, Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water. He is a regular contributor to science fiction webzines, such as "The Drink Tank."
In addition to being an artist, Dr. Wu holds a Ph.D. in bacterial genetics from University of Wisconsin-Madison, though his dayjob is in patent law. He is also a member of BASFA, the Bay Area Science Fiction Association.
[edit] External links
- Frank Wu's LiveJournal Blog
- Frank Wu's Homepage
- Frank Wu at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Guidolon the Giant Space Chicken Official Website and on YouTube
- Frank Wu at the Internet Movie Database
- Home Page of Chris Garcia's "Drink Tank"
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