Leo and Diane Dillon

Leo and Diane Dillon are an American husband and wife team of illustrators. Among their awards are two consecutive Caldecott Medals for the children's books Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People's Ears and Ashanti To Zulu: African Traditions.

Leo was raised in Brooklyn, and Diane (née Sorber) in the Los Angeles area. They met at the Parsons School of Design in New York City in 1953, some time after Diane moved from California to New York. They graduated from Parsons in 1956, and eventually married in March 1957. They describe their work as incorporating motifs derived from their respective heritages. They have worked on both on children's literature and adult paperbacks. An association with writer Harlan Ellison led to jobs doing book covers for his short story collections and both cover and interior woodcut illustration for his anthology Dangerous Visions. They illustrated a large number of book covers for the original Ace Science Fiction Specials.

A detailed biography and introduction to their work and styles was written by Byron Preiss in a book he edited in 1981, The Art of Leo & Diane Dillon.

Contents

Education

Freelance Work (Began in 1958)

Clients: Ladies Home Journal • Saturday Evening Post • Bantam Books • Time/Life Books The Washington Post • Ballentine Books • Franklin Library • Caedmon Records • Lodestar RCA Victor • Revlon • New York Telephone • Viking • Dutton • Dial • John F. Kennedy Center Harcourt Brace Jovanovich • Scholastic and Others

Picture books illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon

Chapter books illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon

Awards

References

  1. ^ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "“Award Winners and Nominees”". http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/. Retrieved 04 Feb 2011. 

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