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SMS lives in Lancashire in a house that is bigger on the inside than on the outside. He illustrates for a number of science fiction magazines, most notably Interzone, where he has topped the reader's poll as favourite artist many times. He also won the 1997 British Science Fiction Award for best artwork. Work on comic strips includes 'ABC Warriors' for 2000AD, an adaptation of the Clive Barker Hellraiser story 'Original Sin', and most recently architectural backgrounds for Bryan Talbot's graphic novel 'Heart of Empire'.
Jim Porter is a self taught artist, living and working in South Yorkshire. Although he has been known to paint the real world when offered sufficient inducement, he prefers to create his own surreal worlds where the landscape merges with its inhabitants, and the divisions between fauna and flora become indistinct. He too has illustrated for Interzone, among other publications.

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