Leo & Diane Dillon
Born in the same year (indeed, within a few days of one another) on different US coasts, American artists Leo Dillon and Diane Sorber met at Parsons School of Design in New York City in 1954. Their collaboration became a relationship and, in 1957, a marriage, and decades of artistic production followed, for a variety of outets and publishers. In the 1990s Leo Dillon noted: ‘people often comment on the “Dillon style.” I think that someplace, the two of us made a pact with each other. We both decided that we would give up the essence of ourselves, that part that made the art each of us did our own. And I think that in doing that we opened the door to everything.’ They are particularly associated with award-winning cover-art for children’s literature. Their SF and Fantasy art is a major part of their oeuvre not least because they designed the covers of a number of classic genre titles. Above is their cover for the first edition of Harlan Ellison’s seminal collection Dangerous Vision...