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Randy Broecker (b. 1951) was born and lives in Chicago, Illinois. Having an older brother who, when not hitting him in the back of the head with a rolled-up newspaper, would bring home and share pulps and EC comics was a great help in shaping him into the monster- and art-loving illustrator he is today. When his brother’s friend, Rich Hauser, published Spa-Fon in the 1960s, Broecker’s first published art appeared in that highly revered EC fanzine. Many years later, a meeting with publisher Donald M. Grant at the second World Fantasy Convention eventually led in 1979 to The Black Wolf and his first hardcover illustrations. Since then his artwork has appeared in books published by Cemetery Dance, Underwood-Miller, Highland Press, Robinson Publishing, Carroll & Graf, Pumpkin Books, Fedogan and Bremer, American Fantasy, Sarob Press, PS Publishing and other imprints on both sides of the Atlantic. He was Artist Guest of Honor at the 2002 World Horror Convention and is the author of the World Fantasy Award-nominated study Fantasy of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History from Collector’s Press, which also formed part of a three-in-one omnibus entitled Art of Imagination: 20th Century Visions of Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy.