Arnie Fenner

Arnie Fenner has worn a number of creative hats in his career, sometimes several at once. He was a Senior Artist for Hallmark Cards for nineteen years and for the past twenty- two has been the Senior Art Director for Andrews McMeel Publishing (a division of Universal Press Syndicate). While working in the corporate world, he has also (as time permitted) been a junior partner in the Jankus/Tiber advertising agency, served as art director for Mark Ziesing Books and Underwood Books, been a small...See more

Arnie Fenner has worn a number of creative hats in his career, sometimes several at once. He was a Senior Artist for Hallmark Cards for nineteen years and for the past twenty- two has been the Senior Art Director for Andrews McMeel Publishing (a division of Universal Press Syndicate). While working in the corporate world, he has also (as time permitted) been a junior partner in the Jankus/Tiber advertising agency, served as art director for Mark Ziesing Books and Underwood Books, been a small press publisher (of both books and magazines), and worked as a freelance illustrator and designer. Fenner has produced many CD and book covers over the years, for titles by everyone from Stephen King to Harlan Ellison to Bob Dylan to R.E.M.; he has received two silver medals from the Society of Illustrators, certificates from Communication Arts and Arts & Letters, ten Locus Awards, and two World Fantasy Awards. He's also been nominated for the Eisner and Hugo Awards. Arnie has collaborated with his wife, Cathy Fenner, on a number of art books (including retrospectives devoted to Frank Frazetta, Dave Stevens, and Robert McGinnis, among others); the couple has appeared in the art documentaries Frank Frazetta: Painting with Fire and Making It and served as producers of Better Things: The Life and Choices of Jeffery Catherine Jones . The Fenners are perhaps best known as the founders of the annual Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art book series, now in its twenty-seventh year. See less