Rick Berry

Rick Berry is an accomplished oil painter, draftsman, and a pioneer in new media. He worked on the Halo Graphic Novel with many other artists.

Background
He left school at age 17 to begin a career in underground comics. After hitching east to Boston from Colorado, he shifted his artistic focus and has produced hundreds of illustrations for books, magazines, games, CDs, and comics. In addition to illustration, Berry's early experience in the print production trenches of comics has evolved into specialty editions design work, and has sent him to some interesting places. Berry teaches Digital Art: A Collaborative Approach at Tufts University, as well a conducting lectures and workshops at colleges and corporations nationally on the nature of creativity.

Trivia

 * In 1984, he created the world's first digital cover illustration for a work of fiction, William Gibson's Neuromancer.
 * He was flown to Hong Kong in 1993 to supervise presses and advise the Chinese on current electronic press capabilities.