Check out our latest io9 column, featuring a wonderful French artist, and with quotes from Lou Anders at Pyr.

Anders also notes another element we love about Martiniere’s work, that it “owes nothing to the grosser and more lurid pulp excesses, yet always celebrates and never rejects its genre heart.” Pulp influences are great, but Martiniere’s art seems to indicate you can be moved to excellence as much from the art in great SF and fantasy movies as by past traditions in book cover art.