Vince Locke

Vincent Locke (/lɒk/; born 1966) is an Americancomic book artist known for his work on Deadworld and A History of Violence and for his ultraviolent album covers for death metal band Cannibal Corpse.^[1][2][3]

Locke began work in 1986 illustrating Deadworld, a zombiehorrorcomic that soon became an underground hit.^[4]

Since then, his illustrative talents in comics have included The Sandman, American Freak, Batman, Witchcraft: Le Terreur, The Spectre, and A History of Violence, which was later made into a movie directed by David Cronenberg and starring Viggo Mortensen. He has done work for 2000 AD, including two Judge Dredd stories.

Locke has also created extremely violent watercolor paintings that have been used as album covers by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse. Despite decades of collaboration, the band has stated that they have never met Locke in person.^[5]

Locke has also provided illustrations for the "weird erotica" of dark-fantasy author Caitlín R. Kiernan, providing black and white artwork strongly reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley's style for her collections Frog Toes and Tentacles and Tales from the Woeful Platypus, as well as for Kiernan's monthly Sirenia Digest. Recent projects have included illustrating the first issue of Polluto: The Anti-Pop Culture Journal. He is also known for providing art work for RPGs by White Wolf Publishing and Wizards of the Coast. A press release dated May 6, 2012 announced Locke's graphic novel collaboration with writer Jasmine Lyraka for the Wagnerian opera metal project Lyraka.^[6]

Comics work includes:

• American Freak: Una historia de los no-hombres (con Dave Louapre , miniserie de 5 números, Vertigo , 1994)
• Una historia de violencia (con John Wagner , Paradox Press , 1997)
• Los Libros de las Hadas: El Cuento de Auberon (tintas y arte terminado, Vertigo, 1998) ^{[ 7 ]}
• Relatos del Museo Negro :
  • "Alimentadores y comedores" (con John Smith , en Judge Dredd Megazine #250, octubre de 2006)
  • "El increíble espectáculo de tortura a la hora del té" (con Tony Lee , en Judge Dredd Megazine #284, mayo de 2009)
• Juez Dredd :
  • "El asesino de Sexmek" (con John Wagner , en 2000 AD #1521, enero de 2007)
  • "El cumpleañero" (con Pat Mills , en 2000 AD #1613-1616, noviembre-diciembre de 2008)
• Los impactos del futuro de Tharg : "Yggdrasil" (con Arthur Wyatt , en 2000 AD #1561, 2007)
• 3rillers de Tharg: "Colony" (con Kek-W, en 2000 AD #1880–1882, 2014)

White Wolf Publishing : numerosos créditos ^{[ 8 ]}

Wizards of the Coast (como artista de interiores):

• Piscina de Radiación: Ataque a Myth Drannor ( Reinos Olvidados ) (2000)
• Guía práctica de Greyhawk (2000)
• Juego de rol La Rueda del Tiempo (2001)
• Religiones y panteones (Reinos olvidados) (2002)
• La ciudad de la reina araña (Reinos olvidados) (2002)
• Underdark (Reinos Olvidados) (2003)
• El Oriente Inaccesible (Reinos Olvidados) (2003)
• Razas de Faerûn (Reinos Olvidados) (2003)
• El brillante sur (Reinos olvidados) (2004)
• Imperios perdidos de Faerûn (Reinos olvidados) (2005)

Con Cannibal Corpse

• Devorado de nuevo a la vida (1990) (Portada)
• Descuartizado al nacer (1991) (Portada)
• La tumba de los mutilados (1992) (Portada)
• Hammer Smashed Face (EP) (1993) (Portada)
• El sangrado (1994) (Portada)
• Vile (1996) (Portada)
• Galería del Suicidio (1998) (Portada)
• Sed de sangre (1999) (Portada)
• Canibalismo en vivo (2000) (Álbum en vivo) (Portada)
• Canibalismo en vivo (2000) (DVD en vivo) (Portada)
• Obsesionados con el gore (2002) (Portada)
• Classic Cannibal Corpse (2002) (Box set) (Cover art)
• Worm Infested (EP) (2003) (Cover art)
• The Wretched Spawn (2004) (Cover art)
• Kill (2006) (Artwork)
• Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years (2008) (DVD) (Artwork) (Cover art)
• Evisceration Plague (2009) (Cover art)
• Global Evisceration (2011) (Live DVD) (Artwork)
• Torture (2012) (Cover art, as "Vince Locke")
• Dead Human Collection: 25 Years of Death Metal (2013) (Box set) (Cover art) (Logo) (Artwork)
• A Skeletal Domain (2014) (Cover art)
• Red Before Black (2017) (Cover art)
• Violence Unimagined (2021) (Cover art)
• Chaos Horrific (2023) (Cover art)

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