Anson Maddocks

Anson Maddocks is an illustrator for science-fiction and fantasy games and other publications.

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Anson was born in Anchorage Alaska in 1968 and grew up in Sitka Alaska from the ages 6-18. After graduating from Sitka High School, Anson attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks for 1.5 years before moving to Seattle Washington at age 20 where he attended Cornish College of the Arts for another 1.5 years. Anson left his studies at Cornish to pursue a variety of freelance illustrator projects which eventually connected him with Wizards of the Coast, a small fantasy role-playing game publisher in Kent Washington. Anson, since that time, has become a world reknown artist in connection with Magic: the Gathering, a collectible card game (ccg) created by Wizards of the Coast (now owned by Hasbro).

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Anson Maddocks also has the distinction of being the close friend of Mark Tedin (another popular artist for Magic: the Gathering). The two artists grew up together in Sitka, benifiting from a healthy sense of competition between each other artistically.