I’ve been a fan of the artist known as Brom for a solid thirty-five years. Imagine my chagrin when I learned Lord Brom celebrated his sixtieth birthday a few days ago—on the ninth, to be exact. It’s past time to give him his due, but he is getting due’d anyway.

I'm in a hurry this evening, so I'll keep the text brief. That way, we get to the art faster. Here is Brom's bio from his very own website:

"Born in the deep dark south in the mid-sixties. Brom, an army brat, spent his entire youth on the move and unabashedly blames living in such places as Japan, Hawaii, Germany, and Alabama for all his afflictions. From his earliest memories Brom has been obsessed with the creation of the weird, the monstrous, and the beautiful.
At age twenty, Brom began working full-time as a commercial illustrator in Atlanta, Georgia. Three years later he entered the field of fantastic art he’d loved his whole life, making his mark developing and illustrating for D&D’s best selling role-playing worlds. He has since gone on to lend his distinctive vision to all facets of the creative industries, from novels and games, to comics and film. receiving numerous awards such as the Spectrum Fantastic Art Grand Master award, and the Chesley Lifetime Achievement award.
Most recently he's created a series of award winning horror novels that he both writes and illustrates: “The Plucker”, an adult children’s book, “The Devil’s Rose”, a modern western set in Hell, “The Child Thief”, a gritty, nightmarish retelling of the Peter Pan myth, "Krampus, the Yule Lord", a tale of revenge between Krampus and Santa set in rural West Virginia, "Lost Gods" one man's determined trek through the brutal landscape of purgatory, “Slewfoot” a historical horror novel of witchery and vengeance, set in colonial America and a USA Today National Bestseller! And his latest, “Evil In Me”, a punk rock, demon possession, fairytale.
Brom is currently kept in a dank cellar somewhere in the most haunted city in America, Savannah, GA. There he subsists on poison spiders, centipedes, and cheesy horror flicks. When not eating bugs, he is ever writing, painting, and trying to reach a happy sing-a-long with the many demons dancing about in his head."

A career to be proud of, indeed! As Brom notes, besides creating graphic art for "novels and games, comics and film", he's also become a successful prose novelist. Evil in Me is his seventh novel, which was published last year. You'll find art from most of them in the gallery below. Feel free to check it out.

Happy (belated) birthday, Brom!