Taral Wayne

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Taral Wayne is an artist from Toronto, Canada with a career extending as far back as the pre-furry APA Vootie.

[edit] Fandom involvement

His art has been featured in Gallery and in the comic Tales of Beatrix Farmer, and was nominated for a Hugo Award several times for his illustration in science fiction fanzines. The most recent of these nominations is for the 2008 Worldcon in Denver.

He was a guest of honor at ConFurence 3 (1992) and was selected recently to be the Fan Guest of Honour for the 2009 Worldcon in Montreal.

He produces consistent and refined line art, depicting figures in a stylized and rounded bande dessinée style. Taral has also had a modest career illustrating books, magazines, and any other sort of kipple that makes him a buck.

[edit] Art style

Many of his characters and the associated art are set in or around a fictional small town called Willow Run. His signature characters are a blue and white furred, silver eyed alien girl named Saara Mar, and another extraterrestrial girl named Tangel' (short for Tangelwedsibel, a Teh Langgi girl featuring in a large number of drawings by Taral Wayne. She somewhat resembles a black & white furry dinosaur and hates being called a skunk.