Gary Chalk

 

Gary Chalk (Hertfordshire, 1952) is an English illustrator and writer.

Raised in rural Hertfordshire, England where he started playing wargames at the age of 15. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in design and later worked as an art teacher and design and then later abandoning teaching to pursue a career as an illustrator. He currently lives in Villedieu-les-Poêles, France.

He is best known for his contributions to the Lone Wolf saga book series, written by Joe Dever, illustrating the first 8 and the color illustrated guide The Magnamund Companion (Dawn of the Darklords). He also designed the role-playing game (The Lone Wolf RPG) published by the French Mongoose Publishing.

After the interruption of the illustrations for lone wolf, Chalk, together with the writer David Kerrigan, started a project for a new gamebook between 1988 and 1989, entitled Prince of Shadows which incorporated many features of the fantasy literary saga conceived by Joe Dever. The series, published by the English Knight Books was not very successful and stopped at only two volumes: Mean Streets and Creatures from the Depths.

He also created the light-dark art on pages 12 and 13 of the HeroQuest game booklet.

He later collaborated on illustrating other series of games and books, including the board game Talisman and the first 6 volumes of the Redwall children's book series by writer Brian Jacques; he also drew the maps for the entire Warriors series of young adult novels by Erin Hunter.

As of 2009-2010, Gary Chalk is the book illustrator for author Allan Frewin Jones.