Editing Brian Froud (section)

==Career==
After graduating, Froud spent five years working as a [[commercial illustrator]] in [[Soho]], London before moving to [[Chagford]], Devon in 1975.<ref name="Crystal"/><ref name="People">{{cite magazine |first=Fred |last=Hauptfuhrer |date=19 March 1979 |title=For Artists Alan Lee & Brian Froud, Life Is a Faerie Tale Come True |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |volume=11 |issue=11 |url=https://people.com/archive/for-artists-alan-lee-brian-froud-life-is-a-faerie-tale-come-true-vol-11-no-11/ |access-date=23 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709001019/https://people.com/archive/for-artists-alan-lee-brian-froud-life-is-a-faerie-tale-come-true-vol-11-no-11/ |archive-date=9 July 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Between 1972 and 1976, he illustrated four books by children's author [[Margaret Mahy]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.storylines.org.nz/Profiles/Profiles+I-M/Margaret+Mahy.html |title=Margaret Mahy |date=n.d. |work=Storylines.org.nz |publisher=[[Storylines Childrens Literature Charitable Trust]] |location=Auckland, New Zealand |access-date=23 June 2020 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528110216/http://www.storylines.org.nz/Profiles/Profiles+I-M/Margaret+Mahy.html |archive-date=28 May 2012 }}</ref> and ''Are All the Giants Dead?'' by [[Mary Norton (author)|Mary Norton]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Tohn |last=Leonard |date=16 November 1975 |title=Are All the Giants Dead? |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/16/archives/are-all-the-giants-dead-giants.html |access-date=23 June 2020 }}</ref> In 1976, Froud was featured in ''Once Upon a Time: Some Contemporary Illustrators of Fantasy'', a survey of modern British illustrators.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Douglas |last=Street |date=1979 |title=Review of ''Once Upon A Time: Some Contemporary Illustrators of Fantasy, and: Fantasy: The Golden Age of Fantastic Illustration'' |journal=[[Children's Literature Association Quarterly]] |volume=4 |issue=3 |page=17 |doi=10.1353/chq.0.1637 |s2cid=143538285 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/250086 |access-date=23 June 2020}}</ref> In 1977, an anthology of his artwork, ''The Land of Froud'', was published.<ref>{{cite web |first=Doris, E. |last=Brown |date=20 November 1977 |title=Fantasy illustrator subject of art book |newspaper=[[The Central New Jersey Home News]] |location=New Brunswick, New Jersey |page=C11 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57609818/fantasy-illustrator-subject-of-art-book/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |url-access=limited |access-date=18 August 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200818215712/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57609818/fantasy-illustrator-subject-of-art-book/ |archive-date=18 August 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In collaboration with his friend and fellow artist [[Alan Lee (illustrator)|Alan Lee]], Froud created the 1978 book ''[[Faeries (book)|Faeries]]'', an illustrated compendium of [[fairy|faerie]] folklore.<ref name="People"/> ''Faeries'' reached number four on the [[New York Times Best Sellers|''New York Times'' Best Sellers]] list,<ref>{{cite news |title=Best Sellers |date=19 November 1978 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/19/archives/best-sellers-fiction-nonfiction-footnotes.html |access-date=23 June 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Heritage Capital Corporation |date=2005 |title=Heritage Comics Auctions #815 Pini Collection Catalog |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nj02doLM968C&pg=PA21 |publisher=[[Ivy Press]] |isbn=978-1-932899-50-4 }}</ref> and by 2003 had sold over five million copies.<ref name="Kiefer">{{cite web |first=Michael |last=Kiefer |date=6 May 2003 |title=Magical tide washes Faeryland onto red rocks of Sedona |newspaper=[[Arizona Republic]] |location=Phoenix, Arizona |page=E2 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57740812/magical-tide-washes-faeryland-onto-red/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |url-access=limited |access-date=21 August 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200821011652/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57740812/magical-tide-washes-faeryland-onto-red/ |archive-date=21 August 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Froud's artwork in ''Once Upon a Time'' and ''The Land of Froud'' brought him to the attention of [[Jim Henson]], who sought out Froud to collaborate on his all-puppetry film ''[[The Dark Crystal]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Henson |first=Jim |title=1/16-24/1978 – 'Brian Froud comes to NY to live and work – have 1st series of meetings on Froud film.' |url=https://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/2013/01/116-241978/ |work=Jim Henson's Red Book |access-date=24 June 2020 |date=16–24 January 1978 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140816072828/https://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/2013/01/116-241978/ |archive-date=16 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Karen |last=Falk |date=2012 |title=Imagination Illustrated: The Jim Henson Journal |page=108 |publisher=[[Chronicle Books]] |isbn=978-1-4521-2462-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EhRtcpdbqosC&pg=PA108 }}</ref> Froud served as the [[conceptual design]]er of ''The Dark Crystal'', released in 1982. The same year, his concept art for the film was published in the companion book ''[[The World of the Dark Crystal]]''.<ref name="Cine1983">{{cite magazine |last=Jones |first=Alan |author-link=Alan Jones (film critic) |date=April–May 1983 |title=The Dark Crystal |magazine=[[Cinefantastique]] |editor1-last=Clarke |editor1-first=Frederick S. |volume=13 |issue=4 |page=46 |url=https://archive.org/stream/cinefantastique_1970-2002/Cinefantastique%20Vol%2013%20No%204%20%281982%29#page/n46/mode/2up}}</ref> Froud was also the conceptual designer for Henson's next feature film,  ''[[Labyrinth (1986 film)|Labyrinth]]'', released in 1986,<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Jones |first=Alan |author-link=Alan Jones (film critic) |date=July 1986 |title=Labyrinth |magazine=[[Cinefantastique]] |editor1-last=Clarke |editor1-first=Frederick S. |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=7, 57 |url=https://archive.org/stream/cinefantastique_1970-2002/Cinefantastique%20Vol%2016%20No%203%20%28July%201986%29#page/n5/mode/2up}}</ref> as well as for the pilot episode of Henson's television series ''[[The Storyteller (TV series)|The Storyteller]]'', first aired in 1987.<ref name="Storyteller">{{cite magazine |last=Jones |first=Alan |author-link=Alan Jones (film critic) |date=December 1987 |title=The Storyteller |magazine=[[Cinefantastique]] |editor1-last=Clarke |editor1-first=Frederick S. |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=4–5 |url=https://archive.org/stream/cinefantastique_1970-2002/Cinefantastique%20Vol%2018%20No%201%20%28Dec%201987%29#page/n3/mode/2up}}</ref> Following his collaborations with Henson, Froud's filmography continued; as a designer for the 1989 Japanese animated film ''[[Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland]]'';<ref>{{cite book |first1=Johnathan |last1=Clements |first2=Helen |last2=McCarthy |date=2015 |title=The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition: A Century of Japanese Animation |publisher=[[Stone Bridge Press]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E03KBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT1790 |page=1790 |isbn=978-1-61172-909-2 }}</ref> as a visual consultant on the 2000 American animated film [[The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus (2000 film)|''The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus'']]<ref name="Crystal"/> and [[P. J. Hogan]]’s 2003 live-action film [[Peter Pan (2003 film)|''Peter Pan'']];<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Peter Pan |date=March 2004 |magazine=[[Sight and Sound]] |volume=14 |issue=3 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |pages=56–57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2tKGAAAAIAAJ }}</ref> and as a concept artist on the 2016 [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]] film ''[[Pete's Dragon (2016 film)|Pete's Dragon]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pete's Dragon (2016) |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/579ddbe705d45 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114003237/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/579ddbe705d45 |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 November 2017 |website=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref> Froud returned to working with the [[Jim Henson Company]] as the primary conceptual designer of the 2019 [[Netflix]] series ''[[The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance]]'', a prequel to ''The Dark Crystal''.<ref name="Sounds">{{cite AV media |people=Paul Kobrak, Clem Hitchcock (Producers) |title=Creature and costume designers, The Frouds |date=13 August 2019 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz1yv |series=In the Studio (Podcast series) |website=[[BBC Sounds]] |publisher=[[BBC World Service]] |access-date=23 June 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Abby |last=Robinson |date=8 August 2019 |title=Here's why Netflix's Dark Crystal was made into a prequel |website=[[Digital Spy]] |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a28866755/dark-crystal-netflix-prequel/ |access-date=24 June 2020 }}</ref>

In the late 1980s, Froud formed an artistic-literary partnership with [[Terry Jones]], who was a [[screenwriter]] on ''Labyrinth''. Together they produced ''The Goblins of Labyrinth'' (1986), a companion book containing Froud's concept art for the film,<ref>{{cite book |title=Library Media Connection: LMC., Volumes 4-6 |date=1986 |page=39 |publisher=Linworth Pub. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SnIPAQAAMAAJ }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Douglas |last=McCall |date=2013 |title=Monty Python: A Chronology, 1969-2012 |page=115 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |edition=2nd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RS0FAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA115 |isbn=978-0-7864-7811-8 }}</ref> and subsequently a number of non-''Labyrinth''-related books about fairies and [[goblins]]. Their ''Lady Cottington'' series parodied the [[Cottingley Fairies]] phenomenon.<ref name="Greenwood">{{cite book |date=2008 |last=Alred |first=B. Grantham |chapter=Froud, Brian (1947-) |editor1-last=Haase |editor1-first=Donald |title=The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales |volume=One: A-F |page=393 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jdx2fhPM1XIC&pg=PA393 |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |isbn=978-0-313-33442-9 |edition=Illustrated }}</ref> For his artwork in the first book of the series, ''Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book'' (1994), Froud won the [[Hugo Award for Best Original Artwork]]<ref name="Hugo95"/> and the [[Chesley Award]] for Best Interior Illustration.<ref name="Chesley 1995"/>

In 1991, Froud created over 50 paintings and drawings for his ''Faerielands'' series, a collaborative project in which he invited four fantasy authors — [[Charles de Lint]], [[Patricia A. McKillip]], [[Terri Windling]] and [[Midori Snyder]] — to choose their favourite of his pieces and write stories to go with them, based on the premise that "Faerie, inextricably bound as it is to nature and natural forces, is gravely threatened by the ecological crises that human beings have brought to our world”.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mythprint, Volumes 31-32 |publisher=[[Mythopoeic Society]] |year=1994 |page=32 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=--4qAQAAIAAJ}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Diana Tixier |last=Herald |date=1999 |title=Fluent in Fantasy: A Guide to Reading Interests |publisher=[[Libraries Unlimited]] |page=147 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TW3gAAAAMAAJ |isbn=978-1-56308-655-7}}</ref> The resulting novels were to be published by [[Bantam Books]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 88, Issues 524-529 |date=1994 |publisher=[[Mercury Press]] |page=36 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c-tLAAAAYAAJ }}</ref> However, only de Lint's ''The Wild Wood'' and McKillip's ''[[Something Rich and Strange (McKillip novel)|Something Rich and Strange]]'' were published in 1994 under the banner "Brian Froud's Faerielands" before the project was cancelled.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 105 |date=2003 |pages=27–28 |publisher=Fantasy House |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fDo6AQAAIAAJ }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Bleiber |date=2003 |title=Supernatural Fiction Writers: Peter Ackroyd to Graham Joyce |page=274 |publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1RjuAAAAMAAJ |isbn=978-0-684-31251-4 }}</ref>

His artwork has been exhibited in the United Kingdom and the United States.<ref name="GLCAEntry"/> By 2003, Froud had sold over eight million large-format books of his paintings of fairies.<ref name="Kiefer"/>