Jim Roslof

Visual Artist

1946 – 2011

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Who was Jim Roslof?

James Paul "Jim" Roslof was an American artist and graphic designer particularly well known for cover art and interior illustrations of fantasy role-playing games published by TSR, Inc. during the "golden age" of Dungeons & Dragons. As Art Director at TSR in the early 1980s, he was also responsible for hiring many of the young artists who would go on to prominent careers in the fantasy role-playing industry.

As a fantasy artist, one of Roslof's best known pieces of artwork is his cover for Keep on the Borderlands, of which more than one million copies were sold.

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Born
1946
Chicago
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Lived in
  • Chicago
Died
Mar 19, 2011
Elkhorn

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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