Work

Nielsen who has illustrated the covers of several children's books, including:

• Heir Apparent
  Heir Apparent (novel)
  Heir Apparent is a science fiction/fantasy novel by young-adult fiction author Vivian Vande Velde, about a girl who becomes trapped inside a looping virtual reality role-playing game....
  
  
• The Giver
  The Giver
  The Giver is a 1993 soft science fiction novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life...
  
   cover art.
• The Mortal Instruments series
• The Infernal Devices
  The Infernal Devices
  The Infernal Devices is a new series of novels by author Cassandra Clare, centering on a number of races, collectively known as Downworlders, introduced in her The Mortal Instruments series. This series takes place in Victorian England, ten years after the peace treaties between the demon-fighting...
  
  
• The Cirque Du Freak series

Cliff Nielsen also illustrated the cover for the young adult novel Blood and Chocolate

Blood and Chocolate (novel)

Blood and Chocolate is a 1997 romantic supernatural werewolf novel for young adult readers by Annette Curtis Klause. It is set in the contemporary United States.-The Loups-garoux:...

by Annette Curtis Klause

Annette Curtis Klause

Annette Curtis Klause is an American author and librarian, specializing in young adult fiction. Annette is currently a children's materials selector for Montgomery County Public Libraries in Montgomery County, Maryland. Born in Bristol, England, she now lives in Hyattsville, Maryland with her...

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Nielsen's work also appeared on U.S. editions of O.R. Melling's The Chronicles of Faerie

The Hunter's Moon

The Hunter's Moon is a novel by O.R. Melling about two teenage cousins, one Irish, the other from Canada, that set out to find a magic doorway to the Faraway Country, where humans must bow to the little people...

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He illustrated the Marvel

Marvel Comics

Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...

 comic book Ruins

Ruins (comics)

Ruins is a two-issue comic book mini-series, written by Warren Ellis with painted artwork by Terese Nielsen, her husband Cliff Nielsen, and Chris Moeller, who took over for the last seventeen pages of the second issue....

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Besides this, he was known for working in the magazine Carpe Noctem, and was interviewed as well as created a few covers. He is currently designing/writing a graphic novel

Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...

 known as Beloved, but it so far, has only shown at ComicCon.

He also illustrated the cover of the Cirque du Freak Series.

Critic Joseph Szadkowski wrote that Nielsen's work for the card set Ultra X-Men: Wolverine makes him deserve "an honorary membership to the Der Blaue Reiter

Der Blaue Reiter

Der Blaue Reiter was a group of artists from the Neue Künstlervereinigung München in Munich, Germany. The group was founded by a number of Russian emigrants, including Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, and native German artists, such as Franz Marc, August Macke and...

 group". Nielsen has illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering

Magic: The Gathering

Magic: The Gathering , also known as Magic, is the first collectible trading card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic continues to thrive, with approximately twelve million players as of 2011...

collectible card game.

He has also done the covers for Cassandra Clare's young adult series The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices published by Simon and Schuster.

Personal life

In 1994, Nielsen graduated from the Art Center College of Design

Art Center College of Design

Art Center College of Design is a private college located in Pasadena, California, and was cited by BusinessWeek as one of the 60 best design schools in the world. The college’s industrial design program is consistently ranked number one by both DesignIntelligence and U.S...

, where he also currently teaches.

Nielsen currently lives in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

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External links

• Cliff Nielsen article at Wookieepedia
  Wookieepedia
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