Terese Nielsen

Terese Nielsen (born March 11, 1966)

She married Cliff Nielsen, another ACCD graduate, and they illustrated Ruins (1995); they have since divorced.

Career Landmark Entertainment hired Nielsen to help design its themed amusement parks, and DC and Marvel Comics hired her to illustrate several superhero trading cards. In the video game genre, her influence can be seen in Sierra's Gabriel Knight series, and in her work for 3DO's Meridian 59, and she worked with Mythic Entertainment creating the look for the advertising campaign promoting the interactive internet game Dark Age of Camelot. Nielsen has produced art for both Magic and Wizards of the Coast's other products since 1996, in addition to her work as an illustrator of book covers & interiors and movie posters. She has served as a juror for the Spectrum Awards. She created several images for the Harry Potter Trading Card Game, released in 2001. Szadkowski also praised Nielsen's work in the Marvel Comics Code of Honor series (1997).

She created the look for the Sembia series of Forgotten Realms novels, and for Greg Keyes' Age of Unreason series published by Del Rey.

Nielsen was a Gen Con artist guest of honor in 2014.

Nielsen has contributed art to the digital collectible card game Hearthstone.

Controversy On June 18, 2020, during the "Weekly MTG" Twitch stream, Wizards of the Coast revealed that they had ended their relationship with Nielsen and that "the last product that will have any reprint art" by her would be released in the fall of 2020.

This action by Wizards coincided with some fan concerns over Nielsen's alleged views, notably regarding transgender people, her liking or retweeting alt-right activists and conspiracy theorists. Nielsen also gifted and signed some of her art to QAnon and conspiracy-focused YouTube channel Edge of Wonder.