Premiere New Dark artist Chad Michael Ward has spent a decade entertaining fans of fantasy and science fiction with his evocative work. Dark, moody and often violently erotic, Ward's debut art collection from NBM Publishing is a stylish and modern look at a parallel future.

BLACK RUST is a conceptual art book - a visual feast of images that fit together in a morbid jigsaw puzzle of wires, women and man-beasts to form a symbolic cyberotic tale of love, redemption and death.

BLACK RUST is a 96 page, full color book featuring new and never before seen art by Ward and features an introduction by Warren Ellis ("Transmetropolitan", "Planetary") and an afterword by Tim Bradstreet ("Punisher", "Hellblazer").

Bradstreet calls BLACK RUST "the sum of gothic eroticism, the Japanese tableau vivant, the modern primitive, fetishism, robotica, sex and religion".

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Chad Michael Ward is a Los Angeles based artist that specializes in horror, erotica and dark fantasy fine art. His work has appeared in numerous magazines including Spectrum, Tattoo Savage, Carpe Noctem, Gallery, and The Third Alternative as well as in books for Wizards of the Coast and Storm Constantine. Ward's work is certainly at the forefront of today's cutting-edge illustration and will appeal strongly to fans of Ashley Wood and Brom.