Background
Hughes is the granddaughter of Hildegarde Hamilton, a prolific and landscape painter.
Hughes is the granddaughter of Hildegarde Hamilton, a prolific and landscape painter.
Her work has appeared in over 150 publications. Hughes received her Bachelor from Furman University. Her first published cover was for Science Fiction Chronicle.
Her next book covers appeared on Baen Books in 1989 which included covers for Roger Zelazny, Aline Boucher Kaplan and Don Wismer.
This was followed by frontispiece work for Easton Press/MBI books which included illustration for such authors as Alexei Panshin, Sir Kingsley Amis, Charles Pellegrino, Mike Resnick, Allen Steel, Gentry Lee and Jack McDevitt. In 1996 Debbie Created the painting The Flying Dutchman.
She posted it to the web on the Sciences Fi channel web page. Much to her chagrin, the painting showed up in a movie without cartulary-register
Debbie illustrated the entire book Little Women with over 45 illustrations.
She illustrated the works of Edgar Allan Poe with 12 illustrations, Nathaniel Hawthorne"s The Scarlet Letter with seven illustrations and Mary Shelly"s Frankenstein with 10 illustrations. Hughes did interior pictures for Amazing Stories Magazine, Science Fiction Age Magazine and Realms of Fantasy Magazine. Debbie created interior illustrations for Ben Bova, Martha Soukup, A.J. Austin, Vivian Vande Velde, Deborah Wheeler, Gary West. Herring, and Joyce K. Jensen.
Hughes" work has been seen in the Civil Defense Rom games JumpRaven and Dust.
The Bookworm"s Illustrated Classic Series, The Learning Company"s Learn to Speak Series, and Reader Rabbit feature artwork by Hughes. Debbie also created animation work for Dust, Reader Rabbit and the Bookworms Illustrated Classic Series.
