John Picacio, winner of two Hugo Awards, a World Fantasy Award, eight Chesley Awards, and two International Horror Guild Awards, will be speaking at the San Jose State University Main Campus – King Library on Wednesday, March 14 at 5PM.

WorldCon76? Games of Throne? Star Trek? X-Men? Hugo Award? If this interests you come hear the award winning and iconic artist John Picacio.

Open to All.

Then on Thursday, March 15 at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, 7PM.

Loteria Night with artist John Picacio!  Thursday, March 15th at 7:00 pm – LOTERIA NIGHT! WIN PRIZES! Join Hugo Award-winning artist John Picacio for a fast, fun evening playing the classic Mexican game of chance, Loteria (AKA ‘Mexican Bingo’). John has produced gorgeous book and product art for works by George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, Harlan Ellison, James Tiptree, Jr., Dan Simmons, Brenda Cooper, Robert Silverberg, Sheri S. Tepper, among many others (http://www.johnpicacio.com).  He’s producing an ongoing, stunningly-illustrated set of Loteria Cards, and he’ll be signing some of those limited-run collectibles.  We’ll play up to 10 rounds of Loteria with the classic Mexican bingo deck and winners will go home with terrific prizes.  We’ll also have some of John’s limited-run Loteria Posters available and the artist will be signing those as well!  We hope you’ll join us for an incredibly entertaining night.“