Jim Roslof

James Paul "Jim" Roslof (November 21, 1946 – March 19, 2011) was an American artist and graphic designer particularly well known for cover art and interior illustrations of fantasy role-playing games published by TSR, Inc. during the "golden age" of Dungeons & Dragons. As Art Director at TSR in the early 1980s, he was also responsible for hiring many of the young artists who would go on to prominent careers in the fantasy role-playing industry.

As a fantasy artist, one of Roslof's best known pieces of artwork is his cover for Keep on the Borderlands, of which more than one million copies were sold.

Early life and career

Jim Roslof was born November 21, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois to Edward E. and Gertrude (Kibitlewski) Roslof.

Early in his career in the late 1960s, Jim Roslof was a contributor of cover art to the counterculture underground newspaper Chicago Seed.

At TSR

By 1979, Roslof had joined Erol Otus, Bill Willingham, Jeff Dee, Paul Reiche and Evan Robinson as a staff artist at TSR, Inc. in Lake Geneva WI. Over the next year, he provided interior art for