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A detail of an ink drawing printed in blue on vivid green. A surreal landscape comprising mis-sized plant life and architectural structures.
Eg: A portion of a four-page Jim Leon spread from issue 31 of Oz magazine, 1970. Those curving shapes are a recurrent feature in Leon's art.
This is either a poster by Jim Leon or something borrowing from Leon as well as Jack Kirby's The Watcher.
Ha, I didn't know about that. Variant games is a whole other subject...
If you're feeling Monday-sluggish, let @70sscifiart.bsky.social rescue you. Scroll down past the gorgeous art to the "Space Rescue" video. No caffeine needed. 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/angus-mckies...
My dad was Scottish so The Sunday Post was the Sunday paper in our Blackpool home. Oor Wullie was as familiar as all the other DC Thomson characters.
Periodic reminder that Shaw Bros. keeps adding movies to their YT channel. All free! All beautiful transfers! Plus, a lot of things I haven't seen available with English subtitles before.
www.youtube.com/@ShawBrosCin...
Oh, yeah, I do like the film as well, it was the film that sent me to the source. Good to catch all the Musketeers details this time round.
I just re-read The Club Dumas (aka The Dumas Club) which is a great novel. Recommended if you've not read it. The film is only one part of the story, and a somewhat mangled one at that.
An album release on compact disc: Green (1978) by Steve Hillage.
#nowplaying Another Green album. Every song votes Green apart from the ones in the second half which vote ley lines and UFOs.
From: The Kidnapping of the Sun and Moon (1968), dir. Sándor Reisenbüchler, Pannonia Film Studio
Note: flashing images
At Unquiet Things: @nonalimmen.bsky.social builds entire worlds from trembling, tenebrous material and inhabits them with indefatigable devotion, her photographs arriving like transmissions from memory or dream, impossible to recount and equally impossible to forget unquietthings.com/dispatches-f...
A woman with a mohawk poses in a stylized black garment that looks like a bunch of smoke trying to be a dress. Behind her are two silver women who are both copying her pose. The outline of a tall rocketship is in the background.
This original artwork by Frank Kelly Freas only appeared in print in black and white, as an interior illustration for A. Bertram Chandler’s “The Far Traveller” in the August 1976 issue of 'Analog' magazine. www.blackgate.com/2016/02/04/f...
Yes, Symbolist-loving Ligotti. I don't recall which story. Probably time to read them again.
Yeah, thanks. Discogs has a lot of lists like this.
A partial view of the cover of an art book: Felicien Rops by Victor Arwas. Red cover with white type and a detail of a Rops etching showing a naked woman embracing a sphinx while observed by a stereotypical Devil.
I've also got this (Academy Editions, 1972) which used to be one of the few English-language collections of his work.
The first US paperback of Rogue Moon (1960) by Algis Budrys: Cover art shows a man in a pressure suit exploring the lethal "Formation", an alien artefact discovered on the surface of the Moon.
The first US paperback of The Impossible Man (1966), a collection of stories by JG Ballard. Cover art shows three framed images, two of which (abstract sphere, pressure-suited man) are taken from the Rogue Moon cover art. The third frame is an arrangement of Kandinsky-like abstract shapes, while all three frames are placed over a red background featuring silhouetted figures and less obvious elements.
First time I've noticed Richard Powers reusing portions of his own artwork.
Cover for Moorcock's Behold the Man. Man in suits sits under a looming cross with a chalace and candle.
Cover for Vance's The Eyes of the Overworld. A sphere of eyeballs surrounded by clouds.
Artist Bob Haberfield (1938-2021) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, 1970; R, 1972
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
Cover for A Voyage to Arcturus. A man and woman ride a dragon creature.
Cover for Devil's Tor. Inset art illustrates the titular "tor" on a hill.
David Lindsay (1876-1945) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, Bob Pepper, 1968; R, uncredited, 1932
#scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #books
Zones was one of the first Hawkwind albums I bought... As John says, Running Through The Backbrain is a highlight.
I've read that novel twice and still don't remember its details very well. Pynchon's books tend to be like that...
The front cover of the first paperback edition (Bantam, 1967) of The Crying of Lot 49. Cover art: Dancing woman with blue hair, blue mini dress and Paisley top surrounded by monochrome Paisley swirls. In the middle-distance: a Beat-group drummer at his drumkit. A Bizarre, Saturnalian Plunge Into The Underground "A Streamlined Doomsday Machine." - The New York Times
The back cover of the first paperback edition (Bantam, 1967) of The Crying of Lot 49. Same artwork as the front. WHO IS OEDIPA MAAS? And what was she doing when the Paranoids blew out all the lights? What was the strange legacy of Pierce Inverarity that first led her to the world-wide conspiracy known as the Tristero System, and then on into the mystery and enigma of America itself? The Crying of Lot 49 "Full of sadness, terror, love and flamboyance... The major character is really Pynchon himself." -The New York Times "Pynchon's grim version of the Holy Grail... The work of a virtuoso with prose... His intricate symbolic order ..akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses." -Chicago Tribune
Psychedelic Pynchon. (Via eBay)
Ja.
Claus Schultze [sic] is credited with playing "burning parchment" as well as drums & percussion. "Yeah, Edgar, what this album needs is more burning parchment."
