More cover scans this morning! Vincent Di Fate is a big name in SF illustration — he was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2011 — but his work has never been featured on RCN. My problem with Di Fate’s work is that, generally speaking, I find it lacking in originality and oomph, but I’ve tried to keep an open mind, and now I finally have three in hand that I think are interesting, though I still can’t shake the feeling that the images have been cobbled together in an impersonal, stylistically nondescript sort of way:
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ABOVE: Philip José Farmer, To Your Scatted Bodies Go (NY: Berkley, 1973), with cover art by Vincent Di Fate.
ABOVE: Roger Elwood, ed., The Other Side of Tomorrow (NY: Pyramid, 1975), with cover art by Vincent Di Fate.
ABOVE: M. J. Engh, Arslan (NY: Warner, 1976), 86-104, with cover art by Vincent Di Fate.
BONUS IMAGES:
ABOVE: Max Ernst, Day and Night (1941), oil on canvas, 146 x 112 cm. Via TRANSISTORADIO.
ABOVE: Giorgio de Chirico, Evangelical Still Life (1956), oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm. Collection of Museo Botero, Bogotá, Colombia. Via TRANSISTORADIO.
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