Look Here: Seven LOST UNIVERSE covers with art by Bill Sienkiewicz
Category: Illustration Art
Look Here: THE PAINTED BIRD, with first-rate cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon
From the library of yours truly, as usual:
BTW, there’s a certain “Dillon Fangirl” out there who seems to think that she has a right to take EVERY Dillon scan from RCN (and LOTS of other sites, too) and post them ALL on her Dillon fan blog without properly acknowledging her sources, i.e., without posting links to the pages where she “found” the images. Now, as someone who goes to a lot of trouble to find and purchase old paperbacks and scan them for display on the Web, I think that what she has done (and continues to do) is extremely uncool. And the fact is, I’ve told her as much by email. I’ve also told her that she is NOT welcome here at RCN. Won’t do any good, of course. She is ungrateful. And utterly shameless.
Look Here: Three more Zebra/Kensington REH paperbacks, with cover art by Jeffrey Jones
More Jones covers, scanned by me from my own collection:
To view all of the Zebra/Kensington paperbacks with cover art by Jeffrey Jones that I’ve posted over the years, click here.
Look Here (and There): The art of Hamid Savkuev
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Google+ albums > Hamid Savkuev. Painting.
Academy of Russian Arts > Hamid Savkuev – includes CV and information about title, size, medium, date, etc., for each piece on display. Also includes more images of Savkuev’s sculpture than you’ll find on most sites. Excellent.
Book Graphics > Agniya. Legend of the Scythians. – illustrations by Hamid Savkuev
Russian Art Tour > Hamid Savkuev (scroll to bottom of page) — 160-page coffee-table book, in Russian, for sale from a site run by American artist, Cathy Locke. Only a few copies are left.
Museum Drawing > Hamid Savkuev (b. 1964).
UniqArt.ru Blog > Hamid Savkuev Exhibition
Happy Halloween 2012 from RCN!
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I have quite a few Agatha Christie novels with cover art by Tom Adams, and sooner or later, I will scan them all for display here at RCN. So stay tuned, mystery lovers — and Tom Adams fans!
Look Here: THE DEVIL’S CHILDREN, with cover art by the great unknown
I scoured the shelves at the local thrift shops a few days ago, looking for some cheap horror paperbacks to scan and post in the days leading up to Halloween, but the only one I saw that featured an illustration that I sort of liked was the following uncredited cover for The Devil’s Children, edited by Michael Parry:
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I suppose it’s possible that the cover image is an early illustration by Alan Lee, though the rendering (in watercolour) is tighter, and displays a much wider range of values, than one usually encounters in Lee’s work. So, probably not by Lee. Unless it is.
Look Here: THE COSMIC ENGINEERS, with cover art by the great unknown
From the library of yours truly:
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The foreground figures in the above (uncredited and unsigned) illustration are tremendously effective; the background figures, not so much.
Look Here: Three of six William Tenn covers by Stephen Miller
From the paperback collection of yours truly, here are three covers with art by Stephen Miller, produced for a simultaneous six-volume reprint series of works by the great SF author, William Tenn, published by Ballantine Science Fiction back in 1968:
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The other three books in the series have covers by Stephen Miller that are as good as — and in at least one instance, perhaps two, significantly better than — the covers I’ve posted above. Unfortunately, I don’t own those ones, but you can easily find scans of them on flickr if you’re interested.
Look Here: An obscure novel with rudimentary but provocative cover art by Jeffrey Jones
Think furry fetishism is a twenty-first century innovation in sex? Think again…
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As is usually the case with the fantasy and SF paperback covers that I post, I myself created the above image from my very own copy of James Broom Lynne’s novel.
And lest you think I am nearing the end of my supply of paperbacks with covers by Jeffrey Jones, let me assure you that I have enough for several more posts, at least.
Connections: Ted CoConis and H. Rogers, Ada and Shaft
Yeah, I know… there’s probably no direct connection between Ted CoConis’s stunning illustration for the cover of Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada and H. Rogers’ more workmanlike effort for Ernest Tidyman’s Shaft among the Jews — some design ideas are just “in the air” at certain points in history — but it is amusing to me that the cover of Nabokov’s daring and erudite literary novel, a novel which a reviewer for the New York Times described as “a love story, an erotic masterpiece, a philosophical investigation into the nature of time,” is several orders of magnitude sexier than the cover of a pulp fiction featuring “the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks.” Thus, this post:
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Ted CoConis has a JPEG of his Ada cover illustration, sans text, on display on his website. Look there!
BONUS SCAN:
The photographic cover of the movie tie-in edition of Shaft is evocative, I guess. And since I own it, I might as well scan and post it, right?
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