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Connections: (Dali and Halsman) and Holland
Category: Illustration Art
Look Here: Two SF covers with scintillating and stimulating art by Richard Powers
Powers didn’t produce many covers with collage elements that are as obvious as the mechanical building blocks of his art for Lester del Rey’s Mortals and Monsters, but he makes it work, splendidly, as usual. The dotted line and black dot on the left-hand side give the collage a sardonic twist: all that complex machinery, and the result is what? a pop gun?
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ABOVE: Lester del Rey, Mortals and Monsters (NY: Ballantine, c. 1965), with cover art by Richard Powers.
ABOVE: John Wyndham, Out of the Deeps (NY: Ballantine, 1969), with cover art by Richard Powers.
Look Here: Two Heinleins with cover art by Gene Szafran
A couple of really ratty old SF paperbacks, from the collection of yours truly:
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To view three Heinlein paperbacks with cover art by Szafran that are from the same reprint series as the above titles but are are in very good condition, click here and scroll down. To view all of the covers with art by Szafran that I’ve posted so far, start here.
Connections: Howard Pyle and Ferdynand Ruszczyc
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ABOVE: Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Nec Mergitur (1905). Via The Pictorial Arts.
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ABOVE: Claude Monet, Morning at Etretat (1883), oil on canvas, 81 x 63 cm. Via TRANSISTORADIO.
Look Here: “The Headless Horseman” by Arnold Lobel
Both in the context of Prelutsky and Lobel’s children’s book, The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight, and in this series of posts here at RCN, Lobel’s best scary art has been saved for last:
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SOURCE: Jack Prelutsky, The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight: More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep (NY: Greenwillow Books, 1980), illustrated by Arnold Lobel.
Look Here: A flesh-crawling Christopher with art by Crowley
Scanned from a paperback in my personal collection, as usual; the artist is Don Crowley:
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ABOVE: John Chrisopher, The Possessors (NY: Avon, 1966), with cover art by Don Crowley.
Look Here: “The Banshee” and “The Poltergeist” by Arnold Lobel
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SOURCE: Jack Prelutsky, The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight: More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep (NY: Greenwillow Books, 1980), illustrated by Arnold Lobel.
Look Here: A bloody history with blood-soaked art by Victor Kalin
Back in August, I bought a small stack of gothic paperbacks with covers that depict women fleeing from castles, houses, men, etc., that I thought I might scan and post in the run up to Halloween this year, but now it looks like that is not going to happen.
(What can I say? I simply lost interest.)
A few minutes ago, however, I did manage to scan the cover of Daniel P. Mannix’s The History of Torture (London: New English Library, 1970), with art by Victor Kalin:
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ABOVE: Daniel P. Mannix, The History of Torture (London: NEL, 1970), with cover art by Victor Kalin.
Kalin’s work was not produced specifically for Mannix’s book but rather was repurposed from an earlier publication, Peter Saxon’s The Torturer (NY: Paperback Library, 1967). Although both covers are dominated by Kalin’s painting, the NEL version stands out as the better of the two due to the designer’s selection of a title font that echoes the gothic details of the artwork.
Look Here: “The Invisible Beast” and “The Abominable Snowman” by Arnold Lobel
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SOURCE: Jack Prelutsky, The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight: More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep (NY: Greenwillow Books, 1980), illustrated by Arnold Lobel.
Look Here: Another eight illustrations by Sergius Hruby
According to the RCN webstats, the various posts here of illustrations by Sergius Hruby have been sorta-kinda popular, so in the interest of sucking up to the faceless semi-horde, here’s yet another (and probably the last) more or less random display of Hruby, selected, processed, and posted by me from the Austrian humour/men’s magazine, Die Muskete, via the online archive of the Austrian National Library:
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Specific publication information for each image is included in the file name, as usual.
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