"This day's experience, set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside." –Alice Munro, "What is Remembered"
Freshly scanned from my personal collection of old vinyl, here are two classic album covers with art by Roger Huyssen:
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The above scans were made possible by our recently acquired cheapo 11 x 17 inch flatbed scanner, although it still takes two passes per album cover, plus a bit of stitching with Microsoft Image Composite Editor, and some futzing around in GIMP, to get to the final JPEGs.
It’s a thankless job, but…
Neither of the following two SF covers from the mid 1970s includes a credit for the cover artist, neither artist signed his work in a spot that couldn’t easily be cropped out, and neither artist has been identified by other means by the folks at isfdb.org or any other reputable site, but based on appearances, I would say that the two covers are, at the very least, very likely by the same hand…
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UPDATE:
Shortly after I posted the above scans, a reader, Cyrille, delurked to say that the artist might be Peter Lloyd. And you know what? I think Cyrille is right!
RELATED LINK (added 06 October 2013):
Look Here: One lovely cover with antiseptic airbrush art by Peter Lloyd — which brings the total number of “Lloyd” covers here at RCN to three (so far).
Time for some more cover scans from the library of yours truly! This time around, I’ve got three SF paperbacks with art by British illustrator Chris Foss, whose airbrushed visions of massive starships, architecture, and hardware spawned a legion of imitators back in the 1970s (and beyond):
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I have already posted these two images, the Loois yesterday and the Magritte today, at TRANSISTORADIO, but I think the connection might be of interest to folks here, too. And I suppose it also gives you an idea of what you’ve been missing if you’ve not been paying attention to what I’ve been posting over there.
From Young Romance vol. 5, no. 2 (#38), here’s “Cagey Mary”; the script and art are uncredited, and comics.org doesn’t attribute the work to anyone, but I am quite sure the artist is Bill Draut, whose early, underappreciated contributions to comics have been featured here at RCN several times over the years:
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The printing on “Cagey Mary” is atrocious, but also, in a strange way, lovely…
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From Classics Illustrated #5: Moby Dick (March 1956), here are a pair of low-quality scans of Norman Nodel’s original art for pages one and forty five, along with a pair of really low-quality scans of the printed pages, and yet, the beauty of Norman Nodel’s fine-lined compositions shines through:
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You can learn a little bit about Jewish comics artist Norman Nodel (born Nochem Yeshaya) at the Lambiek Comiclopedia.
Here are four novels with cover art by Robert Foster that I acquired this spring:
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Unfortunately, the edition of Davy that you see above is not the one I would prefer to own. The edition that I would prefer to own is the one that shows more of Robert Foster’s artwork and thus doesn’t drain all of the surrealism out of it:
You can view a snapshot of Foster’s painting, framed and hanging on somebody’s wall, over on the Illustration Exchange site, where you’ll find the following particulars: 19 x 25 inches, acrylic, 1964.
An all-star roster of artists has contributed prints and original art — see gallery page one and page two — to Macab Films to support the documentary, Better Things: The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones, and Bill Cox, a “premium gallery owner” at ComicArtFans.com, has stepped up to assist with the sale of the works.
At the moment, twelve prints are available for purchase, including these three:
And thirty-three (!) original drawings and paintings are available, including these five:
If you have the money to spend, your support will be greatly appreciated, I have no doubt, so act now to reserve your favourites. Those links again: prints, original art page one, original art page two.
BONUS NONSENSE:
I wonder… do you suppose it is possible that Bill Sienkiewicz based the composition of the painting he donated to Better Things on the following illustration by Jones himself:
Just for fun, here’s a side-by-side:
You know what? I think it’s possible… or maybe it’s just a lovely coincidence…
NSFW, obviously…
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