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Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Look Here · Richard Powers

Look Here: Three SF covers with art by Powers, one with art by Schoenherr

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Today RCN has got four freshly scanned selections from my personal archive of disintegrating SF paperback pulp for your viewing pleasure:

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I don’t know much about John Schoenherr’s career in illustration, but I must say, Schoenherr’s painting for the 1961 Ace edition of Brunner’s Meeting at Infinity is a surreal stunner that even the universally acknowledged king of surreal SF cover art himself, Richard Powers, must have envied when he first laid eyes on it. For a minute or two. Maybe.

To view all of the scans of covers with art by Richard Powers that I’ve posted here at RCN, click here. And don’t forget to click the “Older posts” link when you get to the bottom of the page.

Keywords: The Star Dwellers, The High Crusade, A Far Sunset, Meeting at Infinity.

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Look Here · Robert McGinnis

Look Here: Trees, fields, and heath by Robert McGinnis

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I wish I had the third volume in Conrad Richter’s “The Awakening Land” series — The Town — with the cover by Robert McGinnis, available in my collection to scan and post, but I don’t. In fact, it’s not easy to come by any of the three volumes, with McGinnis covers, at a decent price. So if you have a copy, count yourself lucky. And if you want to scan it and send it to me so I can post it here at RCN, I will happily accept your contribution!

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The credit for the cover of Wuthering Heights reads as follows: “Cover painting by Bob McGuinness.” My assumption is that “McGuinness” is a typo and that the artist is actually McGinnis. But my sincere apologies to Mr. McGuinness if that is not in fact the case.

You will find a different version of the painting, with the woman in the exact same pose, at TIN CAN FULL OF GOLD.

Finally, you can click here to view all of the covers by Robert McGinnis that I’ve posted here at RCN thus far.

Keywords: The Trees, The Fields, Wuthering Heights.

Admin Announcements · Look Here · Poladorid Pictures

Look Here: Poladroid Gallery, 31 May to 07 June 2012

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Ragged Claws Network has been rather active on Twitter during the past week. Maybe too active: I can tell because I’m starting to get depressed; too much internet does that to me, and yet, I just can’t help myself. But just so you don’t think I’m neglecting the blog, here (in no particular order) are all of the Poladroid (Poladroided?) pictures that I’ve posted to Twitter so far (minus a few that I’ve already posted here, but including one that I made but then didn’t post):

See what you’re missing! (What’s that you say? A whole lot of nothing? Maybe so, dear reader; maybe so…)

Anyhoo, in case you’re wondering — and why wouldn’t you be? — I started out resizing my Poladroids down to 300 pixels wide. Then I up-sized the downsize to 400 pixels. And that was okay. However, I have since come to the conclusion that a 425 pixel width is optimal for the Twitter-feed layout.

And what has my sterling effort wrought in terms of readership?

As of today, 07 June 2012, at 9:26 am — with 85 tweets under the bridge, not to mention seven big retweets (three each by @fantagraphics and @Xav73r, and one by @studygroup12) — @RaggedClawsNet has three (!) followers — one is a tremendously talented cartoonist, another is posting numerous Nietzsche quotations every day in an effort to sell a Nietzsche ebook for a buck, and a third is indecipherable to me. True, I had to delete a few followers whose home page links led to material not suitable for minors, but other than that, progress is being made, right?

Hello?