"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"
Once again, RCN presents an assortment of vintage paperback covers scanned from my very own collection of SF “classics”:
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To view all of the paperbacks with cover art by Richard Powers that I’ve posted so far, click here.
From Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, volume 5, number 3 (August 1985), here’s the cover with art by Gahan Wilson along with an amusing fumetti-style collaboration between Gahan Wilson and photographer Arthur Paxton; in the original printing, the photographs ran, in sequence, with each on a separate page:
If you are a fan of Gahan Wilson, you will definitely want to have the magnificent three-volume, slipcased set, Gahan Wilson: Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons, from Fantagraphics Books — recently re-released at a new, lower price! — in your collection.
BONUS LINKS:
Comic Book Resources > 50 Years of Gahan Wilson [interview] by Chris Mautner
The Daily Cross Hatch > Interview: Gahan Wilson Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt.3, Pt. 4
Fantagraphics FLOG! Blog > The Infinite Kim Thompson — inspired by Marvel comics editor Mark Guenwald, “One Day, While Sitting at a Nexus…” is a grainy black-and-white photo-comic written by and starring Fantagraphics co-publisher, Kim Thompson, with photographs by John E. Thompson.
Fantagraphics FLOG! Blog > New Comics Day/Now Available: cheaper Ghost World & Gahan Wilson
Fantagraphics FLOG! Blog > Nuts by Gahan Wilson – Previews, Pre-Order
Fantagraphics FLOG! Blog > Gahan Wilson: Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons BLAD
Ragged Claws Network > Heads Up: NUTS by Gahan Wilson
From Heavy Metal volume 1, number 4, here’s the cover, a full-page illustration, and a couple of short stories by Moebius:
BONUS LINK:
Parka Blogs > Book Review: 40 Days dans le Désert B by Moebius
Notice how Frazetta hasn’t bothered to construct any kind of a harness for the Silver Warrior’s polar bear sleigh team and how Chaykin’s attempt to supply Urlik Skarsol’s polar bear team with a semi-plausible harness — with collars that look as though they might be made out of big, black inner tubes recycled from old truck tires — actually diminishes rather than enhances Frazetta’s gloriously silly original concept by drawing undue attention to the mundane question of how, exactly, the fantasy hero’s cool mode of transportation could be made to work in the real world and whether Chaykin’s design is, in fact, a viable solution.
BONUS IMAGE (Added 27 December 2013):
Take a close look at the full-page picture of the female movie star in the magazine that Norman Rockwell’s Girl at Mirror has in her lap. Now look at the reflection of the woman in Robert McGinnis’s painting for the Carter Brown novel, The Never-Was Girl; see how McGinnis’s model seems to be using her hands as a cover to test how she would look with her hair done up like Rockwell’s movie star; also, simply compare the two faces. Coincidence? I doubt it…
BONUS IMAGE (added 16 January 2014):
ABOVE: Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, Adolescence (1932), etching, 26.5 x 37 cm. Collection of British Council, UK. Via TRANSISTORADIO.
From a 1993 reprint of Two-Fisted Tales #22 (EC, 1951), here’s “Dying City!” with script and layouts by Harvey Kurtzman, pencils by Alex Toth, and inks by Kurtzman:
Of course, in the summer of 2012, “Dying City!” will be back in print, this time from Fantagraphics, which recently acquired the reprint rights to the EC Comics Library and has announced plans to publish a series of volumes focused on individual creators. “Corpse on the Imjin” and Other Stories (including “Dying City!”) by Harvey Kurtzman and his various collaborators (ISBN: 978-1-60699-545-7) will be the first volume in the series.
From Adventures into Terror #10 (June 1952), here’s “The Dark Passage,” with art signed by Ogden Whiteny, who later teamed up with Richard E. Hughes (writing under the pen-name “Shane O’Shea”) to create Alan Moore’s favourite “superhero,” Herbie Popnecker:
The Frazetta cover was published in September 1954; the artwork by Val Mayerik is from a story called “Domain,” with script by Bruce Jones, that appeared in Alien Worlds #1 in December 1982.
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