Look Here: Two more SF covers with art by Don Ivan Punchatz

2 December 201310 August 2016 RC1 Comment

Only a day after I almost apologized for not posting more often since the summer, and I’m back with two more covers scanned from the magnificent mouldering heap that I laughingly refer to as my personal library:

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**ABOVE:** John Jakes, *On Wheels* (NY: Warner, 1973), 75-123, with cover art by Don Ivan Punchatz.

**ABOVE:** Mike Resnick, *The Three-Legged Hootch Dancer* (NY: Signet, 1983), 451-AE2082, with cover art by Don Ivan Punchatz.

To view all of the covers with art by Don Ivan Punchatz (1936 – 2009) that I’ve posted so far, click here and scroll down.

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Look Here · Stanislaw Fernandes

Look Here: Two by Clarke and two by Moorcock with cover art by Fernandes

1 December 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Since I started TRANSISTORADIO back in August, I have been even slower to post new stuff here at RCN than I used to be, but this evening, I found the time to scan and process four covers with airbrush art by Stanislaw Fernandes, whose work has been featured once before here at RCN. Enjoy!

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**ABOVE:** Arthur C. Clarke, *Reach for Tomorrow* (NY: Ballantine, 1972), 29474, with cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes.

**ABOVE:** Arthur C. Clarke, *Childhood’s End* (NY: Ballantine, 1974), 29730, with cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes.

**ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *The Cornelius Chronicles* (NY: Avon, 1977), 31468, with cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes.

**ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *An Alien Heat* (NY: Avon, 1977), 34611, with cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes.

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

Look Here: THE DEEP and two others with cover art by Richard Powers

24 November 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Here at RCN, we are unaccountably proud of our unsung power to distract an uncommunicative coterie of unwashed hipsters from the unbounded corruption of the uncaring world with an unsteady stream of unprofessional scans of unsound books from the unkempt collection of RCN’s undistinguished doofus-in-chief, yours truly. Like these, for instance:

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**ABOVE:** John Crowley, *The Deep* (NY: Berkley, 1976), D3163, with cover art by Richard Powers.

**ABOVE:** Clifford D. Simak, *The Goblin Reservation* (NY: Berkley, 1969), S1671, with cover art by Richard Powers.

**ABOVE:** Zach Hughes, *The Stork Factor* (NY: Berkley, 1975), N2781, with cover art by Richard Powers.

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Leo and Diane Dillon · Look Here

Look Here: Two Bantam New Age Books with lovely cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon

17 November 201310 August 2016 RC2 Comments

I have all sorts of used books in my personal library that I purchased I can’t remember when for maybe a quarter or fifty cents a piece just for the cover art, including these, which I just scanned for display here at RCN:

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**ABOVE:** Madonna Kolbenschlag, *Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-Bye* (NY: Bantam, 1981), with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon.

**ABOVE:** Shakti Gawain, *Creative Visualization* (NY: Bantam, 1985), with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon.

Shakti Gawain? Of course, Shakti Gawain! Would anyone in the 1980s have purchased new-age claptrap like Creative Visualization had it been penned by Mike Smith from Canmore, Alberta? Not bloody likely!

And will you look at that: both the copyright page and the author’s acknowledgement credit the Creative Visualization cover art to Rainbow Canyon… wait, what? Rainbow Canyon? Of course, Rainbow Canyon! It’s perfect!

The other cover is uncredited, but you and I both know that the art for both Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-Bye and Creative Visualization is by the Dillons, right?

Brad Holland · Illustration Art · Look Here

Connections: (Dali and Halsman) and Holland

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

Look Here: Two SF covers with scintillating and stimulating art by Richard Powers

10 November 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

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.

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Gene Szafran · Illustration Art · Look Here

Look Here: Two Heinleins with cover art by Gene Szafran

7 November 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

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 · Illustration Art · Look Here

Connections: Howard Pyle and Ferdynand Ruszczyc

7 November 201310 August 2016 RC2 Comments

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**ABOVE:** Howard Pyle, *An Attack on a Galleon* (c. 1905).

**ABOVE:** Ferdynand Ruszczyc, *Nec Mergitur* (1905). Via The Pictorial Arts.

Connections: Pyle, Wyeth, Frazetta

TANGENTIAL BONUS IMAGE:

**ABOVE:** Claude Monet, *Morning at Etretat* (1883), oil on canvas, 81 x 63 cm. Via TRANSISTORADIO.

Arnold Lobel · Illustration Art · Look Here

Look Here: “The Headless Horseman” by Arnold Lobel

31 October 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

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 · Photos

Look Here: “Scene of Death […]”

30 October 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

All four of the images posted below come from the website of the Historic Houses Trust (HHT) of New South Wales (NSW), which hosts an amazing digital public archive that includes forensic photography collected and created by the NSW Police between 1912 and 1964:

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“Scene of Death, Marine Drive, Tamarama,” 24 February 1954. Photo by NSW Police Dept. Via HHT.

“Scene of Death, Hotel Metropole, Sydney City,” 15 August 1955. Photo by NSW Police Dept. Via HHT.

“Scene of Death, Wilde Street, Potts Point,” 25 April 1954. Photo by NSW Police Dept. Via HHT.

What intrigues me about the above photographs is how the phrase “Scene of Death” in the “title” of each one opens a valve of imagination in the viewer that the still image — last photo excepted — would probably not so easily twist open sans text… or maybe it’s just me…