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atomic-chronoscaph · 1 month

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Alien: The Illustrated Story - art by Walter Simonson (1979)

#walter simonson #alien: the illustrated story #heavy metal magazine #graphic novel #70s sci-fi art #alien #archie goodwin #comic art #70s movies #seventies #1979

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70sscifiart · 9 months

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MUFON - the “oldest and largest civilian UFO-investigative organization in the United States” - kindly gave me permission to include these great 1977-'79 flyer designs in my art book Worlds Beyond Time.

My favorite is the 1978 flyer, because it elegantly illustrates the four different kinds of close encounter: Visual sighting, physical evidence, encountering an entity, and abduction. Just very cool design!

If you want a lot more retro UFO art, this link lists all the stores that are selling it (some might be out of stock, but most are good).

#70s sci-fi art #UFOs #MUFON

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cluboftigerghost · 11 months

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Dean Ellis https://ift.tt/13XcF8J

#IFTTT #70s Sci-Fi Art

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thefugitivesaint · 1 year

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Bruce Pennington, 'The Green Brain', ''Science Fiction Monthly'', Vol. 1, #6, 1974 Source

#bruce pennington #american artists #science fiction monthly #the green brain #frank herbert #book covers #cover designs #70s sci-fi art #science fiction #skulls

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liiimbo · 1 month

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#70s Sci-Fi Art

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 2 months

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TAKE A TRIP TO THE SUPER-SEVENTIES IN THE MIGHTY MARVEL MANNER.

"If you understand "2001" completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered."

-- STANLEY KUBRICK on "2001…"

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a splash page of Bowman's interstellar trip, from "2001: A Space Odyssey" Marvel Treasury Edition Vol. 1 #1. January, 1976. Marvel Comics.

Story/pencils by Jack "King" Kirby

Inks by Frank Giacoia

Colors by Marie Severin & Jack Kirby

Source: https://steps-centre.org/blog/the-world-has-become-weird-crisis-natures-and-radical-re-enchantment.

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amberspacedf · 2 years

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The coolest band this side of the cosmos

#twrp #twrp fanart #twrp band #doctor sung #commander meouch #lord phobos #havve hogan #poster #70s sci-fi art #digital art

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mysticalblizzardcolor · 6 days

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70s Sci-Fi Art

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downthetubes · 9 months

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Out Now: Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s

Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s offers a glorious retrospective of SF-inspired imagery the artists who created some extraordinary images

Worlds Beyond Time is a new book out now from Adam Rowe, published by Abrams, described as the definitive visual history of the spaceships, alien landscapes, cryptozoology, and imagined industrial machinery of 1970s paperback sci-fi art, and the artists who created these extraordinary images. In the 1970s, mass-produced, cheaply printed science-fiction novels were thriving. The paper was rough,…

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#70s Sci-Fi Art #Adam Rowe #British Comics - Books #downthetubes News #Worlds Beyond Time

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atomic-chronoscaph · 4 months

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The Black Hole - art by David Mattingly (1979)

#david mattingly #the black hole #70s sci-fi art #questar magazine #walt disney pictures #cover art #70s sci-fi #70s movies #seventies #1979

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atomic-chronoscaph · 1 year

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The Martian Chronicles - art by Ian Miller (1979)

#ian miller #the martian chronicles #70s sci-fi art #ray bradbury #sci-fi art #sci-fi novels #science-fiction #seventies #1979

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70sscifiart · 10 months

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Black Mirror and retro sci-fi paperback cover art

Someone on the Black Mirror team really knows their late-60s sci-fi paperbacks! Spoilers for Season 6 ep "Beyond the Sea."

This paperback is a 1967 edition of Ray Bradbury's 'The Illustrated Man,' with a top-tier Dean Ellis cover.

Ellis was a great paperback artist: He balanced one central image with intricate details, making covers simple yet engaging. Ellis covers don't usually have this much ennui, which makes this one a particularly good pick for the episode, about an astronaut who also feels alone.

The other main paperback featured in the episode is a 1968 edition of 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress,' by Robert A. Heinlein, with a cover by Paul Lehr.

Lehr is an icon of 60s/70s covers, so he's a great artist to include. This particular cover has one of his signature tropes - A crowd of tiny figures gathering around a single object, in this case a moon base.

That said, that particular Lehr cover looks more similar to the style of Richard Powers (a surreal 50s artist who influenced Lehr) than is typical for Lehr. Here are a few other 1968 Lehr covers that I think represent him better, with more shadows and monochrome.

But here's what blows my mind: We never see the cover to one paperback spine in this scene. It's this 1967 Richard Powers cover, with the yellow spine.

It seems to show a man enviously watching a woman from behind a screen - incredibly on-the-nose symbolism for this episode.

I wonder if the prop person for the show came up with multiple options and the Powers cover lost out to the Lehr one. Either way, it's an amazing Easter egg.

If you liked this, subscribe to my newsletter - My latest issue covers Black Mirror’s retro sci-fi cover art in more depth. You might also enjoy my art book Worlds Beyond Time, which has a restored version of that exact Dean Ellis Illustrated Man cover in it.

#Black Mirror #Beyond the Sea #retro sci-fi #paperbacks #cover art #70s sci-fi art #newsletter #Worlds Beyond Time #dean ellis #Paul Lehr #Richard Powers

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atomic-chronoscaph · 11 months

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