Rebels of Mars

When alien postage stamps attack!

Dance of the Firefly

I found this at YouTube while looking for other stuff.

Cross-posted at The Sudden Curve

Posted by Tom Ender who wishes a Happy New Year to all !

Even more Astounding!

Space Artist, Kelly Freas, did the wonderful Christmas covers for Astounding!

Astounding Christmas' Past

Quisp Cereal - now I've seen everything

Yes, you can find anything online - including everyone's favorite galactic breakfast - Quisp Cereal. And there is even a Quisp store too, with the whole Quisp story.

posted by Tom Novak who could use some Quazy Energy these days.

Roy Krenkel original ~ FOUND after 40 years

Wow! This is a historic and important find. It's Ace Space Artist, Roy Krenkel Jr's (or as we know him, RGK) first cover for an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel and one of our all time favorite covers and stories, At The Earth's Core, - and it's been lost for forty years.

Fortunately, it is now safe and sound in the private collection of classic sci fi aficionado Steve X (name withheld to deter hordes of home invading space art fans) who sent the image and tale in to us - Thanks, Mister X. He knows our appreciation of all things Burroughs' Tradition. And make no mistake about it, gang, this is a genuine one-of-a-kind item that will only increase in value. Everyone can see the full size work, in low resolution - 'natch to foil space art pirates -here

posted by Tom Novak, who says we need to ferret out all of these classic covers and put on a show ... in the barn maybe?

RGK ~ Space Artist Roy Krenkel

ERB Artist Roy Krenkel, Jr.

Roy Krenkel did a lot of the covers for the early  '60's ACE editions of ERB's Barsoom and Tarzan books.  Born around 1918,  he studied for a year with George Bridgman at the Art Students' League circa 1938, but other than that, his misspent youth consisted of "drawing a lot, reading and collecting art books, going to art museums, and associating with a few other young art students," according to Sanford Zane Meschkow in his preface to the excellent 1974 Cities and Scenes From the Ancient World.

Later, he studied with Burne Hogarth at the Cartoonists' and Illustrators' School. There he met Al Williamson, who was to become a lifelong friend and collaborator. For a while in the late 1940's and early 1950's, Roy worked with other Hogarth alumni doing comic book stories.

He once commented  he "did the minimal amount of commercial work that would give me just enough to live on so I could spend his time drawing my own ideas -- with no one to please but myself."

Roy's knowledge of art led ACE Books to hire him to produce covers for their early '60's revival of the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. His three dozen books started a revival of fantasy fiction in that decade. The earliest At The Earth's Core. Halfway through the project, he enlisted Frank Frazetta's help. The thought of the self-effacing Krenkel trying to convince the self-assured Frazetta that Frank would actually be a success at painting goes contrary to everything we know about the two men. Still, after a couple of collaborative efforts, Roy sent Frank out on his own and the rest is history.

Krenkel died in 1983, and six years later Eclipse books released Swordsmen and Saurians, a wonderful coffee table book devoted to the subjects Roy loved most to draw. There was even a limited edition which featured, in lieu of a signature, an original drawing in every copy.

In 1963, Krenkel won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who can't sing, dance or draw, either.

Space Artist Michael Whelan

Space Artist Gahan Wilson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Gahan Wilson (born February 18, 1930) is an author, cartoonist, and illustrator in the United States. His cartoons and illustrations are drawn in a playfully grotesque style and have a dark humor reminiscent of Charles Addams.

He was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1930. His cartoons and prose-fiction work has appeared regularly in Playboy, Collier's Weekly, The New Yorker and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. For the last he also wrote some movie and book reviews. He has been a book-review columnist for The Twilight Zone Magazine and Realms of Fantasy magazine.

His comic strip Nuts, which appeared in National Lampoon, was a reaction against the saccharine view of childhood in strips like Peanuts. His hero The Kid sees the world as a dark, dangerous and unfair place, but just occasionally a fun one too.

Wilson also wrote and illustrated a short story for Harlan Ellison's anthology Again, Dangerous Visions (1972). The "title" is a black blob, and the story is about an ominous black blob that appears on the page, growing at an alarming rate, until...

Additionally, Gahan Wilson created a computer game titled 'The Ultimate Haunted House', in conjunction with Byron Preiss. The goal is to collect 13 keys in 13 hours from the 13 rooms of a house, by interacting in various ways with characters (such as a two-headed monster, a mad scientist, and a vampiress), objects, and the house itself.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who remembers Gahan as the first artist whose name I ever remembered