HR Giger was born on this day, so here's some of his artwork:
SF Encyclopedia
13.1K posts
SF Encyclopedia
@SFEncyclopedia
Twitter feed for the online edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, principal editors John Clute and David Langford.
- Frank Herbert died on this day, so here are four Dune-related Japanese book covers (couldn't identify artists, but suspect 石森章太郎 either did 2nd & 3rd or the 4th):
- Artist Shaun Tan was born on this day, so here's some of his work:
- Artist Wayne Douglas Barlowe, best known for 'Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials', was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art:
- Katsuhiro Ōtomo was born on this day, so here's some of his artwork:
- Artist Jean Giraud - aka Moebius - died on this day; best known for his comics and film work, he also provided the illustrations for many book covers, so here's some of them:
- Artist Noriyoshi Ōrai died on this day, so here's some of his artwork:
- Artist HR Giger died on this day, so here's some images from his 1977 collection "H.R. Giger's Necronomicon":
- Illustrator Jerome Podwil was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art (the 2nd is for A Bertram Chandler's ' Empress of Outer Space', the 3rd for Poul Anderson's 'The Enemy Stars' and the 4th for Philip K Dick's 'A Crack in Space':
- Frank Frazetta was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art:
- HP Lovecraft died on this day, so here are some of his Japanese covers (1st artist is named on bottom row, centre left; couldn't identify the others). The 3rd is a manga adaptation.
- Philip K Dick was born on this day, so here are most of his US magazine cover art appearances (artist: Ed Emshwiller, Milton Luros, Frank Kelly Freas and Lloyd Birmingham):
- Artist Rick Sternbach was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art:
- Artist David A. Hardy was born on this day, so here are some of his covers:
