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  1. 4 Aug


    A shocked woman has two lizard monster hands draped over her bare shoulders. Some skin on her chin has flaked off to reveal green scales, and she has a thin forked tongue.ALT

    1987 cover art by Jim Warren for “Transformation,” by Edmund Plante

     

  2. 3 Aug


    A wraparound cover features a human man in a bowtie behind an alien bar, with aliens including a big humanoid maggot in a cape, a bunch of smaller beetle-snail aliens, and a bulky guy with a shell-like head.ALT

    Ron Walotsky’s 1985 cover for Larry Niven’s “Limits” is a great Space Crowd Saturday. The alien glassware is a nice touch, including the one that contains an entire gooey red alien patron.

     

  3. 31 Jul


    A white outline of Saturn and its rings is visible in a blue sky, above a snowy plane surrounded by mountains.ALT

    Looks like Chesley Bonestell’s famous “Saturn as Seen from Titan” artwork is going on sale soon, from the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen’s estate. It could be yours, assuming you have a spare $50K!

     

  4. 24 Jul


    A sword-and-sorcery style barbarian swings a sword at a cowering goblin. Behind them is an anachronistic white house with a mailbox outside it.ALT

    “Barbarian Zork,” 1982

     

  5. 24 Jul


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    Spotted this in a bookstore in Winnipeg and my wife didn’t know why I was so excited to see it

    Awesome! Thanks for the pic. I’m imagining you saluted my book with a tasteful hint of tears in your eyes.

     

  6. 20 Jul


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    On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. Art by Robert McCall.

     

  7. 10 Jul


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    A woman in a white dress stands among flowers and grass under a blue sky. Behind her is a domed city of dark buildings amid a pinkish light. A few bubbles are floating near her, along with two small aliens wearing tunics, one of whom holds a ray gun.ALT

    Does anyone know if this art was ever used as a book or game cover? It’s by James Talbot, done in 1982. The artist did a number of board game covers for Avalon Hill Games, but I can’t find this one anywhere - it may have just been a portfolio piece.

    Update: It was a portfolio piece! I heard from someone who heard from someone who got in touch with Talbot, who confirmed it. Most likely never published.

     

  8. 8 Jul


    A woman in a white dress stands among flowers and grass under a blue sky. Behind her is a domed city of dark buildings amid a pinkish light. A few bubbles are floating near her, along with two small aliens wearing tunics, one of whom holds a ray gun.ALT

    Does anyone know if this art was ever used as a book or game cover? It’s by James Talbot, done in 1982. The artist did a number of board game covers for Avalon Hill Games, but I can’t find this one anywhere - it may have just been a portfolio piece.

     

  9. 8 Jul


    A board game cover: A silver flying saucer shoots two beams of yellow light down on a city, framed against a rich red sky.ALT

    UFO: Game of Close Encounters, 1976. Design by Tom Dalgliesh

     

  10. 6 Jul


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    The Absolute Sound cover illustrations by Robbii Wessen, 1980’s/90’s

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  11. 30 Jun


    A picture of a can of Arrival, a 5.5% American IPA that uses a 1975 Syd Mead illustration titled "Future Party" as its label.ALT
    A picture of several cans of Lord of the Rings Golden Ale, a beer with a label that uses an illustration of Gandalf majestically standing in front of a hobbit, done by Tom Jung as the poster art for the animated 1978 Lord of the Rings film.ALT

    Washing down my Syd Mead IPA with the Tom Jung Gandalf ale.

     

  12. 21 Jun


    Five iron stilts prop up what looks like a giant red sun, sitting above an overgrown forest landscape.ALT

    Uncredited cover art for a German edition of Thorne Smith’s Topper, c. 1980s.

     

  13. 17 Jun

    Syd Mead

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  14. 5 Jun


    A badass woman holding a dagger, with bags on her feet, stands in hiding on a remote mountain pass, waiting to ambush a lone traveler on horseback.ALT

    Angus McBride, “Ambusher,” 1987

     

  15. 5 Jun


    Zoomed out map view of a green island with a volcano, icy mountains, and a desert on it.ALT

    Hiroo Isono’s back cover artwork for Seiken Densetsu 3, aka Trials Of Mana. Cleaned and retouched by @peachflavor3d