Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io This one's the sexy Valentine's Day special, all about robots in love. Examples here are by Philippe Caza, Thomas Warkentin, Josh Kirby, and Jack Kirby (no relation).

Just a reminder that the Tom Waits song, "Underground" is in the 2005 animated film, ROBOTS.

Mikhail Belomlinsky- Bard vs. Smaug (The Hobbit) 1976

Mikhail Belomlinsky- Bilbo in Smaug's lair (The Hobbit) 1976

Mikhail Belomlinsky- Bilbo vs. the spiders (The Hobbit) 1976

Mikhail Belomlinsky- Battle of the Five Armies (The Hobbit) 1976

Fred Freeman, ‘Life in 1999,’ 1966

This book. Get it.

Gorgo Loves You

This week's dispatch from @70sscifiart.bsky.social, "Cool Spaceships" is all killer no filler

From the Unquiet Things archives, A Vision Ecstatic: The Art of Noriyoshi Ohrai. "It is said that moviegoers would comment that his illustrations of Godzilla looked even more powerful and violent than the real thing." unquietthings.com/a-vision-ecs...

Art by US artist Barclay Shaw (b. 1949)

Hirō Isono’s famous Mana Tree artwork for Secret of Mana (SNES) ❤️

The Hobbit - pioneering text adventure with sporadic gaudily-filled line drawings based on the novel but with considerably more sitting down and singing about gold, requiring grammatically precise commands to avert constant airborne threat of pale bulbous eyes. timworthington.org/2026/02/03/l...

Ice Ship, 1976 I had this velvet-flocked black light poster on my wall for years as a teenager. It saw me through a whole lot of Dio and Iron Maiden albums. Uncredited artist.

1970s/80s fantasy black light posters, artists uncredited

Mike Jackson’s 1991 illustration of a mallplex for the Night City Guide sourcebook for the Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game depicts a showing of Dune at the movie theater. That’s only a year off from when (the most recent) 'Dune' actually debuted in 2021!

Jim Burns, “Martian Rainbow,” 1990

To deal with the winter cold, share one of your favorite winter movies! 🏔️👮🐺 PATHFINDER / OFELAS / VEIVEISEREN (1987)

To deal with the winter cold, share one of your favorite winter movies! 🏔️👮🐺

A little life advice from Sonny Chiba:

RIP Bob Layzell, May 4, 1940 - Jan 29, 2026. I love his eerie alien planets.

Another sci-fi art legend leaves us. Goodbye Bob Layzell, Terran Trade Authority titan 04/05/1940-29/01/2026

This will never stop being better than any digital effect.

A 1971 greeting card from Marvel comics

Vincent Di Fate, “Refueling Station,” the March 1979 cover to Future Life magazine

I'm ashamed to say I did not know this movie existed until two minutes ago. Instant buy.

My joy at being able to pull thru my last hospital visit has been replaced by the anxiety that it would've been cheaper to die. Just throwing this out there hoping for a miracle. I've got PayPal or cash app too.

Anyway, my family made me a new noren for the kitchen doorway from fabric I've saved for years. MMPR 4 Eva.

1975 Boris Vallejo cover to William Tenn’s "Of Men and Monsters"

Some Rumple-Minze salesman have a discussion with some non-legally-actionable robots on an undisclosed snow planet, by Wayne Boring (1980).

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More morning scraps from Batman. My life is nothing but piles of scraps. A Scrapple of art

Virgil Finlay

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I was tonight years old when I learned that Marc Singer (THE BEASTMASTER) and Lori Singer (FOOTLOOSE) are siblings and I have no clue how I am only finding this out now. Like what the fuck

Hi. This is great. youtu.be/I7xBu-IqlLQ?... #tokusatsu #ultraseven

Prints available at www.jaylenderart.com. Christmas is only 360 days away!

Jim Davis art, and skills on display:

Syd Mead, "Christmas Arrival," 2008

Cover art to 'Look and Learn,' December 1976

Wally Wood.

Great mail day. This cover art by Hector Garrido is gorgeous! The first book could’ve made it onto @70sscifiart.bsky.social time machines post. Some nostalgic reading is in order.

Ardath Mayhar, How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980. Cover: Peter Bowman. Tales of the Triple Moons series no 1. #ArdathMayhar #SidgwickJackson #PeterBowman

Frank Kelly Freas

Do you remember what this sounded like? The 1978 Milton-Bradley Star Bird had engine sounds that changed pitch according to the angle of tilt:

In the late '70s, the Micronauts Mobile Exploration Lab was one of the coolest toys you could get