Robert Bloch sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bloch_... died on this day, so here's interior magazine art for some of his stories 1935-1937 (Artist: 1 Vincent Napoli, 2-4 Virgil Finlay). 3rd for "The Black Kiss" co-written with Henry Kuttner; 4th for "Fane of the Black Pharaoh". All from 'Weird Tales':

Richard Wilson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wilson... was born on this day, so here are some of his book and magazine covers (artist: Richard Powers, Frank Kelly Freas, Eddie Jones and Ed Emshwiller):

Stuart J Byrne sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/byrne_... and Richard Tooker sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tooker... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Bill Hughes, Reed Crandall, Melvin Hansen and Leo Morey). The 2nd was for "Tarzan On Mars" by 'John Bloodstone' (a Byrne pseudonym):

Artist Romas B Kukalis sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kukali... and author Wilmar H Shiras sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/shiras... were born on this day: some artwork (1&2 Kukalis, 3 Frank Kelly Freas, 4 Lela Dowling). 1st 'Steel Rain' by Nyx Smith; 2nd 'The Perils of Quadrant X' by JJ Gardner/Nancy Krulik:

Otfrid von Hanstein sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hanste... was born on this day: his novel "Mond-Rak I: Eine Fahrt ins Weltall: Ein Zukunftsroman" (Germany 1929) had a French edition (as "Jusqu'a la Lune en Fusée Aérienne") in 1932: here are some of Maurice Toussaint's illustrations for the latter:

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Walter Kubilius sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kubili... died on this day, so here's the interior magazine artwork for some of his 1943-1951 stories (Artist: Paul Callé, Frank R Paul, Hannes Bok and Peter Poulton). 1st for "Journey's End", 4th for "The Gray Cloud":

Elizabeth Bear sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bear_e... was born on this day, so here are some of her book covers (Artist: Stephen Youll, [couldn't identify], Sung Choi and [couldn't identify]):

This week's new SFE entries are here: sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php with author Celia Rees; theme entries for 'Ants' and 'Videophones'; the live action films 'Free Guy' (2021), 'I'm Your Man' (2021), 'The Skin I Live In' (2011) and 'Sorry to Bother You' (2018) ... [tbc]

Edward A Byers sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/byers_... was both born & died this day, Jerry B Oltion sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/oltion... was only born (Artist: John H Butterfield, HR Van Dongen, Hank Jankus, Vincent Di Fate). First three from early 1980's Analog; 2nd for Byers' "The Tactics of Despair":

Paul-Jean Hérault sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/heraul... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: David Jackson, [couldn't identify], Bob Layzell and René Brantonne):

HG Wells sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wells_... was born on this day, so here's some of the cover art for "The Time Machine" (the artists uncredited, but 4th seems to be by Ian Miller). 4th is Miller's artwork for a 1974 edition of The Time machine published by Pan:

Andy Duncan sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/duncan... and Stephen King sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/king_s... were born, whilst Kenji Miyazawa sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/miyaza... died on this day, so here are some of their book covers (Artist: Bob Eggleton, Mezzo, Nicolas Obery and Osamu Tsukasa):

Author Cassandra Rose Clarke sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/clarke... and artist Rod Ruth sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ruth_rod were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Argh! Oxford, Kristina Carroll, Rod Ruth and Rod Ruth):

Charles-Georges-Thomas Garnier sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/garnie... was born on this day, so here are illustrations from the "Cabinet des fées, ou collection de contes des fées et autre contes merveilleux" (1785-89), co-written/edited with Charles J de Mayer (Artist: Clément-Pierre Marillier):

Johnathan Burke sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/burke_... and Charles L Harness sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/harnes... died on this day: some 1950s (JB) & 1980s (CH) magazine art (Artist: Mallory, Gerard Quinn, Gregorian and Janet Aulisio). 2nd for Burke's "Golden Slumbers"; 3rd for Harness's "Biofeedbach":

George RR Martin sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/martin... was born on this day, so here's some of the artwork for his French editions (Artist: Philippe Caza, Olivier Frot, François Allot and François Allot). 3&4 from “L'Agonie de la Lumière” (1980):

Keith Roberts sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/robert... was born on this day, so here are three covers and his interior art for one of his own stories (Artist: Keith Page, [couldn't identify], Diane & Leo Dillon and Keith Roberts):

Charles Williams sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/willia... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: 1&4 Jim Lamb, [couldn't identify], 3 [isfdb says Kat Lee, so either it's in the style of a 19th century illustration or Lee is the cover's designer or suchlike?]):

James P Blaylock sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/blaylo... was born on this day, so here are three book covers and a 1978 magazine illustration (Artist: Geoff Taylor, Dennis Loughner, Arnaud Crémet and [couldn't identify]). 4th for the “Ape-Box Affair”:

Dana Terrace created the excellent Owl House sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/owl_ho... so this is much anticipated, particularly as Glitch has recently produced two top tier animated shows, Murder Drones sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/murder... & The Amazing Digital Circus sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/amazin...

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Tanith Lee sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lee_ta... was born on this day, so here are some of her book covers (Artist: Michael Whelan, Allison, Ken Kelly and Peter Jones):

Author and editor Damon Knight sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/knight... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (artist: Richard Powers, Peter Jones, Jack Gaughan and [uncredited]):

NK Jemisin sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jemisi... was born on this day, so here are some of her book covers (Artist: Paul Lewin, Julie Dillon, [couldn't identify] and Douglas Lopes):

Italo Calvino sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/calvin... died & William Golding sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/goldin... was born on this day: some of their book covers (Artist: 3rd by Paul Hogarth, couldn't identify the others). 1&2 are Farsi editions of Calvino's "If on a Winter's Night..." and "Cosmicomics":

Author Mary Caraker sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/carake... and cartoonist AD Condo sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/condo_... were born on this day, so here are two of Mary Caraker's covers and two of AD Condo's "Mr Skygack, From Mars" cartoon (1907-1917) (Artist: 1 [uncredited], 2 Joe DeVito, 3&4 AD Condo):

David A Kyle (1&2) sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kyle_d... died & Francis Stevens (3&4) sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/steven... was born on this day: some interior magazine art (Artist: 1&2 Vaughn Bodé, 3 Lawrence, 4 Virgil Finlay) 1&2 for 1967's "Base Ten", 3 1950's "Friend Island", 4 1949's "The Elf-Trap"

Bracebridge Hemyng sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hemyng... Jimi Hendrix sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hendri... died, whilst Samuel Johnson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/johnso... was born on this day. The editions of Rasselas are from the first half of the 19th century (Art: ?, Roger Law, Richard Westall, ?):

John Russell Fearn sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fearn_... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers from 1951 (Artist: 1-3 Ron Turner, 4 Philip Mendoza). 'Vargo Statten' was a publisher's house name, though one mostly used by Fearn, as here:

Painter, playwright and author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/witkie... died on this day, so here's some examples of his artwork and book covers:

George MacDonald sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/macdon... died on this day, so here are some of the illustrations from an 1894 edition of his "Phantastes: a Faerie Romance" (Artist: John Bell):

Another quiet day on the anniversary front, so here's some more Interior magazine artwork from Fantastic Adventures (1950-Sept 1951) for authors without a SFE entry: 1 HB Hickey, 2 Frances M Deegan, 3 Walt Sheldon, John McGreevey (Artist: Henry Sharp, Rod Ruth, Robert Gibson Jones and Edd Cartier):

As mentioned a week ago, 'Other Worlds' back covers would often be artwork rather than ads; so here's some more examples, from Jan-May 1953 (Artist: 1&2 Hannes Bok, 3&4 Robert Gibson Jones (re: 4, the Leiber story is in that issue). For me, 2 is one of the great sf illustrations (4 pretty fine too):

Lola Robles sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/robles... and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tsiolk... were born on this day: some artwork. 1 Robles; 2-4 Tsiolkovsky. Couldn't identify artists, but 3&4 are signed: they are illustrations to Tsiolkovsky's short story "On the Moon"(1893).

John Creasey sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/crease... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Karel Thole, Tony Destefano, John Dugan and [couldn't identify]). 'Kyle Hunt' a pseudonym (I don't think the book is genre, but the cover is - same might apply to the 4th):

David Gammon sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gammon... and Fred Mustard Stewart sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/stewar... were born, whilst August Niemann sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/nieman... died on this day; some cover art (Artist: 2nd by Bruce Pennington, couldn't identify the others). 3rd might not be genre:

Interior magazine artwork from Fantastic Adventures (Apr 1948-Jan 1950) for authors without a SFE entry: 1 Frances M Deegan, 2 Robert Wade, 3 Dorothy & John de Courcy, 4 Anthony B Ott (Artist: Henry Sharp, Rod Ruth, Leo Summers and Murphy Anderson). 4th for "Revolt in Pacifico":

Wil McCarthy sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mccart... and Lisa Tuttle sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tuttle... were born on this day, here's some interior magazine art from the 1990s (1&2 McCarthy) and 1980s (3&4 Tuttle) (Artist: David Brian, David Cherry, George Barr, Richard Crist) 2 for "Amerikano Hiaika":

Karen Anderson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/anders... Roscoe Fleming sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/flemin... Amanda Hemingway sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/heming... (aka Jan Siegel) were born this day (Artist: Wallace Wood, Leo Morey, ? and John Howe). 2 for Roscoe Fleming's "The Menace of the Little" (1928):

Rajnar Vajra sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/vajra_... was born on this day, so here's some related magazine artwork (Artist: John Allemand, Bob Eggleton, Joseph Bellofatto ). 3rd for "An I for an I":

Robert Barr sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/barr_r... born on this day. 1 from 'From Whose Bourne' (1893), 2 'Revenge' (1896), 3. 1st ever Sherlock Holmes parody (as by Luke Sharp); Barr was editor of 'The Idler' so 4 from a 1903/04 issue, TC de Leon's “The Glass of Green Chianti” (art: Stephen J Ferris):

Clement Fezandié sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fezand... was born on this day. Here's some interior magazine artwork from Hugo Gernsback's 'Science & Invention' : 1-3 for his Dr Hackensaw tales, plus an article (all from 1921/1922). (Artist: 1-3 Frank R Paul; not sure about the 4th):

Norman Spinrad sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/spinra... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Dean Ellis, O'Brien, Bob Haberfield and Charles Moll). Rather uncomfortably, that fellow on a motorcycle two days in a row!

Howard Waldrop sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/waldro... was born on this day, so here's some interior magazine artwork for his stories (Artist: Stephen Fabian, Takahiko II, Albert Eeckhout and John Duillo). 1st co-written with George RR Martin.

Editor and author KH Scheer sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/scheer... died on this day, so here are some of the covers for the Perry Rhodan magazine 'Atlan', which was edited by him (Artist: all by Johnny Bruck):

This week's new SFE entries are here: sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php - there's quite a few, so here goes: Johannes Anyuru, Adam Aresty, Yvonne Battle-Felton, Andre L Bradley, Jo Callaghan, EJ Copperman, Constance Fay, Megan E Freeman, Clint Hall, Don Hawthorne, David Ignatius, Gabrielle Korn ...

Enjoe Toh sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/enjoe_... and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/yarbro... were born on this day, so here are some of their book covers (Artist: [couldn't identify], [couldn't identify], RS Lonati and Sparth):

John M Faucette sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/faucet... and Jane Lindskold sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lindsk... were born on this day (Artist: Gray Morrow, Frank Kelly Freas, Tom Kidd and Patrick Arrasmith). 3rd is Kidd's artwork for Lindskold's 'Library of the Sapphire Wind' & 'Aurora Borealis Bridge':

Artwork from Fantastic Adventures (1945-Mar 1948) for authors without an SFE entry: 1 Edwin Benson, 2 Alexander Blade, 3 Karl Tanzler von Cosel, 4 Robert Wade [as Lee Francis] (Artist: Jay Jackson, Hadden, Henry Sharp, Malcolm Smith) 'Benson' & 'Blade' house names, authors unknown. 4th for "Zero AD"