Today's cool Newtype cover: Z Gundam Char Aznable themed! This was very early in the magazine's run (September 1985), but they were already knocking it out of the ballpark on the cool covers front.

Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow, all about brains in sci-fi! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io Here's a sneak peek, featuring Carlos Ochagavia, Bruce Pennington, Jean-Francois Penichoux, and an uncredited artist.

Remembering J.G. Ballard, born OTD 1930. I’ve been reading his work for many years & I can readily appreciate why many qualify his writing as ‘timeless’. And I can think of no better imagery to accompany this post than the equally timeless appeal of David Pelham’s superlative cover art 🙂

The box art for Team 17's The Speris Legacy was illustrated by Mark Taylor. I'm not sure whether this is the same Mark Taylor (1941–2021) known for his involvement in the creation of Mattel’s Masters of the Universe (MOTU) franchise

Happy Control Panel Saturday, with this tiny frontal lobe control room from Roger Dean’s 1973 cover art for 'Gold the Man,' by Joseph Green

Why, it’s Moebius himself alongside his Major Grubert in a Tatooine marketplace, from 2010’s “Star Wars Art: Visions”.

Art by Jean Giraud/Moebius #ComicArt

CHANUR’S BREAKOUT (1991) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30” X 22” An opportunity to paint C.J. Cherryh’s catlike Hani was always welcome. I was fortunate to have done several covers for this popular series, yet for CHANUR’S LEGACY I came up with more new concepts than ever before. 1/5

Bruce Pennington

Artist Ian Miller (1946-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... #scifi #sciencefiction Cover: 1975

Anne McCaffrey, Decision at Doona, Corgi, 1971. Cover: Bruce Pennington. One of @70sscifiart.bsky.social favourite cat covers. #AnneMcCaffrey #caturday #cat #BrucePennington

Brian Edwards. #BrianEdwards

So that was Friday November 7th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another day (more or less) here. So it goes. (Released this very month in 1972, just 53 years ago, Star Trek #17, with its painted cover by George Wilson.) And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.

Jeff Wack, Smoking Desert, 1980

'Spellbound' art Jakub Rebelka #fantasyart

Anne McCaffrey, The Crystal Singer, Severn House, 1982. Cover: Steve Weston. Crystal Singer series no. 1. #AnneMcCaffrey #SevernHouse #SteveWeston #crystal #singer

Cool photo I took a few seconds after waking up when Joe Camel hit me with his car

Space art by Ludek Pesek, Ron Miller, Don Dixon, John R Foster (all 1980s)

Ron Walotsky's cover art detail for Michael Bishop's brilliant collection Catacomb Years (1979) #scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

"Vampire Mother" art by Jeffrey Catherine Jones (1974) #horrorart

@70sscifiart.bsky.social knocking it out of the park again this week. Each image screamed, "Yes, Monday is like this."

Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow, all about master of disaster Walter Molino! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io Here's a sneak peek, featuring a few of his best works.

Moebius did some concept art for ALIEN - Ridley Scott was a fan of the Metal Hurlant magazine and Giraud was one of their artists - and one thing that stood out to me was his spacesuits. This helmet is similar to one Giraud drew, it's a fantastic design. It feels real and bulky and looks fantastic.

John Berkey for King Kong (1976) #70s #KingKong

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Artist: Walter Molino

Hobtown Mystery Stories (@hobtown.bsky.social): only the latest will be released this year, but I absolutely devoured all 3 of these fantasy-horror comics about mystery-solving 90s teens in Nova Scotia. The 2nd was especially traumatic (I read it twice 👀). They put the "graphic" in graphic novel

STOP THE PRESSES. The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one. Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon. @hg101.bsky.social

Skeletal sci-fi art by Bruce Pennington, Takuro Kamiya, Al Feldstein, and Ed Valigursky.

Very sorry to hear of the passing of UK artist Peter Knifton. I had some personal dealings with Peter few years ago when he kindly let me use his ‘space pyramid’ cover for one of my albums. He was a gentleman. Rest well Peter.

The traditional resharing of a poem I once wrote 🎃

Did someone say tea ? Robert Holdstock & Christopher Priest (eds.), Stars of Albion, Pan, 1979. Cover: Bob Norrington.

Koronis Rift: One of Lucasfilm Games' earlier titles and another dabble in fractal graphics alongside Rescue on Fractalus and The Eidolon. Published by Epyx, one of the kings of the 8-bit micros in the US.

me at the Costco wading through the Halloween crap

sittin on the dock of the bay

💀𝓗𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝓗𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖊𝖓! New piece acquired by one of my favorite artists Luis Royo 🧡

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We don't talk enough about the brilliant work that artist Jesse Santos did for bottom-of-the-barrel comic publishers like Gold Key. Just look at this Doctor Spektor cover art!

"I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear." - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Remembering the incredible work of the late great Bernie Wrightson on his birthday 🖤

'Seawrack' - Wayne Barlowe (1994) #scifiart

illustration, load sinclair, magazine (1986) archive.org/details/Load...

1975 Topps Marvel Comic Book Heroes Trading Card stickers — Monster edition! 1/2

Art by Dean Ellis (1920-2009)

Jennell Jaquays

As pointed out by Mark Pilkington back in the 1990s it has an uncanny resemblance with a panel from Flash Gordon: Ice Kingdom, 1939. gideonreid.co.uk/giant-aliens...

Uncredited artist depiction of the 1976 Canary Islands UFO: Two tall humanoid beings are seen inside a spherical UFO wearing red clothing and head gear. The UFO flies away at “breakneck speeds.”

the cube!!!!!!

Another glorious shot of the underside of the refinery from ALIEN (1979). I like to imagine that the towers are doing the refining and the finished product is stored in these domes, which can be detached and moved to where they're needed, or attached to other ships.