Argentine artist Ignacio Noe has published numerous books in a wide range of genres — from children’s books all the way to not-at-all children’s books. His most recent project, an erotic book called The Piano Tuner, just wrapped its Kickstarter funding campaign. You can see examples of his art on his Facebook page (and his […]
French illustrator Jean “Moebius” Giraud is among the elite science fiction and fantasy artists of all time, and the 2010 “Les Voyages d’Hermès” project demonstrates that on a few levels. It’s a stunning work, telling a loose story about a voyage aboard a giant bird — the nine-image portfolio is as elegant a feast for […]
The pulp magazine Weird Tales began publishing in 1923, and is still publishing, albeit sporadically, to this day. Unquestionably, Weird Tales’ glory years stretched from the late ’20s to the late ’30s. In 1928, H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos first saw the light of day with the publication of “Call of Cthulhu” in the pages of […]
Designer Ron Cobb, responsible for the Nostromo spaceship from Alien and the time-traveling DeLorean from Back to the Future, has died at the age of 83. Cobb’s other familiar credits include Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Conan the Barbarian, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and The Last Starfighter. Alien was Cobb’s breakthrough. […]
Rob Shields had an amazing first in Heavy Metal’s history — his cover and feature for issue 289 was Heavy Metal’s first step into augmented reality. Viewing the cover or pages through an AR app, readers could watch animations and unlock hidden content. That was just a small taste of the kind of radically innovative […]
