Christmas came early in September, with the publication of “Joy to the World, the Christmas Card Art of George Barr” from American Fantasy Press of Dekalb, IL. Check out the column for more information!
The 2027 Rivet of Robots wall calendar is now available to order. Each month features a Bot plus its original story. Lynne Fahnestalk has been making robots from found materials for years, has won awards […]
I came across this video from Nerdforge on Facebook. Nerforge self-describes as: “YouTubers making fantasy art & crafts videos”. And they refer to the project highlighted here as one of the “dumbest”projects they’ve ever attempted: […]
** MEDIA ALERT ** BLEACH Comes to Life in Los Angeles with First-of-Its-Kind Artist Gallery Experience During Anime Expo Week More Than 20 World-Renowned Artists Reimagine Ichigo, Rukia and the Soul Society Through […]
Tim Kirk, who famously created illustrations for Harlan Ellison’s Last Dangerous Visions now has a book out featuring all of that wonderful artwork. You can support the project by backing the current Kickstarter Campaign. Watch […]
As a follow-up to his 2014 columns about the Winston “juveniles” SF series in the 1950s, Steve today looks at some of the significant covers and cover artists who helped make these books a commercial success, and which also helped spur many young people into reading science fiction.
Empezando con una gran disculpa. A finales de enero y principios de febrero, volví a mudarme y pues no pude hacer mucho más que poner en orden el nuevo departamento. Sigo en esas, así que […]
This week Steve reviews a new art book by Toronto’s Martin Springett, artist, designer, musician, composer and writer. If you like fantasy art and illustration, you might just enjoy this book.
Print length : 130 pages ISBN-13 : 979-8267772990 Item Weight : 14.1 ounces Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.31 x 11 inches 6 Out of 5 Stars I LOVE Science Fiction Art […]
En primer lugar, quiero disculparme por mi larga ausencia. He tenido un mes muy difícil y cargado. Lamentablemente Octubre está empezando igual. Espero poder ser más conzistente con las publicaciones. LIBROS Maquinaciones narrativas ha presentado […]
Mr. Trek has undertaken a personal five year mission – to create a 1/25th, highly detailed, with INTERIORS!, scale model of everyone’s favorite (oh, ok, tied with everyone’s favorite) Starship, Star Trek’s Constitution Class Cruiser, […]
Zero, Cecilia. Chica Cafeína. Lima: Alfaguara, 2024. 147 pp. Ilustraciones de Joan Ulloa. Cecilia Zero es una escritora que inició su carrera literaria a temprana edad, dándonos uno de los libros más significativos de las […]
Dear Reader, Hope you’re well. Sorry for being out of touch. Grief is a peculiarly strange condition. I publish this as an experiment. It is part epistle, part conversation. Everything here is “true” in the […]
Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz has recently been released by the Folio Society in a wickedly expensive (and sold out) edition that features illustrations by artist Eliot Lang. The art for the […]
Among my collecting indulgences can be found trading cards. I caught the bug when the first set of Batman cards was released by Topps. My friends and I were big fans of the show and […]
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An excerpt from the graphic novel Side Quest – A Visual History of Role Playing Games, written by Samuel Sattin and illustrated by Steenz Which you can buy here! Samuel Sattin adapted Academy Award–nominated […]
Blame it on Boskone. Blaming the long-established Boston science fiction convention with its superb art show absolves Russ Handelman and me for turning us into art collectors. Before Boskone, I had been picking up the […]
For his last column of 2023, Steve revisits (and revises) one he posted nine years ago. Is it still relevant? You decide.
Steve shares the “secrets” of the photography he does of his wife’s—the Beautiful and Talented Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk’s—robot sculptures. He hopes you’ll find it interesting.
Planet Stories, Satellite Science Fiction, Unknown, Science Fantasy, Vanguard Science Fiction – these are some of the greatest magazine covers of all time.
Many more Great magazine covers from the world of science fiction
Well, at least according to me!
“It was a silly idea for a humorous cover for Amazing Stories [see below]. We never did make a painting of it, but I kept the sketch. It was just an idea perhaps for a […]
Morris Scott Dollens created hundreds of pieces of cover art during his career, many featuring the same rocketship!
These winners are featured in Writers of the Future Volume 39. For over 34 years, the Illustrators of the Future Contest has been discovering and nurturing aspiring artists and providing a platform for their artistic […]
Cartoonist and author Trina Robbins—the first woman to draw Wonder Woman—began reading at the age of four. But she began drawing even earlier. “It was as soon as I could hold a crayon in my […]
The recent class-action lawsuit brought against Stability Ai has had implications for how ai generated art will move forward, but the most interesting thing is how so much is assumed and misunderstood about all the […]
Watching the copyrights on art expire still feels like a novelty. After all, the US public domain was frozen in time for 20 years, thawing only in 2019. But this weekend’s Public Domain Day will […]
Written By Ron Miller Here is the first half of some thoughts about AI art that I jotted down recently— I can see really only two broad applications of AI in the arts: fine arts/gallery […]
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