What SF artist or book cover artwork reminds you of Traveller?
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Andrew Boulton
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Now I remember where I've seen it.
That might be where I first saw it.
G. Fieendish
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I do remember that strip, especially the Gavin "The Walking Battlecruiser" Vs Retarded D&D piece...
As for The Jim Burns "Spaceport" illustration, I first saw it as the front Cover of Harry Harrison's coffee table book Mechanismo, in the late 1970's...
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spinwardpirate
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Awesome! I've seen parts of it on the box for the Citadel Trav minis, but never the whole thing! That's really sweet!
spinwardpirate
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The TTA books always inspired me.
http://www.khantazi.org/Rec/TTABooks/2000half.jpg
http://www.khantazi.org/Rec/TTABooks/2000half.jpg
Andrew Boulton
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Andrew Boulton
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Yeah, love those.
Thunderbolt
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I have it too, signed by Jim Burns himself !!!!
Andrew Boulton
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Starviking
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Ah...Mechanismo, and the infamous 'lurrve machine' somewhere inside...
spinwardpirate
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I love his work. It brings back such delightful memories of being a kid, walking through the science fiction section of the bookstore, wishing for a couple bucks to be able to buy a book. The art had such vibrant colors. These days it seems too many artists dwell on the dark and gloomy side of art.
Peter Elson, for me, is Traveller pre-history, and I mean that in the most sincere and beautiful way. It's one of the foundations for all things I think of as being science-fiction. It's elegant, imaginative, and magnificently rendered art. In fact, as a boy, I thought I might become a conceptual artist because of Elson and the rest of the UK sci-fi artists' circle.
helios1001
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Got to say the Peter Elson is one of my all time favourite artists, he did the covers for a lot of Harry Harrison books that I read when I was a kid that I loved the look of.
Andrew Boulton
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Yeah, PE's one of the greats.
Keklas Rekobah
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I read his bio. I had no idea he'd passed on in the 90s. How very sad.
What a fantastic science fiction visionary. My heart goes out to him and his family. I remember being exposed to his work on a number of sci-fi book covers, and of course the Stewart Cowley books, which I thought were superb. Sorry for sounding like a sycophant, but this man's work really impressed me as a young boy and young man.
At the end of a rough day of school (not being very athletic, suffering dyslexia and depression), Elson's art work would take me away from the drudgery of every day life, and say "Look here. Look at this place, and how fantastic it is and can be. Just come with me into my imagination, and see worlds and places you never dreamed of. I'll take you there, and we can forget about your problems for a few minutes to an hour or so."
That's what Peter Elson's work did for me. It kept me sane and out of trouble, and fired my own imagination for stories and movie concepts.
Other artists had a similar effect, but this belated tribute is to Elson because of his life and circumstances. He will always be a part of me.
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I'm guessing Peter Elson was famous in the UK. Because I had never seen his work until now. In the US, it was Ralph McQuarrie, Robert McCall, and John Harris (famous for the ZX-81 Sinclair manuals used in the States) wherever there were SF art books to look for.
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Gents,
There was an illustrator for the old deadtree JTAS magazine named Barr whose work I always enjoyed.
His drawings were detailed, always humorous to some degree, and somehow bought across the feeling of action. It was if they were snapshots or stills from a video, a feeling I don't always get from an illustration even if it is of "action".
Quickly thumbing through a few issues, he has two illos in the "High Justice" article in JTAS #14. There's another one I liked but cannot put my finger on. It showed two antiquarians arguing in a library surrounded by papers and books. They're each wrapped in quilts and there's a stuffed "moose" head on the wall behind them.
Regards,
Bill
There was an illustrator for the old deadtree JTAS magazine named Barr whose work I always enjoyed.
His drawings were detailed, always humorous to some degree, and somehow bought across the feeling of action. It was if they were snapshots or stills from a video, a feeling I don't always get from an illustration even if it is of "action".
Quickly thumbing through a few issues, he has two illos in the "High Justice" article in JTAS #14. There's another one I liked but cannot put my finger on. It showed two antiquarians arguing in a library surrounded by papers and books. They're each wrapped in quilts and there's a stuffed "moose" head on the wall behind them.
Regards,
Bill
spinwardpirate
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Maybe it has something to do with exposure? I'm in the US, and while I'm familiar with McQuarrie, the other names don't ring a bell. Elson's works figured prominently in the old Terran Trade Authority books, and since so many of his paintings sparked my imagination, his was a name I latched on to.
Without going back and looking, anyone mention Wayne D. Barlowe? His Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials was another book that fired my imagination.
