Can you identify this 1950s era Sci Fi artist?
I once had a calendar with artwork taken from the covers of those old 1950s pulp Sci Fi magazines, such as Amazing Stories.
One picture I am especially interested in finding can be described as follows: an American astronaut is laying on a gondola in the canals of Mars, surrounded by beautiful human-looking Martian women feeding him grapes, while a Martian in his true monstrous form is secretly crawling up the side of the boat to stab him.
I thought the artist's name was Virgil Finlay. However, when I look at his artwork online, it is not the same style. The style I remember looked more like this: http://www.rainfall.com/posters/scifimag...
Please do not bother giving me answers such as, "check ebay". I have looked all over the internet. I must be misdirected in my searches.
2007-05-20 09:35:18 · 3 answers · asked by pachl@sbcglobal.net 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
Please..... if you answer this question, try to give me a website to investigate, something concrete. If you have a name, or a website, please list it.
Please look at those pulp sci fi covers. This is the general style of what I recall. I thought the guy's name was Virgil Finlay, but the style of his work I have seen doesn't seem to match.
http://www.rainfall.com/posters/scifimag/catalog1.htm
2007-05-20 09:50:38 · update #1
Let me clarify further. I am not talking about a novelist. I am talking about a famous Sci Fi artist who drew many of the covers on 1950s pulp magazine covers like Amazing Stories: those very colorful artworks showing spaceships, colonies on other planets, etc.
2007-05-20 10:11:16 · update #2
it looks like it could be the work of either george or jerome rozen...twin bothers from long island who were popular magazine cover illustrators back in those days....most notably on the 'the shadow' pulp mag in the 30s-50s...
EDIT:lookin' thru my various research books...it also could be reed crandall...but it is definitely not virgil finlay, frank frazetta, or al williamson...
2007-05-20 10:13:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably Ray Bradbury. He wrote the story about Martian people. The title is The Martian Chronicles.
2007-05-20 09:45:23 · answer #2 · answered by Michael 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That sounds like Escher's work
2007-05-20 09:43:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is it Frank R. Paul? Check this link out.
http://www.frankwu.com/paul1.html
Hope this is of some help.
2007-05-28 07:27:21 · answer #4 · answered by frankenhoohoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋