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Just to confirm that there will be no further SFE posts on X (they will continue at the other site).
A Merritt sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/me… was born on this day, so here's some magazine art for his stories (Artist: Frederic Small, Frank R Pail, Virgil Finlay and Virgil Finlay). 3rd for "Metal Monster":
The recently passed David Lynch sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ly… was born on this day, so here's some posters for his films:
Nancy Kress sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kr… was born on this day, so here are some of her book and magazine covers (artist: Stephan Martiniere, Donato Giancola, Tim White and Frederic Marvin). The 3rd is White's cover art for the UK edition of "An Alien Light":
This week's new SFE entries can be found here sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew…: Mariano Antolín Rato; the 1963 Polish film 'Wielka, większa i największa'; the 1959 Russian film 'Ya byl sputnikom solntsa'; the 2024 anime series 'Dandadan' and the 1953/54 US comic 'Ghostly Weird Stories':
Louis Charbonneau sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ch… and Robert Murray Graydon sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gr… were born on this day, so here are some of their covers (artist: Joseph Mugnaini, Karel Thole, [uncredited] and [[uncredited]):
Kij Johnson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jo… was born and Pierre-Alexis Ponson du Terrail sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/po… died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Victo Ngai, Ryohei Hase, [indecipherable signature at bottom of dress] and [a signature that looks like 'Arvo Gill'):
Editor and author Oscar J. Friend sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fr… died on this day, so here's some interior magazine art for his stories (Artist: Paul Orban, [uncredited], [uncredited] and Wilbur Thomas). "Jerome" and "Ford" were pseudonyms:
Edgar Allan Poe sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/po… was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (artist: [couldn't identify], Jean Hamman, Manoo Prieto[?] and Mario Labocetta) 2nd from 1925, 3rd 1953, 4th 1956:
Allen Steele sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/st… was born on this day, so here are some of his Asimov's cover appearances (Artist: Gary Freeman, Todd Lockwood, Ron Miller and Jeroen Advocaat):
S Henri Berthoud sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/be… was born o this day, so here are some of the illustrations to his "Le Féeries de la science" ["The Extravagances of Science"] from 1866, by Yan Dargent:
Edward Bulwer-Lytton sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ly… died on this day (18th), so here are some of his book covers (Artist: 3rd by 杉浦康平/鈴木一誌, 4th by RL; couldn't identify the others):
Artist Eddie Jones sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jo… was born on this day, so here's some of his book covers:
Artist Virgil Finlay sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fi… died on this day; apart from SF/Fantasy magazines he also worked for the American Weekly (from 1938): here's some examples of his work there (can't identify the stories, though the 4th looks like Cinderella ... save for the revolver):
Clare Winger Harris sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ha… was born this day, so here's some interior magazine art for her stories (1929-1930) and a 1947 book cover (Artist: [uncredited], HW Wesso, KAW and JM). 1 for 'The Diabolical Drug'; 2 'A Baby on Neptune' (written with Miles J Breuer):
Editor and author Jacques Sadoul sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sa… died on this day, so here are some covers to the anthology series he edited, "Univers" (Artist: Philippe Caza, Philippe Druillet, Moebius and Tibor Csernus):
Director, scriptwriter, producer and animator Genndy Tartakovsky sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ta… was born on this day (17th). As well as directing Hotel Transylvania, he created Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Primal and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal:
