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Author Carlo Collodi sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/collod... and Artist Keith Parkinson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/parkin... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: 1&2 Beppe Porcheddu, 3&4 Keith Parkinson):

This week's new SFE entries here sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php - Alfonso Brescia; films Aquaman (2018, US); Ready Player One (2018, US); The War of the Robots (1978, Italy), A Wrinkle in Time (2018 US) and the anime E.Y.E.S. of Mars (1993, Japan); animated tv series the Lego Monkie Kid (2020-24).

Author Karin Boye sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/boye_k... and artist John Blanche sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/blanch... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: 1 [couldn't identify], 2 [couldn't identify], 3 John Blanche, 4 John Blanche):

Scott Russell Sanders sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sander... and David Walton sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/walton... were born on this day, so here are some of their book covers (Artist: Angus McKie, Ponder Goembel, [couldn't identify] and [couldn't identify]):

Lord Dunsany sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dunsan... died on this day (25th), so here are some of the illustrations from his "The Book of Wonder" (1915) by artist SH Sime:

Editor/author John Gregory Betancourt sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/betanc... and artist Fred Marcellino sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/marcel... were born on this day, so here are some of their book covers (Artist: Bob Eggleton, Romas Kukalis, Fred Marcellino and Fred Marcellino):

Paul d'Ivoi sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/divoi_... was born on this day, so here's some related book cover and interior art (Artist: 1 Lucien Métivet, 2-4 Louis Bombled):

Marko Kloos sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kloos_... and Anna Starobinets sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/starob... were born, whilst Martyn Skinner sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/skinne... died on this day, so here's some related cover art (Artist: 1 Marc Simonetti, 2&3 [couldn't identify], 4 Val Biro):

Karl Bruckner sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bruckn... died and Cecil Castellucci sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/castel... was born on this day, so here's some related cover art (Artist: [signature seems to say 'Laygan'], [couldn't identify], [might be 'Kano' and Becky Cloonan):

Otis Adelbert Kline sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kline_... died on this day: some illustrations to the 6-part serialisation of his "Buccaneers of Venus" in Weird Tales (November 1932-March 1933). Artist: J Allen St John. Unusually, the serial had 4 covers dedicated to it: here's 3 & an interior piece:

Artist Leo Morey sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/morey_... was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art (1934-1935):

Artist Al Feldstein sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/feldst... and author RM Meluch sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/meluch... were born on this day, so here are some of their covers (Artist: Al Feldstein, Al Feldstein, [uncredited] and [uncredited]):

Bob Kane sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kane_bob Sofia Samatar sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/samata... and Oliphant Smeaton sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/smeato... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Bob Kane/Lew Sayre Schwartz, Bob Kane/Lew Sayre Schwartz, Anouck Faure and Wal Paget):

John William Duffield sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/duffie... died, whilst Jane S Fancher sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fanche... and Nathalie Henneberg sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/henneb... were born on this day: some related artwork (Artist: Walter S Rogers, Walter S Rogers, John Howe and Don Maitz):

Artwork from the Polish magazine 'Fantastyka', from April and May 1984 (Artist: 1st might be Andrzej Sobczyk, 4th's signature looks something like 'M Strydecki; couldn't identify the others, though 3rd also has a signature):

Artist Allen Anderson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/anders... died on this day, so here are some examples of his cover art. I've posted his SF magazine covers a lot, so here are two of his comic covers and a couple from non-SF magazines (though with a suggestion of genre elements):

Artist Josh Kirby sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kirby_... died on this day, so here's some of his cover artwork from the period 1984-1987.

Nicholas Stuart Gray sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gray_n... was born and Hayden Howard sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/howard... died on this day: some related artwork (Artist: Charles W Stewart, Charles W Stewart, [couldn't identify] and [fragment of signature seems to suggest Frank Kelly Freas):

Naomi Alderman sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/alderm... and Restif de la Bretonne sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/restif... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: 1st Chris Bentham from Ronald Lampitt; couldn't identify the others):

Robert Barr sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/barr_r... died on this day (22nd), as well as being a writer he was co-founder and often editor of "The Idler": here are some of the magazine's illustrations by SH Sime from 1897, when Barr was the editor:

Artist Don Ivan Punchatz sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/puncha... died on this day, though best known for book covers, he also painted some album cover art, so here are some examples:

Tanaka Yoshiki sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tanaka... was born and Sheri S Tepper sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tepper... died on this day, so here are some of their covers (isfdb down, so couldn't identify the artists):

Suzy McKee Charnas sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/charna... Jim Lawrence sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lawren... and Doris Lessing sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lessin... were born on this day (Artist: HR Giger, [couldn't identify], [couldn't identify, though I think re-used art] and J Graham Kaye):

E Phillips Oppenheim sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/oppenh... was born and Charles B Stilson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/stilso... died on this day, so here are some of their covers (Artist: 1 Bip Pares, 2 George F Kelly, 3&4 [couldn't identify]): 1&2 from late 1930s; 3&4 from 1920s.

Edmond Hamilton sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hamilt... was born on this day, so here's interior magazine art for some of his 1934/1935 stories (Artist: HR Hammond, Wallace Saaty, Elliott Dold and Frank R Paul):

Ursula K Le Guin sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/le_gui... was born on this day, so here are some of her book covers (Artist: 1st presumably Bruce Pennington, could identify the others as still can't access isfdb - though 2nd has a signature [looks like 'Alex Eissa']):

Edogawa Ranpo sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/edogaw... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (couldn't identify the artists):

Artist Julie Bell sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bell_j... and Graham Dunstan Martin sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/martin... were born on this day: some related artwork (Artist: Julie Bell, Julie Bell, [couldn't identify] and Peter Gudynas):

Artist Bob Clothier sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/clothi... and author Ronald Delgado sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/delgad... were born, whilst author Janet Fox sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fox_ja... died on this day: some related artwork (Artist: 1.&2. Bob Clothier; 3. [couldn't identify] and 4. Joe Staton):

Further covers [see post of 16 days ago] - plus interior artwork - to 'Colecția Povestiri Stiințifico‑Fantastice' ('The Collection of Scientific-Fantastic Stories'), aka CPSF, a Romanian sf magazine published 1955-1974 (it's mentioned in the SFE Romania entry sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/romania ).

LP Davies sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/davies... was born, whilst Martin Greenberg [the one without the 'H'] sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/greenb... and Robert Thurston sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/thurst... died on this day. Some covers (Artist: [couldn't identify], Ric Binkley, Pagram and Frank Frazetta):

Taku Mayumura sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mayumu... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (couldn't identify the artists):

Robert R Chase sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/chase_... died and Paul Kingsnorth sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kingsn... was born on this day, so here are some of their book cover (Artist: Darrell K Sweet, David Mattingly, [couldn't identify] and [couldn't identify]):

Carole Nelson Douglas sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dougla... died, whilst Emma Tennant sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tennan... and Thomas Wylde sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wylde_... were born on this day; some artwork (Artist: 1&2 [can't get access to isfdb at present], 3 Wayne Douglas Barlowe, 4 AC Farley):

Harl Vincent sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/vincen... was born on this day, so here's some interior magazine art for his stories 1932-1934 (Artist: 1,2,4: Leo Morey, 3 [uncredited]):

L E Modesitt sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/modesi... and Philip Pullman sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pullma... were born on this day, so here are some of their book covers (Artist: Alan M. Clark, Donato Giancola, Eric Rohmann and [couldn't identify]):

The new SFE entries sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php Millie Abecassis, Kristen Alvanson, Meg Charlton, Ben Eastham, James Islington, Valeria Luiselli, Garth Nix; films Battle of the Stars (1978, Italy); Life (2017, US); animated series Hot Wheels Let's Race (2024-26, tv, US); Mars (1994, OVA, Japan)

Jonathan Swift sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/swift_... died on this day, so here's five illustrations to "Gulliver" from a 1913 edition (Artist: Louis Rhead):

Herbert D Kastle sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kastle... died and John Gabriel Rowe sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rowe_j... was born on this day: some related artwork (Artist: Frank Frazetta, Ed Emshwiller, [couldn't identify] and what seems to be"SIEB"?):

Artist Tony Roberts sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/robert... was born on this day, so here are some examples of his cover art from 1979-1980:

Charles Stross sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/stross... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Lee Gibbons, [couldn't identify], SMS and Manchu):

Edmond Haraucourt sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/harauc... was born and Jill Paton Walsh sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/paton_... died on this day: some related artwork (Artist: 1&2 Leon Rudnicki, 3&4 Lloyd Bloom). The Haraucourt book compiles some of his fantasy-related poems:

Thomas Alva Edison sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/edison... died on this day: illustrations to his collaboration with George Parsons Lathrop "In the Deep of Time" in the English Illustrated Magazine (March 1897) [artist: Hardy], previously in The Morning Times 1896/97. See 3rd image for story background:

AM Low sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/low_a_m and Bruce McAllister sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mcalli... were born on this day, so here's some interior magazine art for their stories (Artist: 1&2 [uncredited], 3 Greg Spalenka, 4 HR Giger):

Mark Gatiss sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gatiss... and Patrick Ness sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ness_p... were born, whilst Julian May sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/may_ju... died on this day, so some related artwork (Artist: Paul Campbell, Jim Kay, Paul Orban and [couldn't decipher signature bottom right]):

Alan Garner sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/garner... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: George Adamson, Charles Keeping, David Schleinkofer and Jeff Jones):

Jane Barlow sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/barlow... was born on this day: here are some of the illustrations to her 1894 poem "The End of Elfintown", by Laurence Housman.

Matthew De Abaitua sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/de_aba... and Jerry Siegel sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/siegel... were born and Kurd Laßwitz sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lasswi... died on this day, (Artist: Raid71, Joe Shuster, Joe Shuster & [couldn't identify]). Siegel & Shuster the creators of Superman: