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Thursday, March 31, 2011
This is how The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction looked when it began in 1949 with the Bill Stone cover illustration and the evocative, flowing calligraphic logo by Mercury Publications' art director George Salter (1897-1967).
Co-editor Anthony Boucher (1911-1968) used as a pseudonym, H.H. Holmes, the name of a 19th-century serial killer. Oliver Onions (1873-1961) wrote the classic unforgettable psychological terror story, "The Beckoning Fair One", which can be read here.
Onions
Labels: boucher, fantasy, george salter, oliver onions
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Emsh #2: Bill Griffith and the Mekas Brothers in Outer Space
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Below is an excerpt from Adolfas Mekas' Hallelujah the Hills (1963), shown at the first New York Film Festival. The cinematography on Hallelujah the Hills was by Ed Emshwiller. During the time of the filming, Emshwiller painted this cover for the April 1963 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, illustrating a James White story, "Fast Trip," about a crew member who starves so another can remain strong enough to pilot the spacecraft. Anyone who knew Adolfas and Jonas Mekas back then instantly recognized them as the anguished astronauts. The painting played like an inside joke, since Adolfas always appeared quite healthy, while Jonas seemed somewhat undernourished.
Emshwiller's neighbor in Levittown was future Zippy cartoonist Bill Griffith. He painted the 13-year-old Griffith and his father into this issue of Original Science Fiction (September 1957).
For our previous post on Emshwiller, go here.
Below is an excerpt from Adolfas Mekas' Hallelujah the Hills (1963), shown at the first New York Film Festival. The cinematography on Hallelujah the Hills was by Ed Emshwiller. During the time of the filming, Emshwiller painted this cover for the April 1963 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, illustrating a James White story, "Fast Trip," about a crew member who starves so another can remain strong enough to pilot the spacecraft. Anyone who knew Adolfas and Jonas Mekas back then instantly recognized them as the anguished astronauts. The painting played like an inside joke, since Adolfas always appeared quite healthy, while Jonas seemed somewhat undernourished.
Emshwiller's neighbor in Levittown was future Zippy cartoonist Bill Griffith. He painted the 13-year-old Griffith and his father into this issue of Original Science Fiction (September 1957).
Labels: emshwiller, fantasy, griffith, hallelujah the hills, james white, mekas, science fiction, zippy
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