m. c. de marco

Thought I’d do a another quick Omni Magazine Post as quite a few visitors have been searching for it… This is the cover of the July 1981 edition of the classic SF magazine and is taken from a 25 piece set over on Eric Carl’s Flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_carl/sets/72157616740741408/. Some superb examples old-school SF slanted Photomontage/Illustration/Design, some [...]

Scans taken “The Colonial Marines Technical Manual” written and illustrated by Lee Brimmicombe-Wood and published by Boxtree in 1995… I’ll have to admit this rare book is one of my prize possessions! “The Colonial Marines Technical Manual” if you hadn’t of guessed is basically an analytical expansion on all the military hardware envisaged and designed [...]

A recent flyer from Matt Pattison More of Matt’s SF Design/Illustration here:http://www.culprittech.blogspot.com/

A selection of Illustrations from Norwegian Comics Artist and Illustrator Thore Hansen. These Illustrations date from the 70’s and were produced for a Norwegian SF magazine, great colours! Images sourced from a larger collection of Thore’s work; again these are via Flickr User gojira2012 who’s amassed a superb collection of Sci-Fi illustration / objet d’arte, [...]

Book Cover Art from David Schleinkofer for an unknown Sci-Fi Book cover (he can’t remember the title!). Image taken from Davids Flickr account wheres he collected together a large selection of his past work - Including some very recognisable work (Transformers/Sim City) http://www.flickr.com/photos/38157193@N05/

As spotted via FFFFound.com these excellent doctored Photo Illustrations from Designer/Illustrator Eric Zelinski aka OBNX MUTE. Original source material for these pictures I believe comes from NASA / NARA - a really classy demonstration of what’s achievable with the right found imagery. These images are sourced via from the Flickr set “SPACE & MSCED” see [...]

A second sample from American artist John Berkey (1932-2008). If this images reminds of Starwars - well that’s probably because Berkey was commissioned by Lucas to work on early material for the original trilogy…. A little more on John Berkey here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berkey and further galleries of his work here: http://www.net-cafe.hu/fantasy.php?ct=161 Also an excellent gallery of John’s [...]

A David Pelham Penguin cover for a 1976 edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s Novel “Cat’s Cradle” Scan via Flickr User: Michael Bojkowski he’s also got a little selection of Illustrated Paperback cover’s here http://www.flickr.com/photos/mooski/sets/72157594314437849/ Also of note: check this excellent compendium of Penguin SF Book covers: http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/ Many thanks to Thistle for that link! Cat’s Cradle by [...]

A rare glimpse of some of James Cameron’s original concept artwork for his 1986 masterpiece “Aliens”. This topographical painting his re-imagining of the films nightmare planet, the inhospitable, unearthly bleakness that is LV-426 Acheron, a dimly lit world ravaged by screaming wind and lashed with perpetual storms….. not unlike a few places in the UK [...]

The Werewolf mythology depicted here in three Old World Etching/Woodcuts. These scans are taken from a lengthy essay featured in Man Myth and Magic Issue #107 ( from around 1971?). Article synopsis: “Stories of men having the power to change themselves into ravening beasts have gained currency in almost every part of the world; a universality which suggests [...]

  A Norwegian SF Book dating from 1969 Cover Art: Peter Haars Scan courtesy of Flickr User gojira2012 - check his Photostream for many more vintage Sci-Fi goodies with a Scandanavian slant - some superb stuff…. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gojira2012/

Cover Art for a later edition of Alfred Bester’s Classic Sci-Fi Novel “Tiger! Tiger!” originally published in 1956.  Artist is Adrian Chesterman - http://www.chestermanart.com/ Scan via Flickr User Seriykotik1970 originally spotted via the SciFi Books Pool, a great source of inspiration I’ve featured from many times http://www.flickr.com/groups/22742217@N00/pool/

A classic striking Poster dating from 1964 by Polish Graphic Designer and Cartoonist Jan Lenica (1928 -2001). Some more  of Jan’s Posters here: http://www.poster.com.pl/lenica.htm A little more on his career here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Lenica and part of his stop motion animated 1987 film: Ubu et la grande Gidouille http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQSqtj1NUjk must be a VHS rip, so not great but [...]

Here’s something I spotted on FFFFound a while back and bookmarked, super freaky techno spirtualism! courtesy of Brasilian Illustrator / Artist Bruno 9li (AKA Bruno Novelli) - this character an off-the-wall, underwater mix of Afrika Bambaataa Planet Rock, Shiva and erm Tron!  Not just a great style, but also a great demonstration of how  even [...]

‘Outer Space’ an early sample of the art of Peter Max a German born American Artist made famous during the 60’s for his Iconic ‘Cosmic Art’ Poster’s, the most famous of these being his technicolor ‘Love’ print,  see that here. More on Peter and his Illustrious, high-flying career at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Max Scan taken from the 1975 [...]

I’ve been running a little bit low on original Blog resource material until yesterday when a trip to my local antiques centre yielded a selection of this obscure magazine publication ‘Man Myth & Magic’ with it’s tagline’s: ‘An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural’ & ‘The most Unusual Magazine ever Published’ Man Myth & Magic was a [...]

Another post featuring a sample of art from the amazing Bob Pepper this piece used as the cover for an edition of the 1977 Jody Scott novel “Passing for Human”. Scan via vintage sci-fi goldmine Ski-ffy.blogspot.com see more of Bob Pepper’s Cover Artwork here: http://ski-ffy.blogspot.com/search/label/Bob%20Pepper – For a further collection of Bob Pepper’s cover’s check this Flickr Set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21631299@N07/sets/72157603661657927/

Two magazine covers dating from the 70’s - these alien worlds were painted by Kazuaki Saito for the long running Japanese publication “SF Magazine”. Art taken from a larger post over at pinktentacle.com Thanks to draw at drawingsilence.com for putting me on to these…