Another continuum of covers.
Above is a Zero-X-MEV-like super sleek craft sporting the cover of Galaxy Science Fiction from August 1966. Looks like a couple of Wookies at the wheel!
Mike Trim, he of Century 21 fame, gave us his own vision of sleekness eight years later in 1974 shown below. A much more industrial design, it reminds me of the realistic mechanics of artists like Foss.
It was my great pleasure to be able to buy a copy of this image personally from Mike at Fanderson's TV21 con way back in 2010.
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Addendum:
Here's a pic of slickness itself, the Zero-X MEV from TV21 January 2067
I wonder if the MEV's design ever changed?
second pic looks a bit like the Pyro/Kleeware/Tudor Rose X400.
ReplyDeleteSee what you mean Brian. Do you collect those venerable space toys?
DeleteI remember getting Science Fiction Monthly, the big british tabloid size mag, for a poster of Trims artwork.
ReplyDeleteDon't recall that mag Bill. I may have been abroad. When did it come out?
DeleteHmm... Woodsy... that Galaxy cover: do you know the author, maybe?
ReplyDeleteThe style is IMO very similar to the one of the illustrations of the first/only IGTB (InterGalactic Touring Band) album.
Do you know the band & album? A kind of "Spinal-Tap-for-real" one-shoot SF LP, but with BIG musicians (Meatloaf-sized big, i mean... ;-).
Here a link to a tribute site: http://www.kongaloid.org/igtb/igtb.html
Cheers
Ervino
The Galaxy cover was by the beautifully name Gray Morrow Ervino. I've not heard of the Intergalactic Touring band but now had a look at their albums. Fantastic covers. I see what you mean about the slick spacecraft similar to the Galaxy one. Really cool cover art. I shall have to have a listen to them too! Thanks for that!
DeleteYou must absolutely listen it. I admit that this album was a "fixed point" in my teens so I can by just slightly biased, but some tracks IMO are fantastic, expecially "Space Commando" and "Keeper Keep Us".
DeleteYou can easly enough find it on eBay at resonable prices, vinil or CD (the vinil version has a bigger - LP-sized, AAMOF - booklet, obviously...)
Unfortunately I never have been able to discover who is the illustrator of the booklet...
E.
Sounds fab Ervino. I shall definately be Intergalactic Trading by the end of the week! Looking at the Discogs vinyl site the artist was one Larry Ortiz. Sadly he appears to have died last year age 68 http://www.tillamookheadlightherald.com/obituaries/larry-peter-ortiz/article_e9481058-79cd-11e5-83ba-27fb6d85b77f.html
DeleteThans for the discovery and for the vinyl db site! :-)
ReplyDeleteAnother unfortunate premature passing :-(
R.I.P. for all the Space Voyages open-eyed dreams his illustrations gave me listenting to the IGTB music... ,-)
Who knows where the originals of his work are now: I didn't mind to have one in my collaction...
E.
Your'e welcome Ervino.
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