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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm trying something new with my next art newsletter: Gifs. Here's one based on a 1973 Mike Hinge illustration. Sign up now and you'll get this one in your inbox Monday! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io#/portal/signup

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Remembering my best interaction on Twitter

A 2023 Twitter post from me of a 1970 Moebius illustration of an ornate alien castle, with two figures peering out of a window made out of a sideways glass dome. Someone quoted it to say "7 yr old me at a mcdonalds," and got 38K retweets.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

George Wilson

A big green furry sea monster with tentacles and one orange eye tears a ship out of the sea, tossing seamen overboard.

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Isaac's Haunted Beard @isaacshauntedbeard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I just revisited RANGO. Been awhile. Love it. A lost chameleon reinvents himself as a tough drifter, who ends up becoming the new sheriff of the town of Dirt. It's funny & clever. Nice animation. Filled with references to many films. Feels like its more for adults. Directed by Gore Verbinski.

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Sanshin Soba- Yo Ki @sanshinsoba.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I've been pretty useless for a week due to health things. But it hasn't stopped me from my favorite things. Which means your zines go out in the mail this week, if you're a You Rang member, you also will have mail! By the end of next week, there will be goodies! ko-fi.com/kifoxwrites

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Uncredited cover art for "After the Rain," by John Bowen, 1965

The Statue of Liberty is submerged in sea water up to her nose, under a stormy sky.

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Jay Lender @jaylender.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Images you can hear.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A classic 1973 Bruce Pennington cover to ‘Children of Tomorrow,’ by A. E. van Vogt.

A large, metal flying saucer hovers in a cloudy sky over a field of dry grass, while a boy and a girl run down a hill towards it.

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Jay Lender @jaylender.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

When I was working background design for Hey Arnold I made this handy guide to standardize the front door to the Sunset Arms… but once those off-model drawings are in the wild they breed like roaches. (Enjoy Craig's hilarious, tolerant note.)

A clean ground-level drawing of Arnold's stoop with notes describing exact features:

THE PORTHOLE
•hangs just below molding
•approx 1/2 height of other 1st floor windows

Loo! There are exactly 5 STEPS

Rounded sills are GOOD on Arnold's house!

THE CROWN MOLDING
This is made of rounded shapes!
Interior lines are only to suggest dimension. They DO NOT DEFINE FLAT PLANES!

THE FRONT DOOR
•six planks
•don't make window too complicated

(a post-it note from Craig Bartlett)
Jay-
Thanks for the extremely detailed front-door manifesto. Now how about a whole house? C.B.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Tim Kirk’s 1978 cover to "Heroes and Horrors," by Fritz Leiber

A guy in a cloak with a dagger and sword fights two big green fish-people as the ship room they're in fills with sea water.

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Jay Lender @jaylender.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In my day evil ice cream men were made by hand… #fuckAI

Two storyboard panels from Hey Arnold:

The Jolly-Olly Man leers down at us:
"Life ain't always fair, now is it?"

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Jason R. Wells, Esq. @jrwells82.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My co-worker having a little fun with one of her current displays

A pillar display with a sign that reads "WHAT WOULD #JIMOTHY READ?"

Book titles are:

Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door by Thor Hanson

How to attract wildlife to your garden by Dan Rouse

Pumpkin: the raccoon that thought she was a dog by Laura Young

The law of the garbage truck by David J. Pollay

The comfort of crows: a backyard year by Margaret Renkl

Wild souls: freedom and flourishing in the non-human world by Emma Marris

Wild Lives: leaving conservationists on the animals and planet that they love by Lori Robinson

15 minute Pilates by Alycea Ungaro

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Jay Lender @jaylender.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

True of all media. People respond to personal passion. Nothing else is worth responding to.

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 22/07/2026

New death-drop just dropped

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Robert McCall

A futuristic lunar colony has various habitats, a big central hub, rovers, and tiny astronauts walking around.

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deidungeon.bsky.social @deidungeon.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Here's some great art from the cover of B1 In Search of the Unknown. Art by Dave Trampier. #ttrpg #dnd

An adventuring party explores a cavern filled with mushrooms.

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Jay Lender @jaylender.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sell your book in five words: "Radical feminist pilot fights Nazis."

The cover to Duster. A woman in a flight jacket and jodhpurs holds a machine gun, while a sheriff stands behind with his pistol... they loom over a small town in Texas… in the background, a Nazi bomber silhouetted in front of a swastika is heading downward…

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Angus McKie

Several spaceships have crashed under a red sky. A face with a gas mask and space helmet is on the lower right-hand side, and another figure lies on the ground.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Chris Moore’s 1991 cover illustration for Stephen Baxter’s "Raft"

A sci-fi city on a floating rock hovers over a planet's cloud cover and under a giant blood-red celestial body.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 04/07/2026

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Angus McBride

Three creepy, angry dragons are posed sort of like vultures.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Jeffrey Catherine Jones, “Pellucidar,” 1990s

A warrior with long black hair obscuring their face and form squats near a brontosaurus in a muted, rocky setting.

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

David Mann, 1978

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Ed Lindlof's 1985 cover art for Neil Postman’s "Amusing Ourselves to Death"

A nuclear family with their heads all surreally missing sit on a couch in front of a TV set.

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Graves Make Roses Bloom @gregrozeboom.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If you're a Miyazaki fan, and haven't yet seen Future Boy Conan, I highly recommend that you seek it out. Imagine a 13 hour Jonny Quest story arc over 26 episodes. You'll see the seeds of Nausicaa, Castle in the Sky, and all the creativity, beauty and heart that you'd expect.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Helmut Wenske cover art to the German edition of "The Second Invasion Of Mars," by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. This one was an alt text workout

A very surreal scene that features a green wizard whose cloak is cracking into pieces, an orange plain with half an alarm clock on it, and a green sea being parted with a weird tesseract-like shape hovering near it. Two nude guys are wading in the ocean while wearing VR-looking headgear that's tethered to a building visible within a doorway being held by a giant blue arm that is emerging from the horizon. Underneath all this is some warped metal and a few merged human faces.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Angus McKie

A blue spaceship flies over the surface of the massive orange futuristic city of Trantor.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

John Berkey cover art

Several white spaceships with US flags on them fire lasers on a white domed space station on a blue planet. Cover to "Power" by Laurence M Janifer.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Check out my interview with @andrewliptak.com at Transfer Orbit about my upcoming art book! www.andrewliptak.com/adam-rowe-sc...

Rick Guidice's 1970s NASA cutaway concept of a Toroidal Colony interior in space.

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard's "The Bridge of Infinities," an 1800s black and white illustration of a row of a planets with a bridge built over them. Saturn's ring has turned into a balcony with people on it.

Three sci-fi magazine covers: Dan Adkins' October 1966 cover to If magazine featuring a guy shooting a gun, Frank R Paul's Sep 1927 Amazing Stories cover featuring a big venus flytrap eating a guy, and Wally Wood's April 1959 cover to Galaxy magazine featuring a group of aliens and robots playing poker.

Your first book was Worlds Beyond Time: what will this new book do that you couldn't do with that one?
There’s a great Leo Steinberg quote: “All art is infested by other art.” My first book took a really close look at one slice of science fiction illustration (mostly book covers, mostly 1960s-’80s), so this new one is pulling back to look at the web of influences that went into that era and emerged from it.
I’m covering such a broad area that it’s going to be impossible to include everything, so I’m approaching it more like an art smorgasbord that jumps around between centuries and mediums.

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Jay Lender @jaylender.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My design for Pigeon Man's roof was *heavily* influenced by Simon Rodia's Watts Towers.

Blue pencil of a city downshot focusing on a decrepit rooftop covered with metal mesh quonsets and cones... Pigeon Man's rooftop lair.

The gorgeous metal, tile, concrete and found-object sculpture that is Watts Towers by Simon Rodia.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Some professional news!

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Richard Powers' back cover to a 1980 edition of Robert Heinlein's 'The Number of the Beast'

A flying blobby creature with wings shoots a yellow blast of light, hitting a human at the top of a mountain.

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Graves Make Roses Bloom @gregrozeboom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

@jaylender.bsky.social Did you post this production shot from The Gate? I couldn't find the thread where we were talking about it:

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Jay Lender @jaylender.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Hey, everybody, BOOK A FLIGHT TO MONTREAL this weekend so you can buy a million copies of the Michaud Brothers' HOME graphic novels... and also this print that will make sense later on!

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 06/05/2026