So, here’s a question:
Say you’re a beautiful woman (I assume some of you reading this actually are women. Please believe me when I say that in my eyes all women are beautiful. If you’re a man reading this, then use your imagination) and you need to leave the relative safety of your spacecraft to go out into the vacuum of space or maybe planetside where there is a strong possibility that you will run into hostile aliens.
What do you wear?
It’s a tough one, I know.
Conventional wisdom would suggest that a self contained space suit with a substantial air supply and radiation shielding. That sounds reasonable, doesn’t it?
But not so fast. If we’re examining the history of science fiction illustration (which, at the moment, I am) then we have to think outside the box of conventional wisdom. Here we must enter the strange wisdom of the science fiction cover illustration.
So, what does the typical beautiful woman wear into space?
How about an evening gown?
That seemed to be a good idea to the woman depicted in a Norman Saunders’ painting for Marvel Science magazine in May 1951 in which two adequately suited spacemen appear to be manhandling a negligee-clad woman into a spaceship.
Now, according to something that we like to call science, the human body cannot survive unprotected in a vacuum. So the chances that the lovely lady in this painting is alive are slim to 0 to the power of 10 billion. She does, however, leave a beautiful corpse, which is surprising since her body has been exposed to hard vacuum.
You can read the rest of this article over at the AMAZING STORIES website!
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Just a quick painting. Corel Painter. About 3 hours.
Referenced from a photograph by Marcus Ranum.
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Here's a cover I did for Pulpwork Press.
Pulpwork Press has just released Joel Jenkins' book THE GANTLET BROTHERS GREATEST HITS. Not a sequel, per se, but featuring the same characters from his previous book THE NUCLEAR SUITCASE.
Who are the Gantlet Brothers? They are East German brothers who escaped from behind the Iron Curtain and have formed a heavy metal band. They also take on spy missions for the government on the side. Think a James Bond adventure but instead of the British Super Spy it stars Motorhead.
Here's what the book's back cover says:
From the broken and dusty terrain of Egypt's Qattara Depression to the grimy underbelly of New York City, erstwhile rock musicians and guns for hire, the Gantlet Brothers, use charm, blades, bullets, and fists to plow a path through amorous starlets with ill intentions, bounty hunters, a deranged serial killer and terrorists hell-bent on bringing down nuclear annihilation.
These are the Gantlet Brothers' greatest hits collected for the first time and including two never before published stories.
They're fun adventures and a great read. Go here and you can pick up a copy at 30% off the cover price.
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www.mdjacksonart.weebly.com
http://mdjackson.deviantart.com
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