Daily Book Graphics #314 / SF:4

©1974 / Illustration: Paul Lehr

Daily Book Graphics #91

OK, so for the first time in the course of this project I have missed a day. This post is back dated so it all flows together. In the future when I travel (I'm still in NYC), I'll have to remember to make better notes to prepare for the posts, I forgot to write down the illustration credits for the above images. They are from the Alien World: A Complete Illustrated Guide published in 1980. I posted illustrations from another book in the series in DBG #13, that one was a bit ridiculous, but this one goes to whole other level. The weirdest thing is the crossover between futuristic sci-fi imagery and Conan the Barbarian style fantasy characters. 

Daily Book Graphics #13 / Space Craft

These illustrations come from the Terran Trade Authority Handbook: Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD by Stewart Crowley (©1978). I first found this book at some kind of flea market in England in 1982 (I was 9 years old so I can't entirely remember the circumstances). That copy may still be somewhere in my parents house, but I found it again at a garage sale in Buffalo a couple of years ago. As a kid I found the book fascinating and kind of creepy. It's presented as a guide to the spacecraft of the 21st century and details the way they were used in the "Proximian War." It's all pretty silly, but some of the illustrations are amazing, and do succeed in creating an alien atmosphere. The book is illustrated by several different people, the best among them being Angus McKie. The Terran Trade Authority Handbook that addresses alien life forms (which I will get to later in the year), is more ridiculous than this book by several orders of magnitude.

Illustrator: Colin Hay

Illustrator: Angus McKie

Illustrator: Angus McKie

Illustrator: Angus McKie