Odds and Ends: July 2025

First things first: Check out this sick John Berkey illustration, an interior illustration in the Sept 1994 issue of Science Fiction Age. It's the perfect size for a phone lockscreen. Here's one more artwork that I just really loved and wanted to highlight: Michael Booth’s 1985 cover art for

More 'Epic' Sci-Fi

Okay, time to get back to the basics. This issue, I won't be trying to convince you to care about a corporate report or a bunch of grass-themed art. This is a sequel to a post from last year. The only theme connected the works of art below is how

The Argentina Sword-and-Sorcery Movie Poster Collection

In the late 70s, Arnold Schwarzenegger was looking to break into Hollywood, with the help of the handy bodybuilder-to-comic-adaptation pipeline established by Lou Ferrigno's Incredible Hulk show. At the same time, National Lampoon had successfully taken the French comic Métal hurlant to the US market as Heavy Metal magazine, revealing

Grass

"Touch grass." It's a now-classic internet insult for telling anyone who's getting too worked up online that they need to go outside. But is it also good advice for an era of science fiction art that focuses too much on sleek white iPhone-branded future cities and not enough on the

Red Cross Space Hospitals

In 2020, the video game Among Us got in trouble for accidentally violating the Geneva Conventions Act. On its med bay, the sci-fi game had displayed "the emblem of a red cross with vertical and horizontal arms of the same length on, and completely surrounded by a white ground," all

Doors

Doorways are a simple way to create a frame-within-a-frame in a photo or artwork. This can direct the eye of the viewer towards a subject, and it can create an emotional context – isolation, distance, a sense of being locked out. Filmmakers love this trick, with the final shot of John

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