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Sakyō Komatsu sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/komats... was born on this day, so here's some of his covers (couldn't identify the artists, but the first and last might be Noriyoshi Ohrai):

The cover to Sakyō Komatsu's 短編集　東浩紀セレクション (a short story collection)

The cover to a manga edition of Sakyō Komatsu's 'Japan Sinks'

January 28, 2026 at 8:48 PM

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Kathleen Ann Goonan sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/goonan... and Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/siegel... died, whilst Carrie Vaughn sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/vaughn... was born on this day: related art (Artist: Charles Demorat, [uncredited], Russell Keaton & Stephen Johnson):

Interior magazine artwork for Kathleen Ann Goonan's 'The Bride of Elvis'

Cover for the comic 'Lion' (#4 May 1968), illustrating 'The Spider v the Sinister Seven', written by
Jerry Siegel. Artist uncredited, but Reg Bunn drew the strip inside.

An early (mid-1930s) Jerry Siegel attempt at a Superman newspaper strip (with Superman being a child from the future), which was rejected. The artist isn't Joe Shuster but Russell Keaton, who was working on the Buck Rogers newspaper strip at the time

Interior magazine artwork for Carrie Vaughn's 'A Hunter's Ode to His Bait'

January 28, 2026 at 4:23 PM

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William Butler Yeats sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/yeats_... died on this day, so here's the cover (by Althea Gyles I think) and some interior illustrations (by JB Yeats) for his 'The Secret Rose' (1897):

The cover for William Butler Yeats' 'The Secret Rose'

Interior artwork for William Butler Yeats' 'The Secret Rose' (apologies for the poor quality)

Interior artwork for William Butler Yeats' 'The Secret Rose'

January 28, 2026 at 2:43 PM

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Charles L Fontenay sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fonten... died Pelham Groom was born on this day, so here's some related artwork [1-3 Fontenay, 1957-1958; Groom, 1948] (Artist: Richard Kluga, [uncredited], Ed Emshwiller and Thornley)

Interior magazine artwork for 'Earth Transit' by Charles L Fontenay

Interior magazine artwork for 'Chip on the Shoulder' by Charles L Fontenay

Interior magazine artwork for 'Beauty Interrupted' by Charles L Fontenay

The cover to Pelham Groom's 'The Purple Twilight'

January 28, 2026 at 12:13 AM

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Artist and author Frank Miller sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/miller... was born and artist Rod Ruth sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ruth_rod died on this day, so here's some examples of their work (Artist: Frank Miller, Rafael Grampa, Rod Ruth and Rod Ruth):

Frank Miller's cover to his 'Ronin' book four

Cover to 'Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child', written by Frank Miller

Interior artwork by Rod Ruth to 'Baleful Beasts and Eerie Creatures' (edited by Andre Norton)

January 27, 2026 at 10:02 PM

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Lewis Carroll sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/carrol... was born on this day, so here's some Alice-related artwork (Artist: [couldn't identify], Hume Henderson, Hume Henderson and Gwynedd M Hudson.

Cover to Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' presumably from 1932 (as its the "centenary edition and Carroll was born in 1832); actually a reprint of a 1928 edition (see next two post) with a new cover.

Illustration to Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' from 1928.

Another illustration to Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' from the late 1920s.

Illustration to Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' from 1922.

January 27, 2026 at 8:44 PM

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KD Wentworth sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wentwo... was born and Henry Winterfeld sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/winter... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Broeck Steadman, Jon Foster, [couldn't identify] and William M. Hutchinson).

Magazine illustration to KD Wentworth's 'The Girl Who Loved Fire'

Magazine illustration to KD Wentworth's 'Shore leave'

Cover to Henry Winterfeld's 'Kommt ein Mädchen geflogen'

Cover to Henry Winterfeld's 'Castaways in Lilliput'

January 27, 2026 at 4:24 PM

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Arthur O Friel sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/friel_... and John Updike sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/updike... died, whilst Michaela Roessner sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/roessn... was born on this day: some related artwork (Artist: Jeff Jones, [couldn't identify], [couldn't identify] and Brad Holland):

Cover to 'The Pathless Trail' by Arthur O. Friel

Magazine illustrations to stories by Arthur O Friel

illustration for 'Mieze Corrects an Incomplete Representation of Reality' by Michaela Roessner

January 27, 2026 at 2:46 PM

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Some interior magazine artwork for AE van Vogt stories, 1949-1950 (Hannes Bok, [uncredited], Hubert Rogers and WE Terry):

Interior magazine artwork for 'The Earth Killers' by AE van Vogt

Interior magazine artwork for 'Rogue Ship' by AE van Vogt

Interior magazine artwork for 'The Wizard of Linn' by AE van Vogt

Interior magazine artwork for 'War of Nerves' by AE van Vogt

January 26, 2026 at 11:47 PM

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AE van Vogt sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/van_vo... died on this day, so here are some of his book and magazine covers (artist: Stanley Meltzoff, Ed Emshwiller, Lew Glansman and Frank Kelly Freas):

Cover to AE van Vogt's 'The World of Null-A' (1953)

Cover to AE van Vogt's 'The World of Null-A' (1964)

Cover to AE van Vogt's 'The Voyage of the Space Beagle'

Cover to Eerie #139 (1982), featuring AE van Vogt's 'The Voyage of the Space Beagle'

January 26, 2026 at 9:56 PM

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Philip José Farmer sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/farmer... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (artist: Walter Mac Mazzieri, Peter Goodfellow, [uncredited] and Jean-Michel Nicollet):

Cover to Philip José Farmer's 'I cancelli dell'universo'

Cover to Philip José Farmer's 'The Gates of Creation'

Cover to Philip José Farmer's 'The Gate of Time'

Cover to Philip José Farmer's 'Comme une bête'

January 26, 2026 at 8:35 PM

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The rest of this week's new SFE entries are: Japanese 2025 anime tv series 'Lazarus'; US animated tv series 'Starcom: The U.S. Space Force' (1987); US comic 'Zegra, Jungle Empress' (1948/1949); and the Polish online magazine 'Poltergeist':

Screenshot from US animated series 'Starcom: The U.S. Space Force'

January 26, 2026 at 7:49 PM

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This week's new SFE entries can be found here: sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php with Jake Arnott, Eric S Brown, Jason Cordova, Hank Davis, Eça de Queiróz and Gurnaik Johal; The 2016 film 'The Bad Batch' ... [tbc]

Cover to 'Tegra, Jungle Empress' #1 (shortly to become Zegra)

Page from 'Zegra, Jungle Empress' comic, the one-off 'Phara, Living Goddess' strip

January 26, 2026 at 7:37 PM

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MJ Engh sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/engh_m_j and Yoon Ha Lee sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lee_yo... were born on this day, so here are some of their book covers (Artist: Paul Lehr, Leslie Bowman, [couldn't identify] and Chris Moore):

Cover to MJ Engh's 'The House in the Snow'

Cover to the Japanese edition of Yoon Ha Lee's 'Ninefox Gambit'

Cover to Yoon Ha Lee's 'Raven Stratagem'

January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM

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Geoffrey Kerr sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kerr_g... and Frank Lauria sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lauria... were born, whilst Raymond Williams sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/willia... died on this day: some related book covers (Artist: 1&3 [couldn't identify], 2 Gene Szafran, 4 Ionicus):

Cover to 'Under the Influence' by Geoffrey Kerr

Cover to 'The Foundling' by Frank Lauria

Cover to 'The Fight for Manod' by Raymond Williams

January 26, 2026 at 2:48 PM

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Pauline Ashwell sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ashwel... - who early on in her career wrote as Paul Ash - was born on this day; so here's some interior magazine art (1958-1966) for her stories (Artist: Frank Kelly Freas, Frank Kelly Freas, John Schoenherr and John Schoenherr):

Interior magazine art for 'Unwillingly to School' by Pauline Ashwell

Interior magazine art for 'Big Sword' by Pauline Ashwell

Interior magazine art for 'The Lost Kafoozalum' by Pauline Ashwell

Interior magazine art for 'The Wings of a Bat' by Pauline Ashwell

January 25, 2026 at 11:47 PM

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Leiji Matsumoto sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/matsum... was born on this day, so here's some of his work:

Cover relating to Leiji Matsumoto's 'New Tale of the Bamboo Cutter' (I think)

Cover relating to Leiji Matsumoto's 'Ring of the Nibelungen'

Panel from Leiji Matsumoto's "Denko Ozma" (I think)

Poster or art book for Leiji Matsumoto's work

January 25, 2026 at 10:23 PM

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Ludwig Tügel sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tugel_... died and Peter Watts sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/watts_... was born on this day, so here's a Tügel cover and three French ones for Watts (Artist: [uncredited], Manchu, Dofresh and Manchu):

Cover to Peter Watts 'Au-delà du gouffre'

January 25, 2026 at 9:21 PM

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Manga creator Shōtarō Ishinomori sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ishino... was born on this day, so here's some related manga art:

Manga cover for Shōtarō Ishinomori's 'Inazuman'

Manga cover for Shōtarō Ishinomori's 'The Time is Vidro'. Not sure if the cover art is his, as it looks different to others (though of course he might just be varying his style); and that's his name on the cover (石森章太郎)

Manga interior art for Shōtarō Ishinomori's 'Cyborg 009'

Manga cover for Shōtarō Ishinomori's 'Cyborg 009'

January 25, 2026 at 4:25 PM

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Gerald Evans sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/evans_... died, whilst Stefan Themerson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/themer... and Virginia Woolf sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/woolf_... were born on this day (artists in Alt Text). 1 'La Salle' was an Evans alias; 4 from a graphic novel edition of Woolf's 'Orlando':

Cover to 'The Black Sphere' by Gerald Evans [as by Victor La Salle]. Artist: Norman Light

Cover to 'Professor Mmaa's Lecture' by Stefan Themerson (couldn't identify artist)

Cover to 'Special Branch' by Stefan Themerson. Cover by Joost Warte

From a graphic novel edition of Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando' by Susanne Kuhlendahl

January 25, 2026 at 3:11 PM

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Some interior magazine art for CL Moore's stories from 1933-1936 (Jayem Wilcox, HR Hammond, Jack Binder and Virgil Finlay). All from Weird Tales:

Interior magazine art for CL Moore's 'Shambleau'

Interior magazine art for CL Moore's 'The Black God's Kiss'

Interior magazine art for CL Moore's 'Jirel Meets Magic'

Interior magazine art for CL Moore's 'Lost Paradise'

January 25, 2026 at 12:11 AM

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Raymond F Jones sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jones_... died on this day, so here's some interior magazine art for his 1941-1947 stories (artist: Kolliker, [uncredited], Paul Orban and Edd Cartier):

interior magazine art for Raymond F Jones' 'Test of the Gods'

Interior magazine art for Raymond F Jones' 'The Seven Jewels of Chamar'

Interior magazine art for Raymond F Jones' 'Pete Can Fix It'

Interior magazine art for Raymond F Jones' 'The Model Shop'

January 24, 2026 at 11:37 PM

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CL Moore sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/moore_... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: 1 [couldn't identify], 2-3 Jean Claude Forest, 4 Rafael DeSoto). Note author typo on 1st. 2-3 from the Summer 1955 issue of the French 'V' magazine:

The cover to a UK edition of CL Moore's (here 'CE Moore') 'Shambleau'

Some illustrations to CL Moore's 'Shambleau', from the Summer 1955 issue of the French 'V' magazine

Moore illustrations to CL Moore's 'Shambleau', from the Summer 1955 issue of the French 'V' magazine

The cover to Argosy magazine, April 1943, illustrating 'Earth's Last Citadel' by CL Moore and Henry Kuttner

January 24, 2026 at 10:10 PM

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L Ron Hubbard sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hubbar... died on this day, so here's some related cover artwork (artist: Allison, William Benulis, Diane & Leo Dillon and Josh Kirby):