Book notes: 'HR Giger's Retrospective, 1964-1984' Part 1

Featuring "the suspenders craze" and a giant safety pin

Nothing like settling in for a long winter’s nap on Christmas Eve as I did this year, with the most festive art book around: An English translation of HR Giger’s Retrospective, 1964-1984, jammed full of all the sex and death imagery you’d expect from Giger.

Swiss painter Giger is another one of the sci-fi art greats, up there with Frazetta as a familar …