Retro Sci-Fi Art (has moved)

Image of the week: Ed Valigursky

Plus, skeleton eyes and cover assignments

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Adam Rowe
Feb 22, 2021
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Ed Valigursky’s biggest career years span 1951 to about 1965, although he kept active for a good while afterwards. He’s pretty solidly in the pre-70s sci-fi cover artist cohort, in other words, with a penchant for painting robots that would fit better on The Jetsons than on Blade Runner.

Which was blazing new ground in the early 50s: According to Vincen…

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