Image of the week: Ed Valigursky

Plus, skeleton eyes and cover assignments

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…