Magazine Cover Artwork

[J-WO]

One imagines 'Space Wars' wasn't around long before 'Star Wars' somehow.

 

[Starbeast]

One imagines 'Space Wars' wasn't around long before 'Star Wars' somehow.

True, STAR WARS made a huge impact on alot of people, and companies at the time could sell anything easy if a movie did well, George Lucas was indeed a ground-breaker and trend-setter. And yes, I would have bought this magazine too had I seen it in a store.

 

[Roy1]

I can alter images size on my computer but, when I post them here, they appear as thumbnails and you have to click on them to see the real size.

It was good to meet a bunch of you at Alt Fiction yesterday. I hope you all enjoyed the day. I thought it was good.

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[Starbeast]

I can alter images size on my computer but, when I post them here, they appear as thumbnails and you have to click on them to see the real size.

Roy1, all I do is copy the image code and the picture is whatever size it was put in as. Unlike the other large photos, this magazine cover is the size I found it.

 

[J-WO]

Now there's something you don't see on SF covers--built models. They reached a very realistic height in the eighties, but then CGI came along, of course.

If a mag like Asimov's or, indeed, Interzone had a crack at it nowadays, I think it would make for a daringly different image. It would have to be done well, naturally. Not a ship or cityscape made of coke bottles and old mobile phones!

ROY - Good to meet you again, too. I'm greatly enjoying the IZs I bought.

 

[Roy1]

Yes good to meet you J-Wo and it was a good con. Glad you are enjoying the results.

I'm not sure if illustrators have the time to build real models these days but they would have to get more than 1 TTA cover out of them to make it worthwhile if they were pro's. That said I thing Black Static 3's cover was a real model and you are right it does 'make for a daringly different image'.

Can't make it 'real size'.
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[J-WO]

Nice. Now that's what I'm talking about!

 

[Roy1]

Here's part 4 of Interzone's Warwick Fraser-Coombe's 'Playground' cover poster built up from Interzone 2010's 6 cover images.
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[J-WO]

More wreckage and rusty machine guns! Brilliant!

 

[Roy1]

Ben Baldwin's cover art for Black Static 18.
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[Starbeast]

 

[Starbeast]

 

[J-WO]

Hmm... Von Daniken meets the village people.

 

[Roy1]

An early look at the 5th panel of Warwick Fraser-Coombe's 'Playground' cover poster size image to be assembled from the 6 cover images of Interzone in 2010.
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[J-WO]

That one's the best, yet! Really iconic. Can't wait to see the finished article, though I've no idea where you guys are going to put the Mag's title. Will there be a break from tradition, putting at the bottom of the cover?

 

[murrayvincent]

Im from the middle of England. So my archetypes are probably more elfin and dwarves etc. than have naked females with concocted sci fi costumes etc. The image is worn out now,as contemporary publishing doesnt know where to go next.Having said that a lot of fantasy art feeds off so called reality so its all fairly confusing for illustrators who use current trends in photography and tv to draw from.imagination is bogged down with tried and tested ways of producing images in paint etc. Safe ground .I must admit book art ,covers etc do rely on this format. Maybe art directors are bogged down with it. Im working on a painting that is influenced by this trend but only because Ive not produced a painting in this genre. It hasnt got a female in it though. Its dragons and castles.

 

[Roy1]

Here is your answer J Wo

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[J-WO]

Aha! The old head-before-the-title trick! Never fails!

 

[Roy1]

Black Static is a bimonthly horror fiction magazine published by TTA Press.
Issue 19's cover is shown here. The main art on the cover is by Ben Baldwin, from his illustration for Simon Clark's 'They Will Not Rest'. The Stephen Jones painting is by Les Edwards.

Black Static is one of the few UK venues where new horror fiction artists get a fair hearing, a chance of publication based on merit and international and influential viewers. It carries both fiction and non fiction such as related movie reviews, book reviews, interviews and columns by the likes of Stephen Volk, Christopher Fowler and Peter Tennant.

You can obtain free podcasts of stories from its pages on this site and via iTunes,
There are E reader editions on the Fictionwise website for those with the requisite devices. There is no DRM problem with TTA Press E Books.
The print edition is best obtained by subscribing, £21 for 6 issues in the UK, but copies can be ordered from newsagents or bookshops and some do stock new issues as they are published.

PS Contact me to advertise within its pages.
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[Roy1]

Here is the last of this year's Interzone covers and the last piece of Warwick Fraser-Coombe's jigsaw. So was J-WO correct?

More details of the issue here.
The whole poster is available from Warwick if you want to display it on your wall.
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