Here's the last entry that failed to make it into my art book Worlds Beyond Time. I hoped to get four images in this spread, but I couldn't get in touch with Peter Goodfellow or Una Woodruff, and the cost for licensing John Berkey was a

I've found Jack Kirby's comic book adaptation of 2001: A Space Odyssey to be a fascinating oddity ever since I learned about it, so when I was putting together my art book proposal in 2019, it made the list. Most of Worlds Beyond Time focuses on

This art book section was cut from Worlds Beyond Time due to a lack of art permissions – Out of the four images that I had planned for my entry on sporting events of the future, I was only able to get the permissions to use one of them. I wanted

Here's another entry I cut from my art book, and the first one to be about an entire theme rather than a specific artist. Somewhat ironically, I opened this write-up by talking about how rare scenes set at night were, and that same rarity is why I wasn&

Placid, geologically imaginative record covers are what UK artist Roger Dean is best known for, particularly his work for the prog rock band Yes, who he has continually created posters, brochures, and stage installations for since late 1971. Dean’s art spans an impressive range of mediums and techniques, with

This installment wraps up the three international surrealist cover artists that I cut from my art collection's first chapter. *** David Pelham, art director at Penguin Books during the ‘70s, had a specific aesthetic: spare, stylized, surreal, centered on a single object, such as his iconic 1972 cover to

Wojtek Siudmak is second on my list of "surrealist cover artist I wanted to include a two-page spread in my book," after Henri Lievens. The Polish artist is alive and well today, but I couldn't get through to him while putting my book together. I reached

The time is upon us! My art book Worlds Beyond Time is officially released this week. In honor of its release and of the relaunch of this newsletter, I'm starting a new weekly series. And – because the Lord of the Rings was released on DVD during an impressionable