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The Lord of the Rings

Turns out the real war for Middle Earth was over a weird copyright issue

Adam Rowe

Oct 10, 2021 • 4 min read

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Marius van Boordt

Last August, someone reached out to me looking for information about a long-lost bedroom poster from their 1980s childhood in NSW, Australia. All they had to go on was one muddy picture of it: I didn't recognize it, and none of my guesses panned out – it reminded me

May 13, 2024 4 min read

Frankenstein art

Frankenstein's monster kickstarted the science fiction genre, so it's no wonder he's a presence in retro sci-fi art. And, thanks to 1930s-50s monster movies, he has a built-in visual archetype: Green skin, a head that's flat on top, and Boris Karloff'

May 6, 2024 4 min read

Terry Oakes, "Nocturne"

Welsh artist Terry Oakes is known for 1980s-era horror cover art, as well as a solid amount of science fiction and fantasy covers – I included two of his artworks in Worlds Beyond Time. He's still working today, and his agent Jane Frank just emailed out his most recent

Apr 30, 2024 6 min read

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