Mobieus - Jodorowsky’s Dune (1)

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Top left: “Duke Leto Atreides”

Top right a “Sardaukar” - I still prefer this depiction

Bottom left “Feyd” - played by Sting in Lynch’s 84 Version

Bottom right “Kynes”

All concept Art from Mobieus for the aborted Alejandro Jodorowsky 1976 version of “Dune”. With Mobieus in charge of Costume Design and Storyboarding, Chris Foss taking care of Spaceship’s and Vehicles and H.R.Giger creating the evil Harkonnen Homeworld + a Pink Floyd soundtrack & starring Mick Jagger and Salvador Dali amongst others! it goes without saying this is definitely the greatest film never made. The project stalled when funds dried up and other assorted spanners randomly flew into the creative machine. Truly a project of immense scope and scale - alas never to be, at least not in this Universe!

Read all you need to know about the project, see all the art, interviews and more at this amazing site: http://www.duneinfo.com/ - Thanks Dan for the tip on that! The Mobieus feature is at http://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/moebius.asp

It’s also well worth having a read about Alejandro Jodorowsky himself at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky -

Also some more at:

Manny Z’s Cininite Blog: http://citinite.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/jean-moebius-giraud/

And the excellent io9.com http://io9.com/5088014/costume-designs-and-storyboards-from-the-dune-that-never-was

Vintage Scan #32: Mego Catalog

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If you were a boy growing up in the seventies, chances are you owned at least one Mego action figure. I don't think I even knew my Batman was made by Mego, but I sure do recognize the many action figures and sets pictured in this catalog. If you're interested in some serious childhood deja vu, I recommend you download this catalog: Mego World's Greatest Heroes 1972-1982. You're welcome!

What can I do today?

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What can I do today?
projects by Linda Nicol and David Clark (Design Group Ltd.)
illustrations by Brian Edwards
Rand McNally, 1973

I'll be back on Monday with a full week of posts. Until then, here's 'Over 100 projects for boys age 6-12'. Though I don't understand the gender-specific logic, I'll never turn down a vintage craft book, even if it is all full of little boy cooties! Ewwwwwwww.


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Ward Brackett: How Far is Far (in an Artist’s Evolution)?

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Two or three years after yesterday’s images from Reader’s Digest Condensed Books, here are a group of Brackett illustrations for the same publisher.



Brackett’s mid-’60s style is gorgeously sophisticated and sensitive in its observation and execution.



Some comments to yesterday’s post suggested a similarity to Austin Briggs‘ work and here it seems even more apparent, doesn’t it?





Some of what Brackett is doing at this point I would almost describe as being “exhilaratingly crude.” I look at the piece below and I’m reminded of the work of Chicago artist, Carl Kock



Was this development the further influence of Reuben Tam?

During that same mid-’60s period Brackett illustrated several children’s books in a style that reflects this same ’sophisticated crudeness’.

From 1964



From 1966







And from 1967



This sort of thing won’t appeal to everyone – but I think its noteworthy that Brackett was effectively using this experimental technique in work directed at both child and adult audiences.

Lest you think Brackett completed his career cutting and pasting construction paper, take a look at this book, published in 1974 by McGraw-Hill.



Here is the work of matured artist who, after years as a student…



… now feels confident in his ability to become a teacher.







Finally, perhaps my favourite of all the Ward Brackett art we’ve looked at this week, three pieces sent to me long ago by our own Charlie Allen. No date on these, but they must surely be from the ’60s or even the early ’70s.



When he sent these, Charlie, never one to waste words, enclosed a note that simply said, “Ward Brackett, one of my many favorite illustrators.”





I like that! Hope you’ve enjoyed this week’s look at the work of Ward Brackett…



… one of my many favourite illustrators, too!

* My Ward Brackett Flickr set.

* Ward Brackett’s obituary

* Many thanks to my pal Drazen Kozjan for sharing some of his scans today from “You Will Live Under the Sea”. You can find several more from the book at Drazen’s blog.

Retro Future: To The Stars! - Part 3

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'QUANTUM SHOT' #612 Link - by Avi Abrams We can not get enough of that stuff. The Future that never happened. The Past that kept dreaming and never woke up. Also read Part 2 and Part 1 We continue to update our extensive collection of the most inspiring and hard-to-find retro-futuristic images. As usual, we try to stay away from the well-known American pulp and book cover illustrations and instead focus on the artwork from some rather unlikely sources: Soviet and Eastern Bloc "popular tech & science" magazines, German, Italian, British fantastic illustrations and promotional literature - all from the Golden Age of Retro-Future (from 1930s to 1970s). Wait for images to load. We'll start with a line-up of neat planetary vehicles, envisioned for 'Project Sword' series. Here is a Moon Bus, powered entirely by crude oil: (images via) You have to appreciate the lines of the 'First Spaceship on Venus' (from the 1960 East Germany/Poland film): Curious how such a cool vintage-streamlined rocket might look on the launch pad? Check out these scenes from a Russian cult-favorite movie 'Nebo Zovyot', 1960 (remade by Roger Corman as 'Battle Beyond the Sun'): (images via) Life inside the space station (complete with a space kitten) from the Russian movie 'Road To The Stars', 1957 - (more screenshots and info here) (left: 'UFO' series; 'Land of the Giants' vehicle is on the right) (left: screenshot from 'Space 1999'; right: from 'Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun' - via) (scenes from the German TV series 'Orion Patrol' - via) (scenes from the Russian movie 'Planeta Bur: The Storm Planet' - see the whole movie here) (Russian magazine covers from the 1950s and 1960s) Great vintage designs from the cover of Hunt Collins' novel 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow' (Hunt collins is a pen name of Evan Hunter, better known as Ed McBain) - left image. A curious one-man space platform from the cover of 'Weird', Oct 1971 - on the right: German rare sci-fi editions yield a peek inside a space port, spaceship maintenance and repair: (images via) (intense planetary exploration scene from 'Operation Future' (ed. by Groff Conklin, 1961) cover - left. Right: 'The Space Frontiers', novel by Roger Lee Vernon) Construction of the space dome on Mars (from 'Dan Dare's Space Book', 1954) - below left. And pretty ugly space suits (1952 model) shown on the right: (images via) Floating in a pretty crowded space, 1950s style: (fragment of the cover of 'The War Against The Rull' by A. E. Van Vogt; image via) (images from the Vols Interplantaires, French space exploration futuristic edition) Perils of the Spaceways: (art by Alex Schomburg) (art by Ed Cartier, illustration to 'Tradition' by J. McIntosh, Other Worlds, April 1952) Vintage Japanese movies also depicted pretty intense space exploration: (images via) Outrageous water-to-air launch jet from Gerry Anderson's UFO series (see some similar real life designs on our page Flying Submarines) - (images via) Great minimalist art from the Russian vintage book 'The Flight To The Moon', 1954, showing the Moon Base: Here is another busy Russian Moon Base (from 1961) - (image via) Rare and gorgeous visions of space exploration from the Russian 1950 book 'The Rocket': (images via) Pretty detailed art by Jack Coggins from 'Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles and Space Ships' (1951) - (images via) Fragment of the Grosset & Dunlap 1950 "Book of Model Spaceships": there is something from the vintage Westerns in this scene - (image via) 'The Next 50 Years on the Moon' (by Erik Bergaust, 1974) states that sometime between 1980 and 1990 we will have a permanent Lunar colony: (German book covers in the 1960s-1970s) Of course, no retro-future space art collection will be complete without a mention of Frank R. Paul - the king of science fiction illustration during the Age of Wonder (1930s-1940s). Here is his 'City on Mars', 1940, and 'The Golden City on Titan', 1941: (images credit: Frank R. Paul) One more thing... do you suppose there is such a thing as a Retro Futurism Cute Overload? Well, the utterly adorable and infinitely cheesy picture below may just start the new category :) DON'T MISS PART ONE -> -- AND PART TWO -> CONTINUE TO OUR RETRO FUTURE COLLECTION! ->