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Click for larger imageRyan Comments: Edgar’s year seven project.
Published 1966
(Average: 7.33 out of 10)
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Ryan Comments: Edgar’s year seven project.
Published 1966
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July 8th, 2019 at 12:13 pm
So many cover possibilities instead of this collage. At least the Italians rose to the occasion.
http://mporcius.blogspot.com/2015/07/west-of-sun-by-edgar-pangborn.html
July 8th, 2019 at 1:53 pm
A red-green planet would be a brown planet. At least that’s what my color theory teacher would have told me if I had shown up to class.
July 8th, 2019 at 2:29 pm
Four men and two women alone on an unknown world? Add Mrs Howell and you have the plot to Gilligan’s Island!
July 8th, 2019 at 3:06 pm
Let’s not be too hard on Herr von Zitzewitz. In 1968, using clipart involved actual clipping.
July 8th, 2019 at 4:08 pm
There will be …rocks! Fire! Sea anemones! Bows and arrows! Blue things! Orangutans with pointy sticks! Long runs on the beach! Are you not entertained??
@JuanPaul: maybe it’s got green seas and red land? Or vice versa?
@Bibliomancer: Mrs. Howell has no gender?
July 8th, 2019 at 4:17 pm
I kept clicking on the orangutan to see what kind of smut you were keeping from us.
July 8th, 2019 at 5:32 pm
Sayth the staff-waving individual on the right of the collage…
“Aren’t you forgetting something?”
…w …t …f …?
July 8th, 2019 at 7:09 pm
I remember collages like this on science textbooks of the late 1960s, only they made more sense.
July 8th, 2019 at 11:37 pm
“Ook? Ook. Euch.”
July 9th, 2019 at 1:03 am
The circle that looks like planet Mars at first glance turns out to be the side of a cold beer bottle. Perhaps that sheds some light on the artist’s creative process.
July 9th, 2019 at 1:31 am
Did anyone but the artist give a hoot?
This collage really makes no sense even by the SF standards of the day. What is all that stuff to the right of the damsel and above the disembodied arm?
@JuanPaul: look at the top of the collage. Hoot must have remembered that too.
@Tor: I think you’ve got it.
July 9th, 2019 at 3:52 am
Hmmmmm—book published 1966. The final edition of the New York Herald Tribune ? April 24, 1966. Looking at that insipid blurb, I figure the review must have taken down the paper. Serves them right.
July 9th, 2019 at 4:59 am
@GSSxN – Hoot thought this collage was nice. Sold it twice!
http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/2/2a/THNNLSFQSH1967.jpg
July 9th, 2019 at 5:46 am
@Francis Boyle: indeed, the artist might have spent whole _hours_ going through a heap of discarded magazine with his safety scissors and Elmer’s glue, risking paper cuts to find just the perfect pictures, or at least the pictures he was going to use.
@Tag Wizard: whatever Judith Merril paid for it, it was too much.
July 9th, 2019 at 5:06 pm
@Bruce
But those paper cuts can be. . . nasty.
July 9th, 2019 at 5:10 pm
This piece of art produced with pride by the Institute of Indolence.
July 16th, 2019 at 9:07 pm
@Ryan #16…haven’t seen the word “indolence” used in a long while…GSS!
November 27th, 2021 at 10:19 pm
Collage technique has produced great works of art…
… and in this case, great works of fart.