Graves Make Roses Bloom

Dammit, I just spent like 6-8 minutes to find out Vincey Masters wasn't real

Two shadowy dragons fly towards a big black cartoony castle against a blood red sky.

Mel Shaw art for 'The Black Cauldron'

Happy we have officially announced this thing I've been working on for ten freakin' years. Expect to hear more from me about it over the next little while. Meanwhile, here are details:

www.superherohype.com/comics/65227...

Art by John Blanche for Warhammer 40K

'80s Unicorns by Sue Dawe and Andy Mack Featuring the retro fantasy art of Sue Dawe and Andy Mack, with a cameo from Lisa Frank.

'80s Unicorns. Featuring the retro fantasy art of Sue Dawe and Andy Mack, with a cameo from Lisa Frank. Hosted by the ace @70sscifiart.bsky.social. 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/80s-unicorns/

Passing in the Night: A Queer Romance Fantasy Graphic Novel An urban fantasy queer romance comic about two star-crossed lovers: a medical resident, and a woman who turns into a flying lizard.

Art by Lane Lloyd! A digital version is just $15.

"Encounter at Sea" - four sailing ships are in a choppy ocean, and two are firing cannons at each other.

A ship with a ton of yellow sails on the ocean at dusk.

A line of hikers troops up a trippy jungle mountain side.

A man and a woman stand on the peak of a mountain, enjoying a late afternoon sun in front of a big waterfall.

More uncredited black light posters

YouTube video by RHINO David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose (Official Video) [HD]

Amazing with all that goes on in that video, it's still the memorable image:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=65o3...

Robert Tinney #1981 rb.gy/v3eaqo

Robert Tinney

Byte magazine cover featuring a desktop with a screen showing a green landscape, next to a window showing the real-life version, which is ugly, industrialized, and smoky.

The original Star Trek crew are at a holographic museum of "ancient technology," watching a guy scratch his head while reading a retro computer manual.

A painting, a window, and a desktop computer are all lined up to complete the same view, a scene of a blue mountain range.

A white-bearded Robert Tinney stands near an easel with a famous Tinney illustration of a smartwatch that runs on a micro-floppy disk.

RIP Robert Tinney (November 22, 1947 – February 1, 2026), the artist famous for his playful covers for Byte magazine, a hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-70s through the 90s. I'm honored to have included his work in my own art collection.

A robot and a human woman in a red dress embrace while kissing under a palm tree and three moons.

Two robots embrace and kiss while the sun sets behind them.

A robot hand holds up a rose.

An orange robot or cyborg is pressing a button on a giant computer wall, while turning to the reader and pointing at them with his other hand. He's saying "You turn me on!"

Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

This one's the sexy Valentine's Day special, all about robots in love. Examples here are by Philippe Caza, Thomas Warkentin, Josh Kirby, and Jack Kirby (no relation).

Just a reminder
that the Tom Waits song, "Underground"
is in the 2005 animated film, ROBOTS.

I love pecans. Do you buy them raw and roast them?

Mikhail Belomlinsky- Bard vs. Smaug (The Hobbit) 1976

Mikhail Belomlinsky- Bilbo in Smaug's lair (The Hobbit) 1976

Mikhail Belomlinsky- Bilbo vs. the spiders (The Hobbit) 1976

Mikhail Belomlinsky- Battle of the Five Armies (The Hobbit) 1976

A futuristic scene that includes two people in jumpsuits flying with jetpacks, a pedestrian walkway encased in a tube, lots of domes over buildings, a big boat in an ocean, airplanes and a flying saucer, and a huge bridge connecting the city to more domes in the distance.

Fred Freeman, ‘Life in 1999,’ 1966

This book. Get it.

Gorgo Loves You

Cool Spaceships Spaceships: The primary frontier. Across the '70s and '80s, complex and colorful spaceships were the first element that publishers everywhere thought to shoehorn onto any science fiction book cover. ...

This week's dispatch from @70sscifiart.bsky.social, "Cool Spaceships" is all killer no filler

From the Unquiet Things archives, A Vision Ecstatic: The Art of Noriyoshi Ohrai.
"It is said that moviegoers would comment that his illustrations of Godzilla looked even more powerful and violent than the real thing." unquietthings.com/a-vision-ecs...

Art by US artist Barclay Shaw (b. 1949)

Hirō Isono’s famous Mana Tree artwork for Secret of Mana (SNES) ❤️

The Hobbit - pioneering text adventure with sporadic gaudily-filled line drawings based on the novel but with considerably more sitting down and singing about gold, requiring grammatically precise commands to avert constant airborne threat of pale bulbous eyes.

timworthington.org/2026/02/03/l...

Absolutely. Iron Maiden’s take on Rime came out right around the time that I bought it