Philippe Curval sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/curval... died on this day; so here are the covers to some magazines/anthologies his work appeared in (Artist: 1-3 Jean-Claude Forest, 4 Dobrosav Bob Živković):

Artist Larry Elmore sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/elmore... was born on this day, so here are some of his covers from 1983-1986:

Gerald Breckenridge sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brecke... died and Kathleen Sky sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sky_ka... was born on this day, so here are some of their book covers (Artist: Mead Schaeffer, Mead Schaeffer, Bob Larkin and Don Maitz):

Interior artwork from Aboriginal Science Fiction, Summer 1992, for authors without a SFE entry: 1. Tony Russo, 2. Dean Whitlock, 3. Joseph Kosiewska, 4. Denise Lopes Heald (Artist: Charles Lang, Larry Blamire, Charles Lang and Peter Peebles):

Richard M Garvin sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/garvin... Witold Gombrowicz sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gombro... Laura Lam sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lam_la... were born, whilst Jules Lemaître sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lemait... died this day (Art: Mitchell Hooks, John Farman, Vera Drmanovski, Henry Morin)

Walter Emanuel sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/emanue... died, whilst Percy Bysshe Shelley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/shelle... and Tim Winton sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/winton... were born on this day, so here is some related artwork (Artist: 1 John Hassall, 2&3 Cecil Keeling, 4 [couldn't identify]):

Luigi Serafini sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/serafi... was born on this day; he's the creator of 'The Codex Seraphinianus', a "heavily illustrated pseudo-encyclopedia of an apparent Alternate World" that's written in an imaginary language. Here are some pages from it:

Tor Åge Bringsværd sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brings... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (3rd's artwork probably by Thore Hansen, but couldn't identify the other artists):

Clifford D Simak sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/simak_... was born on this day, so here are some covers for his 'Ring Around the Sun' (Artist: [uncredited], AA Likuchev, Johhny Bruck and Hodges):

This week's new SFE entries: sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php Nicholas Belardes, JE Bergfjord, Matt Dinniman, Gregory Greunke, Elly Griffiths, Seth Haddon, Veronica G Henry, Matthew Moore and Aleksander Sroczyński; US tv series Spider-Noir (2026) and US comic Adventures into Weird Worlds (1952-54):

Marc Laidlaw sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/laidla... was born on this day, so here’s interior magazine art for some of his stories 1978-1988 (Artist: Ernst Fuchs, Luděk Pešek, Joe Burleson and Armodio):

Robert Conquest sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/conque... died, whilst John DeChancie sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dechan... and Sven Christer Swahn sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/swahn_... were born on this day: here's some of their book covers (Artist: Paul Lehr, Jim Gurney, John Howe and [couldn’t identify]):

The SFE on Aldous Huxley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/huxley... and HG Wells sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wells_...

Adam Roberts@adamroberts.bsky.social · 3d ago

Wells, wells, wells: Brave New World, Crome Yellow and The Waste Land. profadamroberts.substack.com/p/on-brave-n...

The SFE on Hayao Miyazaki sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/miyaza...

Yining Karl Li@yiningkarlli.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another recent Animation Obsessive article that I really like: this one about Hayao Miyazaki's gorgeous image boards. Miyazaki's image boards aren't storyboards, but they're not fleshed out concept art either; they kind of sit somewhere in between. animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-image-...

Some illustrations from Century Magazine in the 1890s: 1&2 from “A Romance of the Faith” by Herbert D Ward (February 1894); 3&4 from "A Great Naturalist: Edward Drinker Cope" by Henry Fairfield Osborn (November 1897). Artist: 1&2 A Castaigne; 3&4 Charles R Knight.

Robert P Holdstock sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/holdst... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: [uncredited], Peter Goodfellow, Carl Lundgren and Hans Pieko):

William S Burroughs sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/burrou... died and Ken MacLeod sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/macleo... was born on this day, so here’s some related artwork (Artist: [couldn’t identify], Don Brautigan, [couldn’t identify] and Lee Gibbons):

Donald Barr sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/barr_d... Winston Brebner sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brebne... and Charles Einstein sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/einste... were born on this day, so here’s some cover art (Artist: Guy Fleming, Larry Kresek, Graham Oakley and [uncredited]):

S Makepeace Lott sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lott_s... was born and Owen Rutter sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rutter... died on this day, so here’s some related artwork (Artist: 1 "Kirby" [signed as such bottom left - so might be a Josh Kirby?], 2 Ron Jobson, 3&4 Mary Penrose-Thackwell):

Editor and author Raymond A Palmer sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/palmer... was born on this day, so here's some interior magazine artwork for stories he wrote pseudonymously 1943-1945 (Artist: AK Bilder, Virgil Finlay, Russell Milburn and Virgil Finlay):

Artist Edd Cartier sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cartie... was born on this day, so here's some of his magazine cover artwork from 1939/1940:

Herman Melville sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/melvil... and Russ Winterbotham sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/winter... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Erik Desmazières, Erik Desmazières, [uncredited] and Leo Morey):

Berta Hader sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hader_... Marc Stiegler sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/stiegl... and Alan G Yates sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/yates_... were born on this day (Artist: [Berta Hader also an illustrator, so possibly by her?], Wayne Barlowe, Maurice Bramley and [couldn't identify]):

Coulson Kernahan sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kernah... and Chantal Montellier sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/montel... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: 1&2 [couldn't identify], 3&4 Chantal Montellier):

It remains too hot to say anything clever about the publication of Ansible 469. news.ansible.uk/a469.html

Poul Anderson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/anders... died on this day, so here are some of the covers for his novel "Brain Wave" (Artist: Richard Powers, Busillet, Tim White and Paul Lehr):

Artist Junji Itō sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ito_ju... was born on this day, so here's some examples of his artwork. A couple are weird body horror, so I've labelled it "graphic media":

Clara de Chatelain sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/chatel... was born and Denis Diderot sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/didero... died on this day, so here's a couple of illustrations from the former's "Pussy's Road To Ruin" (1840) and the latter's "Les Bijoux Indiscrets" (1748/49) (couldn't identify artists):

Kim Newman sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/newman... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (2nd by Tom Mandrake, but couldn't identify other artists):

James Blish sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/blish_... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Chris Foss, Josh Kirby, Peter Elson and [uncredited]):