Gallery Comments by Stephen Cassinelli

Very nice illo from a golden era of sci fi!  The ship design is like a airliner and rocket in one in a race to escape this meteor strike. Joe has the skills!

Great fantastical imagination.  A sci-fi space and underwater pin up with lots of background storytelling.  So early that you can't tell it's Mooney by the art style yet.  That plastic embossed label was a 70's thing and it's surprising that it hasn't fallen off yet. 

Very nice illustration to inform us of how the regular folk would dress and behave in their time period.  It would be nice to make a print of this just to recreate their long lost pamphlet style of cartoon storytelling.

This could be a prelim for Bard III which i just posted in my gallery recently. Take a look.  At first I thought this prelim  only shows a man "vanquishing" sea monsters. But to the left, at waist level to the man it looks like the helmet the lady warrior wears. She may be either crouching down or pinned against the side of the boat by the monsters. In any case this is a very nice piece! I love preliminaries as they document the miriad of ideas the artist was playing with. If I see anymore possibilities for what this is a prelim of I'll add those as comments as well.

Fun tribute!  I like he's carrying the briefcase.  Maybe he's now a lawyer who can sell his licensing rights to Dark Horse and Titan away from Marvel.

Great pick up! This piece is called Angry Rain II. It was used on a T-Shirt also. I use to have this piece in my collection. 

WOW - I have to admit that I'd never seen this O'Barr piece before, it's amazing. He channels a little Bowie influence here with Jonny Zero and his depth of color is almost mesmerizing. Thank you for sharing something I'd never seen before!

Very nice illo from a golden era of sci fi!  The ship design is like a airliner and rocket in one in a race to escape this meteor strike. Joe has the skills!

For once, the robot is the least cold hearted in the picture.

He was great SciFi illustrator.  This is a great painting and may very well have been a retort to a-hole comments like this:

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction found Valigursky's work to be "perfectly suited for the space operas and futuristic melodramas [of Ace Books]" and praised his depictions of robots and "his characteristic needle-nosed spaceships", but faulted those of his images that "focus on human figures" as "less interesting", concluding that although "Valigursky cannot be regarded as a great sf artist, (...) his distinctive style will always be fondly associated with the simple pleasure of reading unambitious, unpretentious space adventures."