{"id":3527,"date":"2014-09-12T12:11:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T16:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2014-09-12T12:11:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T16:11:03","slug":"a-gallery-of-ed-emshwiller-covers-from-the-50s-and-60s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/12\/a-gallery-of-ed-emshwiller-covers-from-the-50s-and-60s\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gallery of Ed Emshwiller covers from the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/geekynerfherder.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/11\/pulp-sci-fi-fantasy-cover-art-ed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx3\/blog\/emsh01.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Emshwiller Christmas cover for Galaxy Science Fiction - Jan. 1956\" width=\"501\" height=\"537\" class=\"img_wide_open\"><\/a>\n<p>\nTheres&#8217;a a large <a href=\"http:\/\/geekynerfherder.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/11\/pulp-sci-fi-fantasy-cover-art-ed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gallery of Ed Emshwiller covers<\/a> over at <em>The Geeky Nerfherder<\/em>. I found them this morning through Charlie Jane Anders&#8217; helpful <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/the-cover-artist-who-combined-sense-of-humor-and-sen-1633721159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link<\/a> at i09.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/geekynerfherder.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/11\/pulp-sci-fi-fantasy-cover-art-ed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx3\/blog\/emsh02.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Emshwiller 1950's magazine cover\" width=\"240\" height=\"326\" class=\"img_flush_right\"><\/a> \n<p>Emshwiller is probably best remembered for the Christmas covers he used to paint for <em>Galaxy<\/em> magazine. (In fact I&#8217;ve been meaning to do a sort of homage to those for the Pulp-O-Mizer; just haven&#8217;t gotten around to it.)<\/p>\n<p>But he painted plenty of covers that didn&#8217;t feature a four-armed Santa Claus, and it&#8217;s nice to see so many of them collected together.<\/p><p>These are a little too modern for my taste; that might be because some, like the Andre Norton book covers, are things that I can <em>actually remember<\/em>. But &#8211; all questions of anti-nostalgia and decade prejudice aside &#8211; there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/geekynerfherder.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/11\/pulp-sci-fi-fantasy-cover-art-ed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some fine work in there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;re done browsing, you can read a bit more about Emshwiller at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulpartists.com\/Emsh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Field Guide To Wild American\t \nPulp Artists<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emshwiller is probably best remembered for the Christmas covers he used to paint for Galaxy magazine. (In fact I&#8217;ve been meaning to do a sort of homage to those for the Pulp-O-Mizer; just haven&#8217;t gotten around to it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}