{"id":4150,"date":"2016-02-11T08:38:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2016-02-11T08:38:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:38:53","slug":"a-collection-of-science-fiction-art-by-alex-schomburg-at-the-golden-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/11\/a-collection-of-science-fiction-art-by-alex-schomburg-at-the-golden-age\/","title":{"rendered":"A collection of science fiction art by Alex Schomburg at The Golden Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldenagesite.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/alex-schomburg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx3\/blog\/schomburg01.jpg\" alt=\"Endpapers by Alex Schomburg\" width=\"501\" height=\"372\" class=\"img_wide_open\"><\/a>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldenagesite.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/alex-schomburg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Golden Age<\/a> has posted a small collection of science fiction book covers and endpapers by Alex Schomburg (Alejandro Schomburg y Rosa), best remembered for these and for his extensive work for Timely Comics in the 1940&#8217;s. Timely would later become Marvel Comics.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Puerto Rico, he came to New York in the 1920&#8217;s and began his career in illustration in the decade that followed.<\/p>\n<p>Schomburg was a Hugo Award nominee in 1962 and went on to collect many other awards during the 1980&#8217;s before finally receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the 47th World Science Fiction Convention in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Of the pictures in this <a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldenagesite.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/alex-schomburg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Golden Age collection<\/a> I think I&#8217;m most fond of the endapaper design above. But you can see many other pieces (with an emphasis on his work for comics) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexschomburg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Schomburg Estate web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldenagesite.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/alex-schomburg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx3\/blog\/schomburg02.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover by Alex Schomburg\" width=\"501\" height=\"561\" class=\"img_wide_between\"><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden Age has posted a small collection of science fiction book covers and endpapers by Alex Schomburg (Alejandro Schomburg y Rosa), best remembered for these and for his extensive work for Timely Comics in the 1940&#8217;s. <\/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-4150","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\/4150","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=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}