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You can read my profile/interview with science fiction writer Alfred Bester who won the first Hugo Award for The Demolished Man and set a high standard with the classic The Stars My Destination
in Starlog #128.
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These take a while to download and are giant files, but they've been worth it!
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Hey, Greg! FIRST PRIZE!
Very impressive!
My little War Of The Worlds cartoon was in black & white, and only took up about one third of a page. If I recall correctly, I was paid somewhere around $30 for it!  But that, and the honor of being included in an issue of Starlog was fabulous, compared to the "Sorry, we couldn't use your cartoon" message I received from CFQ.
And, dan the man, Frederick S. Clarke was the founder & editor of CFQ. He & I enjoyed a wonderful working relationship for many years beginning in 1976, when my first cartoon, a Logan's Run send-up appeared.
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TO CHRIS-If you don't want to mention it here I understand, but any clues on why MR CLARKE, ended his life, He seem to have many things going his way, of course we know that does not mean everything when it comes to happiness and satisfaction. After he died as you know the mag went on for a while, was it just me? it didn't seem as good.
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Dan, Fred's staff did their best to continue CFQ without him, but their best could not live up to his vision and determination. The magazine never recovered from his absence. He was a fascinating personality, and I genuinely enjoyed working with him. The best memories I have are of the loooooong phone conversations (my telephone bills more than ate up the $$$ I earned doing artwork for the mag!) where he and I nearly always disagreed about movies. We had some great debates, vigorous and passionate and always friendly. I miss him.
I had to bow out from contributing any further artwork to the magazine after my daughter was born. The realities of life took precedence over the fun I was having working for CFQ while losing my shirt on the money end of it. It was a dream come true that could never pay for itself, so I had to quit. Fred respected my position, and we parted good friends. After that we naturally lost touch, although I continued to read the magazine until sometime after he died. Sorry, I have no clue what happened other than what we all know.
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Good morning, Mr. Phelps...
I just loved saying that...
"The sci-fi genre-film music connection has always gone hand-in-hand."
So true. Since the original King Kong (if not earlier), music has been such a vital part of sci-fi/horror/fantasy films. Those of us who love these genres have simultaneously been exposed to some of the finest film scores ever to grace our ears. And many of us have been watching and hearing since we were wee things.
Thanks Mr. Phelps, for sharing the Starlog connection!
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Storyteller...
"Cinefantastique. An all-time favorite. I still have many issues from the past."
When I was producing artwork for CFQ, Fred Clarke knew that his ability to compensate me financially was severely limited. In lieu of pay (one of my favorite lines from Blazing Saddles...but that's food for another thread), he offered me a complete set of back issues! They were my pride and joy for many years until I lost them all in an unbelievable act of my own stupidity.
Thank God for eBay!
I may never recover the entire set, but...and it's taken me over two years to accomplish this...I now have every single issue that features my artwork! WOO-HOO!!!
OK.
Time to get back to talking about Starlog...
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Cinefantastique is one of the few film magazines of which I kept several issues and still have them. My favs are the issues that included The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Witches of Eastwick, and Brazil. The behind-the-scenes photos were and are stunning! At the time there was no better resource IMO to learn about the artistry of visual effects. The Eastwick article practically covered every visual effects shot. Amazing!
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Hey, Greg! FIRST PRIZE!
Very impressive!
My little War Of The Worlds cartoon was in black & white, and only took up about one third of a page. If I recall correctly, I was paid somewhere around $30 for it! But that, and the honor of being included in an issue of Starlog was fabulous, compared to the "Sorry, we couldn't use your cartoon" message I received from CFQ.
And, dan the man, Frederick S. Clarke was the founder & editor of CFQ. He & I enjoyed a wonderful working relationship for many years beginning in 1976, when my first cartoon, a Logan's Run send-up appeared.
Thanks, Chris. It was a fun piece. I was heavily into my Paul Gulacy phase, then. My head nearly exploded when Starlog contacted me. One of the coolest things that came out of this was the art appearing in the Japanese version of Starlog. Got that in storage somewhere.
And thanks for the backstory info on your time with Cinefantastique. I still have a box of 'em in storage. My favorite issues were the holy trinity of 50s science fiction; Day The Earth Stood Still, War Of The Worlds, and Forbidden Planet. Those issues were the the last word on those films back then.
Greg Espinoza
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Michael24...the Gort binder artwork is mine.
Vincent DiFate painted that wonderful full-color cover for CFQ's retrospective on The Day The Earth Stood Still, but did not wish to convert it into the necessary black & white depiction required to produce those binders. So my phone rang, and Frederick handed me that job. My usual signature doesn't appear on the artwork because I was only reproducing Mr. DiFate's vision in a different medium, and to place my name upon it would have represented a sacrilege in my artist's brain.
"...the holy trinity of 50s science fiction; Day The Earth Stood Still, War Of The Worlds, and Forbidden Planet. Those issues were the the last word on those films back then."
Absolutely they were, and still are, Greg!
And Vincent DiFate painted all of those glorious pieces of cover art!
I had the great honor of meeting him at an exhibition of his incredible work. It's a weekend that I shall always treasure in my heart and mind.
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Thanks, neo.
That Donner Superman cover brings a nearly forgotten tear to my eye, as I had submitted a cartoon concept to appear on the letters page of that issue. My cartoon featured Christopher Reeve flying through the air, Richard Donner flying directly in front of him while directing, and Geoffrey Unsworth flying above them both with his camera. The caption: "You'll Believe THREE MEN Can Fly!" I worked hard to do facial likenesses of all three men for my concept sketch, and believe me it wasn't easy finding photos of Unsworth and Donner to work from. Sadly my cartoon never took flight. Like the proverbial lead balloon, it dropped.
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Aww jeez. NeoT's post just clarified something in my mind...I'm thinking of Cinefex, not Cinefantastique in regard to Eastwick, Munchausen, etc. However, I still have my fav issue of Cinefantastique, which is the one with Hitchcock on the cover standing in the Psycho shower.
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Nope, Thor...
Most of it was destroyed due to water damage in my studio long ago.
That's why I had to resort to eBay to get old back issues that featured my work.
I may still have a handful of old sketches, but anything that was printed ultimately became the property of CFQ, so God only knows what happened to all those originals.
I had been commissioned to produce a full-color cover for a Peter Cushing career issue which was killed after my artwork was completed. That piece of work gathered dust in my studio for years until I finally sold it to a collector via eBay.
Another time I was commissioned to produce a full-color piece of artwork that was to be a full-page display in a George Lucas career article. Again, the article was killed after my art was done, and another expected paycheck went up in smoke.
Can anybody GET why I HAD to quit this fun gig?
Ah...the memories...
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"...my fav issue of Cinefantastique, which is the one with Hitchcock on the cover standing in the Psycho shower."
I have a cartoon in that one, David!
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