Friday, July 3, 2009

The Kneifels. The story of the Raumpatrouille Orion novels is actually a rather long and complicated one. Which has got nothing to do with what I'm on about, but then why not; let's submerge ourselves into literary SF history. The novelisations of the 7-episode TV Series were written by the SF author Hans Kneifel and the first paperbacks were published in 1968 by Moewig Verlag. Here's the front cover of Planet außer Kurs: After that, it went on and on. Kneifel wrote 35 of those paperbacks, all of them published with Moewig. Then it all stopped. Booklets ("Hefte") were published in the early and mid-seventies, all within the Terra Astra series, again by Moewig. Exactly 145 of those, written by various authors, although Hans Kneifel was still involved: And in 1990 the first seven episodes appeared as books again, this time published by Haffmans Verlag in Zürich. Fabulously done — a new design, Hans Kneifel himself went through all the old typescripts, added paragraphs where necessary, deleted paragraphs where necessary, inserted more humour; he almost rewrote the old books. What a great edition this was: Anyway, all of those covers refer back to the television series. Boring. Living in the late sixties, early seventies, what would a book designer have done without using photos or illustrations? So here's my take on those book covers. The full set can be seen over at my posterous website. 9:01:03 AM   Cult, My Sketchbooks, Orion Pics | |

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The Cask of Amontillado. Considering that I did this many years ago with the crappy Bryce software, it's actually not that bad. 11:27:27 AM   My Sketchbooks | |

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Fab. ralf, issue #1 - a print run of 25, full colour throughout, now let the show begin. Before anyone asks, they are not for sale - I intend to send them out to publishing companies and a few ad agencies in the hope it may generate some work for me. However, there may be an issue #2 following, which then can possibly be ordered via Lulu. In case anyone's interested. 1:03:47 PM   My Sketchbooks | |

Saturday, June 13, 2009

This is looking really good. With many thanks to George Parker, Axel Hinnen, Stefan Scheer, Gerry Smith, Arnfried Weiss and Lulu. 12:06:08 PM   Art & Advertising, My Sketchbooks | |

Friday, June 12, 2009

The Martian Diary. The creature screamed even more. This whole diary is getting worse. Something is going to happen, that's for sure. But what? Dangerous times on Mars; this bloke is going mental. 4:51:47 PM   My Sketchbooks, The Martian Diary | |

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Write like a Cartoonist. If you want to write like the Cartoonist, you can download the Cartoonist's handwriting right here, for Mac and/or Windows. (Cartoonist, Cartoonist bold, zipped archive). This is a proper font and comes in a light and bold variety. I recommend the bold one anyway. With many thanks to Your Fonts, Doktor Schwoerer, and Jürgen Schöneich. 12:33:00 AM   My Sketchbooks, This & That | |

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Phillip. Or is that Philipp? 6:24:06 PM   My Sketchbooks | |