Art By Aron Wiesenfeld.

Carlo Rambaldi designs for ALIEN (1979). Effects artist Rambaldi was hired to make the head do its thing basically, the original design of course was Giger’s.

That skull one though. Nightmare.

Sony Walkman ad, circa 1980. So high tech.

I had a 1989 Sony Walkman. I remember playing the Twin Peaks Soundtrack cassette on it forever; the batteries would always run out so that everything sounded like a syrupy nightmare.

Anyway, art by Dennis Magdich.

French stop-motion/live action film, Alice in Wonderland (1949). With puppets by Lou Bunin.

A Marilyn Monroe robot, by Japanese inventor, Shunichi Mizuno. 1982.

No thank you.

(Images from the great site, Cybernetic Zoo.)

Facehugger concept art by H.R. Giger. ALIEN (1979).

Concept art for the beings from John Carpenter’s IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994). Not sure about the specific artists, but the creature designs were done by the KNB EFX Group, founded by Robert Kurtzman, Greg Nicotero, and Howard Berger.

Concept drawings by Mark McCreery for JURASSIC PARK (1993) and its sequel.

NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET fun.

Some dinosaur art. Concept art of a sleeping T-Rex for a cut scene from JURASSIC PARK; designs by William Stout for what became Disney’s DINOSAUR (2000); and storyboard art from JURASSIC PARK.

Illustrations by Chica for a 1976 French edition of THE HOBBIT. Love that Gollum.

I’ve featured several foreign editions of the book (and LOTR in general) now. It’s interesting to compare the different versions and styles, the literal and the faithful, and the wild and the weird. Illustrations that differ too much from the descriptions in the book can be jarring, whereas illustrations that too literally depict what’s already vividly described in prose can make you wonder, Why even bother with illustrations?