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more about #retro capnrob: Well, on one point, I must comment, here; I don't remember when Campbell and Hubbard had their falling out, so I can't attribute the content here to t... more » Perhaps Not: That "Midnight Snack" illo has an amazing Jim Woodring vibe. Super cool. These posts are great, Lauren. more » BadUncle: It's like J. Otto Seibold and Gary Baseman had an unholy child. more » vulcanized: These are great. Lauren, I love all these illustrators you've been featuring. Keep 'em coming! more » NotChoinski: Reminds me of Samurai Jack. more » tetracycloide: "presumably in Washington, D.C." presumably? you've got a picture of the exact same building taken from the exact same corner later in the article cle... more » Klebert L. Hall: Um, there's nothing supernatural about spontaneous combustion... Happens all the time at wood-pulp plants, for example. I expect this happened in pape... more » B: It was caused by a Terminator who was sent back in time. more » Mount_Prion: Parasite Eventide? more » reekon: I think somebody just wanted to get rid of the adjacent building. And from the looks of the new pic, it seems they wanted a park. So maybe it's acutal... more » AngryEddy: "Retro Pyrokinesis" is a tag that needs much more content assigned to it. And I'm going with an engraver suddenly bursting into flames. In my imaginat... more » crashedpc - Haifisch: Nice tag... "retro pyrokinesis". Reminds me of the old-school game "Blood"... "It burns it burns it burns aaaaaaaaagh!" more » -
#astoundinglylatereviews
1950s Science Fiction Loved Neanderthals, Feared Polio
Did you know we made scientific advances in the last half century? It amazed me, too. Step back into a carefree world of spaceships, human-neanderthal orgies, and polio as I pick up a fifty-five-year-old copy of Astounding Science Fiction. More » -
#monsterart
Retro Illustrations of Monsters at Work and Play
Illustrator Juan Molinet blends science fiction concepts with classic cartoon inspiration to create quirky scenes featuring monsters, robots, and spacemen as they conquer the world, try to get home, or just enjoy a pleasant day outside. More » -
#retropyrokinesis
A Case of Spontaneous Combustion from 1916?
This photograph from 1916 is of a fire at the Treasury Dept.'s "Bureau of Engraving and Printing," presumably in Washington, D.C. Mysteriously, however, whomever labeled it described the fire as "spontaneous combustion." More » -
#forbiddenplanet
Forbidden Planet Movie Won't Be Retro After All
With the liberally revamped version of The Day The Earth Stood Still opening next month, it seemed weird that J. Michael Straczynski was rumored to be writing a retro Forbidden Planet movie that kept the peachy keen 1950s look of the original intact. And now it turns out the rumors were wrong — Straczynski piped up on a Usenet group to say the new movie won't be a continuation of the original, and it won't look like some kind of 1950s pastiche. So how will he pay tribute to the original? More » -
#swag
Cool Battlestar and Star Wars Collectables of Yesteryear
Back in the early 1980s, little Derek Powazek collected several cups from Burger King with old-school Battlestar Galactica and Return of the Jedi art on them. Now he's rescued them from destruction in his family home, and has turned them into lovely portraits of a bygone era in scifi swag. Here are a few more, below. More » -
#conceptart
A Spaceship On Fire Off The Shoulder Of Orion
Actually, we aren't sure if this is Orion, but we just couldn't pass up a nice Blade Runner reference. This spaceship or space station looks like it's been attacked and is about to fall victim to the gravity of the planet below, and it couldn't be more beautiful. More » -
