(1955-    ) US illustrator, Comics artist, filmmaker and author, in whose sf novel, Alien Plague (1979) as by Stephard Noir, in which a medical Disaster is sourced to the Outer Planets. Under his own name, he is best known for an sf Satire framed as a photo-documentary, The Extraterrestrial Report: The First Fully Documented Account Exposing the Awful Danger from Beyond (graph 1978), which spoofs various Paranoias, including UFO "sightings". [JC]

Richard Siegel II

born Los Angeles, California: 27 May 1955

died

works

• Alien Plague (New York: Carlyle Books, 1979) as by Stephard Noir [pb/Robert Burger]

nonfiction

• The Extraterrestrial Report: The First Fully Documented Account Exposing the Awful Danger from Beyond (New York: A & W Visual Library, 1978) [hb/]
• Alien Creatures (Los Angeles, California: Reed Books/Addison House, 1978) [nonfiction: graph: photos of Cinema and Television Aliens: pb/]
• Fantastic Planets (Danbury, New Hampshire: Reed Books/Addison House, 1979) with David Owen [nonfiction: graph: photos from Cinema and Television sf: hb/]

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