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Hildebrandt, The Brothers

Working name for the team of American artists Gregory J Hildebrandt (1939-2024) and Timothy Mark Allen Hildebrandt (1939-2006), identical twin brothers, although they also worked separately using the working names Greg Hildebrandt and Tim Hildebrandt. They will forever be regarded primarily as the definitive illustrators of J R R Tolkien because of the famous Tolkien calendars that featured their paintings of his characters; oddly enough, except for one 1975 ...

Benson, Stella

(1892-1933) UK author who did volunteer work during World War One; her first three novels, each with some transfigured autobiographical content, are set in a wartime frame. The first, I Pose (1915) is nonfantastical. In the second, This Is the End (1917), a young woman in London creates a fantasy world to retreat to, causing relatives to scour the countryside for her; but the death in combat of her ...

Avon Comics

US Comics publisher, a division of Avon Books/Avon Periodicals Inc which published several sf and Horror titles between 1945 and 1955, when the imprint was discontinued. One title of some note was the anthology comic Strange Worlds, which saw eighteen issues on an irregular schedule from 1950 to 1952. This printed work by Alvin C Hollingsworth (1928-2000) – one of the first African-American ...

Scotten, Cordell

(?1921-2003) US author whose interest in sf seems to have lasted only a year, from his first and only story, "The Hijacking of the Pony Express" in Analog for February 1989, to his novel a few months later, a Tie to the Isaac Asimov's Robot City Shared World series, Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Robots and Aliens 2: Renegade (1989), which interestingly has three ...

Popeye

Popeye was created by Elzie Crisler Segar (1894-1938) for Thimble Theatre – his syndicated newspaper comic strip that began in 1919 – first appearing in the strip for 17 January 1929: the character's popularity led to its being renamed Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye a couple of years later. He subsequently featured in Comic books, animated cartoons, 1930s Radio shows and the live action movie Popeye ...

Nicholls, Peter

(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...



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