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Lynch, David
(1946-2025) US actor, artist and musician and primarily filmmaker whose work extended Surrealism into mainstream Cinema and Television. Lynch's films tend to examine the uneasy truce between rationality and the unconscious mind by revealing how intimations of Sex, Identity and death make themselves felt in modern American communities. The term Lynchian was defined by David Foster ...
Targete, Jean Pierre
(1967- ) US illustrator, primarily of Fantasy subjects but of much sf too, who has worked also as Jean Targete and J P Targete. He received his formal art training in courses at Miami's Performing and Visual Arts Center (PAVAC; now the New World School of the Arts), while he was still in high school, and then, with a scholarship from the publisher Scholastic, at the School of the Visual Arts in New York City. After graduation, he began ...
Owen, Richard
Joint pseudonym of US authors Dennis Fawcett (1942- ) and David Nott (? - ) for The Eye of the Gods (1978), set in the Venezuelan jungle where a prehistoric Monster lurks, and perhaps a Lost World to boot. [JC]
Anime
Loanword in Japanese, derived from "animation", thought to be in occasional use since the rise of locally-made feature cartoons in the late 1950s, but popularized through its appropriation by Osamu Tezuka on the production of the Television series Tetsuwan Atomu ["Mighty Atom"] (1963; vt Astro Boy). Tezuka used the truncated term to refer to a truncated product, ...
Inoue Hisashi
(1934-2010) Japanese playwright and author with an oddly wide-ranging resumé that touched, briefly and powerfully, on the sf genre. Sent to a Catholic boarding school after his father's death, Inoue was baptised as a Christian and switched majors at Sophia University from German to French. / Already writing and producing his own plays at the time of his graduation, he paid the bills with scripts, beginning with the Radio play ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...