Peter Jones Cover Gallery (0000)

There is so much of Peter Jones artwork that I love, especially his work on the Larry Niven books, but for the purposes of this blog, here's some with spacemen in them

Steve

Spaceship Medic by Harry Harrison

What an absolute peach of a cover by Peter Jones for this Puffin edition from 1983

And here is the 1976 (?) version from the same publisher.  Artist Tony Roberts

 

1970 Faber Hardback cover design by Gask & Page

 

1970 Doubleday edition Artist unknown

Steve

Of Time and Stars - A C Clarke (1974) Peter Jones

First published in 1972.  This edition is from 1974 and was used on both the Penguin edition and the Puffin edition.

Steve

Deep Space - Silverberg (1977) Peter Jones

We've looked at this artwork before as part of Peter Jones's SolarWinds collection.  Normally I appreciate the raw artwork as is but with that sci-fi font and the framing of the key part it's looking about as sexy as it's ever going to get.

Steve

Lord Tedric: The Space Pirates (1979) Peter Jones

And here's another in the  Lord Tedric series of  books by E E Doc Smith, also published by Star paperbacks in the late 70's

And its another example of the fine brush work of Peter Jones although there's a hint of Chris Foss about this piece with some sharp angles and deliberate colour clashing that seems at odds with the artists usual sleek design.  I guess it would have been hard not to be influenced by Foss, who seemed to be painting nearly every other sci-fi cover going back then although his speciality tended to be massive space ships rather than our much loved spacemen.  For examples of his work you only have to look as far as most the other E E Doc Smith covers from the time.

Still, there's enough of Jones' own stylings here to be able to recognise and appreciate it.

Steve

Lord Tedric (1978) Peter Jones

Here's the cover for Star paperback edition of Lord Tedric by E E Doc Smith from 1978

The artwork is by the rather wonderful Peter Jones, who we've looked at before in this blog and who I think we'll be looking at again in the near future because each new example is such a treat for the eye and heart.

Steve

Solar Winds (1980) Peter Jones

Published by Paper Tiger in 1980, Solar Winds is a collection of the sci-fi artworks of Peter Jones.

And from it's pages I have here a couple of close-up scans of Peter's take on the spaceman.

As you can see there's an original sleek design at play here and an aesthetic consistency between the two outfits.

I'll see if I can track down some further examples of this artists amazing take on the spacesuit because he certainly adds something quite unique to the heritage.


Steve