#Fictional Magazine Cover

[onyx-archer]

Hey, a second commission sharing post in one day? It’s more likely than you’d think. This one is by the artist Sinizade on Twitter (you can scan the QR Code, or click HERE!), and it features Abigail and Olivia on an in-universe magazine cover promoting their first single off of their upcoming third album. The song is called “Not Your Nymphet!” and is loosely based on the novel “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov, but it’s sung from the perspective of Dolores Haze. I went into this whole thing with the idea of the song, and Sinizade helped bring the vague elements (like the broken iconography of the movie versions of the book) into a proper cover image. I wasn’t even sure about the angle she chose, but it ended up looking stellar in my opinion. I actually wanted to make something involving this concept for a while, but didn’t think I’d commission a magazine cover. It forced me to make the band name (VANDOLLZ), and the name of a publication in universe (Guerilla Radio), and to properly name the song and album (”Not Your Nymphet!” and “Burnt Books Make Burnt People” respectively). I just wanted to make something like an album cover with the imagery of the broken Sunglasses, Lollipop, and Scrunchie... as if they were broken by Dolores herself. I’m going on and on about what this is because I put a lot of thought into the symbolism and the meaning behind the song, and the album name. The song is because a lot of people don’t really get the point of Lolita, at least in my view, and I wanted to focus on the fact that Dolores was a victim in the story, and how stuff like the Sunglasses symbolize the skewed view of the story. The Album Title came about because of the quote  "Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn people" by German writer Heinrich Heine. He was a writer that would later have his own work burned by Nazis, save for a single poem that would be republished without his name attached by the Nazis. It struck me as a good quote. I have a few more ideas based on banned/challenged books that factor into the album, though some of those books will be more contested than others. They’ll usually have some sort of spin on them though. I actually have a second commission from Sinizade in the works right now, so look forward to that if you like this one, and go follow her on her socials.

[ibelieveinturtles]

SCOOP

Soulmate stories have been fascinating us for centuries! Here at Scoop, we bring you the good, the bad, and the downright incredible stories of soulmates from all over the world!

Title: Scoop Magazine Cover Squares Filled: Tony Stark Bingo (7071): Adopted Prompt, Writing Format: unreliable narrator Creator: ibelieveinturtles Rating: G Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe Pairing: Pepper Potts/Tony Stark Summary: A cover I created for fictional gossip magazine ‘Scoop’ to go with the next chapter of “Soulmate For The New Year.” During her layover at Sydney airport, Darcy comes across a pair of abandoned magazines. She almost ignores them because of their soulmate heavy content but when she realises that they feature contradicting stories about the most famous pair of soulmates in the world—Pepper Potts and Tony Stark—she can’t resist, and takes them both with her to read while waiting for her plane.

@tonystarkbingo @darcylewisbingohq

[thefugitivesaint]

Alicia Austin, ''Science Fiction Review'', #39, Aug. 1970 Source

[sad-endings-suck]

I need to reblog this for posterity. Cuz come season 2 those Taigen haters are gonna have a real quick turnaround, and I am not a gatekeeper but I will absolutely pull out the receipts and make fun of them for not noticing how fine he is until however many years later.

yas slay bisexual king ⚔️

[texaschainsawmascara]

[misforgotten2]

A book you very likely don’t have on your shelf #676

1973

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Master of the Asteroid - art by Frank R. Paul (1932)

[kilianromero]

Illustration by John Fleming Gould for The Spider Cover (1942)

[technician-the]

Astounding Scifi was a leading scifi magazine of the pulp era, and ran until 1960, when it was rebranded as Analog, which is still running today (I think). The title had previously changed several times in the early years of the magazine but always kept the Astounding form and logo design.

I find this series of titles/logos interesting, you can really see the gradual evolution of the design, and a slow shift in general tastes. The first image shows the main versions. Ive also added a gif version, I spent some time lining up the covers, but the big jumps are the title moving around the page, (I left them it because it shows how in some eras the title was always in one place, and in others it was placed based on the drawing. )

Also, Ive isolated some of the story titles, I think the main/logo fonts/styles show up in the story titles before they start using them in the logo, but also there's some really cool design there. the most interesting ones (love that lettering on Lovecraft ^^) come from the 1930s, when I suspect the cover text (except possibly for the main logo) was drawn by hand. In that period the typographic designs are very diverse, but over time this diversity waned, until In 1950's they switched to using a single (dull T_T) font for all the text on the cover.

[kekwcomics]

ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION (Smith & Street, 1941) British Edition.

"Time Wants a Skeleton"

Art: Hubert Rogers

[pinkinsect]

they should let me cite my tumblr mutuals on academic papers

[70sscifiart]

[welcome-leon]

@colesabi mentioned this statue looks like re1 Chris so I started doodling, as one does…. and somehow it's turning into a STARS Edition nudie mag 😳 how? why? I don’t have answers for you. anyway I’m partway done, if anyone has ideas for RE-themed headlines I can add to it pls let me know 😂

[thefugitivesaint]

Hajime Sorayama, ''Fantastyka'', #2, 1985 Source

[blocpulp]

Youth Technology magazine (USSR, 1974)

Cover page artist uncredited

Caption reads "The living medicine factory"

[emmieexplores2]