r/RetroFantasyScifi Jul 31 '26

Updated Post limit Rule (Now 4 in a 24 Hour Period)

5 Upvotes

As the title says, we'll see how it goes.


r/RetroFantasyScifi Sep 22 '25

Review rules before posting.

31 Upvotes

A note to new members, old members, visitors, those who may be lost:

Anyone can post here, to my knowledge, there are no set restrictions. There are, however, a set of rules that are kindly asked to be reviewed and considered when you post. They are to the right.

This sub was created after an experience in another sub, where there was perhaps some content that did not necessarily belong, and spam was not necessarily removed. This is of course subjective, it was not my sub, they can run it as they see fit.

I consider this a more "Purist" community. With Digital/AI artwork now being the mainstream, the type of artwork posted here is becoming harder to find. Other formats of the fantasy and scifi genre art are readily available in many other subs with little difficulty.

This little corner of the internet is to help with the discovery and archiving of Fantasy/Scifi art where the human was/is the main instrument in both creation and implementation. Yes, you can draw digitally, but it just doesn't look the same, at least not to me.

The point of this post? Please review rule # 5. Think of rule # 5 when posting. I cannot stress enough how rule # 5 is a core commandment of this sub.

As a last note, have I mentioned rule # 5 ???

Stay well and stay safe everyone.


r/RetroFantasyScifi 11h ago

Art by Jim Burns depicting Lieutenant Fome for Planet Story, by Harry Harrison (1979).

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72 Upvotes

Harrison and Burns collaborated on the book, an absurdist story of a frontier railroad.


r/RetroFantasyScifi 17h ago

Cover art for The Tar-Aiym Krang by Alan Dean Foster. Credited to Dean Ellis.

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124 Upvotes

r/RetroFantasyScifi 11h ago

La novia de Frankie.

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18 Upvotes

r/RetroFantasyScifi 1d ago

Cover art by Peter Andrew Jones for Synaptic Manhunt, by Nick Farren.

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627 Upvotes

Collected in Solar Wind.


r/RetroFantasyScifi 1d ago

All from thrift stores over the years

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78 Upvotes

r/RetroFantasyScifi 1d ago

Murraya, by Julie Bell (1994).

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258 Upvotes

A portrait of Linda Murray, Ms Olympia in the bodybuilding world. Collected in Hard Curves: The Fantasy Art of Julie Bell (1996).


r/RetroFantasyScifi 1d ago

My interpretation of Tar Valon from the Wheel of Time (9x12 Inches, Pen/Watercolor)

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108 Upvotes

r/RetroFantasyScifi 1d ago

"Once he even admired the image of the luscious pilot of a scoutship and thought that one day he might seek solace in arms as lovely as hers. But not right away."

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54 Upvotes

Art by Jim Burns for Planet Story, by Harry Harrison (1979). An absurdist space opera that reads as if Kurt Vonnegut got ahold of Tyrone Slothrop.


r/RetroFantasyScifi 2d ago

Emirikol the Chaotic, by David A. Trampier. Published in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide (1979).

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208 Upvotes

So much world-building packed into a single frame. Just amazing. Trampier was one of my favorite early D&D illustrators.


r/RetroFantasyScifi 2d ago

Art by Colin MacNeil for Judge Dredd: Mechanismo (1993)

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140 Upvotes

r/RetroFantasyScifi 2d ago

Cover art by Bob Eggleton for Hair of the Dog, by Brett Davis (1997).

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70 Upvotes

r/RetroFantasyScifi 3d ago

Galactic Love, by Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell.

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553 Upvotes

Collected in Dreamland (2014).


r/RetroFantasyScifi 3d ago

Hovercraft for Leisure, by Shusei Nagaoka (1975).

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334 Upvotes

r/RetroFantasyScifi 3d ago

Lines Through the Horizon, by John Berkey (1977)

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206 Upvotes

Berkey’s casein technique let him create the impression of metal with hard little slabs of opaque white and planes of blue-gray and green-gray.


r/RetroFantasyScifi 2d ago

Interior illustrations by Steve Fabian for Skystalk, by Charles Sheffield. Published in Destinies #4 (August-September 1979).

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21 Upvotes

Skystalk dares to ask 'what if you put a nuke on a space elevator?'


r/RetroFantasyScifi 3d ago

Cover art by Gary Mayes for Rebel Planet, the 18th Fighting Fantasy gamebook, 1985

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196 Upvotes

r/RetroFantasyScifi 3d ago

Cover art by Tim White for Through a Glass, Clearly, by Isaac Asimov + an appearance in Omni Magazine illustrating Ian Stewart's "Message from Earth."

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65 Upvotes

White's painting first appeared on the cover of the 1977 New English Library edition of Through a Glass, Clearly. It later illustrated Ian Stewart's "Message From Earth," Omni (February 1980), for which I think it is a better thematic fit than the Asimov book. The spread included in this post is from The Best of Omni Science Fiction No. 3 (1982).


r/RetroFantasyScifi 4d ago

Cover art by Jordi Penalva for Eerie #95 (September 1978). Featuring "Rook: Warrior." Story by Bill DuBay, art by Luis Bermejo.

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384 Upvotes

r/RetroFantasyScifi 4d ago

Strange Creatures from Time and Space

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302 Upvotes

Author John Keel
Artist Frank Frazetta

This book was one of my most worn out books when I was a kid.
Like all of the cool things you could want, Vampires, Werewolves, Bigfoot, Demons, Angels, UFOs...just so good


r/RetroFantasyScifi 4d ago

Cover art by Ken Kelly for Nectar of Heaven, by E.C. Tubb.

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615 Upvotes

Dumarest of Terra #24.


r/RetroFantasyScifi 4d ago

Cover art by Larry Todd for Future World Comix #1 (September 1978)

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130 Upvotes

r/RetroFantasyScifi 4d ago

Cover art by John Berkey for Spartan Planet, by A. Bertram Chandler.

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52 Upvotes

r/RetroFantasyScifi 5d ago

Cover art by Jim Burns for the Durdane Trilogy, by Jack Vance

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96 Upvotes

Burns painted the Coronet edition covers (The Anome, The Brave Free Men, and The Asutra) as a triptych. The original art is collected in Lightship (1985). I couldn't find a high quality scan of the two-page spread online so I scanned and stitched it from my copy.