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Cover illustration by Louis S. Glanzman

Info from ISFDB

Cover illustration by Charles Binger

Info from ISFDB

𝚁𝚊𝚢 𝙱𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚢 Los Angeles, 1980

West magazine cover, inside is the first story from Bradbury's martian chronicles in Bande Dessines /comic book form

I love bradburys writing, he's a master of gothic, by turns movingly compassionate and truly frightening

Al Parker illustration for Ray Bradbury

"do your own bit of saving. that way, if you drown, at least you'll die knowing you were heading for shore."

that burning guilt you feel

"And if you look" -- she nodded at the sky -- "there's a man in the moon." He hadn't looked for a long time.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

ray bradbury was right: "September. In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason" etc

An illustration sketch for chapter one of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.

I'd say there's more to come as I dog-eared a bunch of scenes I'd love to draw, but I had to return the book to my brother-in-law.

"My stories run up and bite me in the leg — I respond by writing them down — everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off."

Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (22nd August 1920-2012)

"It was September. In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason."

– Ray Bradbury

The October Country - Book Cover

September Loneliness

Ray Bradbury// September Morn, Paul Émile Chabas// "Persephone", Alice Jones// Painting with the Padre, Daniel Garber// Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami// Sunny September, Helen McNicoll// "Autumn Psalm", Julia de Burgos

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1929-2012) - It Came From Outer Space, 1970

Happy 100th birthday, Ray Bradbury (b. 22 August 1920) 

Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, 1950

Ray Bradbury - Dark Carnival. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948. First British edition. Octavo.

Art by Michael Ayrton.

Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury, photos around my hometown

'Yes, Mr. Douglas, insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.'

— Ray Bradbury, "The Meadow"

“So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.”

— Ray Bradbury, “Zen in the Art of Writing”

"Can you oppose the forces that see that people die just when they are supposed to die - not too soon, not too late?"

Fred Humiston (1902-1976) - Illustration for Ray Bradbury's 'The Scythe'

(Weird Tales - July 1943)

"This is dedicated to those who have lost the game of the elements, by one who has always escaped . . . until tonight"

A. R. Tilburne (1887-1965) - Illustration for Ray Bradbury's 'The Wind'

(Weird Tales - March 1943)

"Science fiction is the art of the possible."

—Ray Bradbury, born on this day in 1920

2 unusual editions of Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’.

There I strolled, lost in love, down the corridors, and through the stacks, touching books, pulling volumes out, turning pages, thrusting volumes back, drowning in all the good stuffs that are the essence of libraries. What a place, don’t you agree, to write a novel about burning books in the Future! —Ray Bradbury/Zen in the Art of Writing