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Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue drops tomorrow, all about Ed Emshwiller's series of four-armed Santa covers for Galaxy magazine! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io
A Santa with four arms is in his moonbase, with the airlock open to a group of alien carolers. Galaxy magazine cover text is visible. Santa sweats as he studies up on books about intergalactic travel and alien manners. Behind his desk is a massive range of computer banks listing the good and bad kids from across the universe. Galaxy magazine cover text is visible. Santa has four arms. He's at an intergalactic mall surrounded by a varied group of aliens, with a green alien kid on his knee. The four-armed Santa is at a restaurant filled with humans and a squiggling blue type of alien.
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I would put a note on my Fermilab cubicle when I left on long vacations. For several years in a row, I repurposed one of Emsh's Santas for my announcements.

In 2019, I covered the Arrokoth encounter, beyond Pluto.
Ed Emshwiller's painting of a four-armed Santa in red and white, flying his reindeer-drawn sleigh through a night sky. He waves at another figure driving a flying sleigh, carrying a bag full of gifts. His colleague, a blue-skinned, bug-eyed person with at least three legs, but likewise dressed in red and white, smiles broadly as he, or she, or it, or they, wave back. The green creatures drawing this sleigh are vaguely dinosaurian, but with an alien flavor. The gifts in the colleague's bag are blue-skinned dolls and other weird-looking toys, no doubt perfect for their recipients. I love this one! Ed Emshwiller's painting of his four-armed Santa for the January 1956 issue of GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION. I quote Adam Rowe's description: "The now-traditional Christmas cover arrives in January of 1956, and this time we're seeing a new side of four-armed Santa: The prep stage. He's sweating, he's doing math, he's drinking coffee out of his rocket-themed kettle. This cover has the most fun little storytelling details to spot. There's an endless line of computer banks holding data on the kids of the galaxy, grouped by solar system and split into "good" and "bad" sides. There's a pile of letters on the left, no doubt labelled with the names of Emshwiller's friends, and a bunch of book titles to emphasize the enormity of Santa's workload (which even includes educating himself on intra-galactic manners with Mores of Mars and Behavior Patterns Through the Galaxy. Emsh reserves his signature for the funniest one, How to Manage Reindeer in Space."
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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M. Snyder. From David Owen, Richard Siegel & Jean-Claude Suares, Fantastic Planets, Reed Books, 1979.
December 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Syd Mead's concept art for an Arctic Mobile Operation Base, issued by U.S. Steel, 1965.
December 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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If you are feeling blue about the holidays, @70sscifiart.bsky.social will cheer you up with this four-armed Santa (and more):
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Ed Emshwiller's Four-Armed Santa Claus
For the first decade of Galaxy Science Fiction’s 30-year-run, Ed Emshwiller illustrated a total of eight Christmas-themed issues featuring the same character. The version of Santa Claus on these 1950...
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December 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Twas the Night Before Christmas, and All Through
the House Little Creatures Were Stirring, Strewing
Bodies About! - art by Ken Kelly
December 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Joe Jusko, 1982
December 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Art by Manuel Pérez Clemente (aka Sanjulián) 🪓🩸🎄
December 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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All the snazzy covers of Unwinnable Monthly from 2025. Text reads: Unwinnable: Good Writing Since 2010.
December 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Christmas goes awry in Ken Kelly’s cover art for Creepy, issue no. 86, 1977.
December 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Wishing you and your loved ones a wonderful Christmas with this beautiful illustration by Ralph McQuarrie! ✨
December 24, 2023 at 4:04 PM
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If I somehow ever received a Christmas card from Ralph McQuarrie I would keep it in one of those glass boxes filled with inert gas and only show it in dim light so that it may last forever like the Declaration of Independence.
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Ralph McQuarrie's 1994 Lucasfilm Christmas Card of Jawas enjoying some holiday gift giving.
December 22, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue drops tomorrow, all about Ed Emshwiller's series of four-armed Santa covers for Galaxy magazine! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io
A Santa with four arms is in his moonbase, with the airlock open to a group of alien carolers. Galaxy magazine cover text is visible. Santa sweats as he studies up on books about intergalactic travel and alien manners. Behind his desk is a massive range of computer banks listing the good and bad kids from across the universe. Galaxy magazine cover text is visible. Santa has four arms. He's at an intergalactic mall surrounded by a varied group of aliens, with a green alien kid on his knee. The four-armed Santa is at a restaurant filled with humans and a squiggling blue type of alien.
December 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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December 15, 2023 at 2:01 AM
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Frank Kelly Freas
January 1955 cover to Astounding Science Fiction magazine. A rocketship ready for launch is visible in the reflection of the tree ornament. The tree has tinsel as well, and appears to be on the surface of the moon.
December 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Edward Mortelmans. Front and rear cover art from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Part One, Dragon (Atlantic Book Publishing), 1967. #EdwardMortelmans #EdgarRiceBurroughs #jewel #Tarzan
December 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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New blog post: Weekend links 809
Weekend links 809
Atlantis by Sarah Hubacher. • Regular readers will know Leigh Wright from his Wyrd Daze creations which I've linked here many times in the past. (The same goes for his frequent Mixcloud compilations.) Leigh's wife died recently which means he now has to return to the UK from Canada where he doesn't have permanent resident status. His request for help is…
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December 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Great mail day. This cover art by Hector Garrido is gorgeous! The first book could’ve made it onto @70sscifiart.bsky.social time machines post. Some nostalgic reading is in order.
December 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Every day, and especially today (and yesterday and tomorrow, and so on), trans rights are human rights.
December 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Now that I've spent December celebrating everyone else's books, it seems only fair to mention my own! Here’s my trilogy of visual grimoires exploring magic, darkness, and wonder for occult enthusiasts, gothic souls, and fantasy world-builders unquietthings.com/buy-my-book/
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Les Edwards' 2016 Christmas card
Santa Claus strolls through a thick green jungle, with a snarling T-rex right behind him. A signpost nearby reads "Pellucidar" and points off to the right.
December 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Don Maitz's cover art detail for Robert Stallman's The Orphan (1980)
#fantasy #books #art #artist
A large beast with horns protects a small boy with red hair. There's a barn in the distance.
December 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Cover and interior art by John Buscema and John Romita, Sr., for the 1974 Marvel Treasury Special
Thor, the Human Torch, Spider-Man, the Hulk, Captain America, and the Thing all burst out of a ring of holly on the cover. A bunch of Marvel heroes including Daredevil and the Fantastic Four all stand on the top of a giant snowball held up by the Hulk, with Spider-Man clinging to one side. The table of contents is printed on the snowball itself. The Thing is dressed like Santa, and flashes a peace sign as he walks away from a Christmas tree with five recent Marvel comics issues beneath it. The back cover features the backends of all the heroes on the front cover, revealing that the Thing is holding a present addressed to the Yancy Street Gang, and the Hulk has a present that he has crushed in his fist.
December 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Wally Wood.
A Wally Wood piece of art of aliens, spacemen, and robots playing poker.
December 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Edward Mortelmans. Front and rear cover art from the abridged version of Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Beasts of Tarzan, Dragon (Atlantic Book Publishing), 1967. #EdwardMortelmans #EdgarRiceBurroughs #beast #Tarzan
December 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM