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Article: Don Punchatz; drew science-fiction classics
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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NEW YORK - Don Ivan Punchatz - whose surreal art was splashed
on popular horror and science-fiction paperbacks, magazines, and the
first "Star Wars" film poster, influencing a generation of
illustrators - died Oct. 22 near his home in Arlington, Texas. He
was 73.
The cause was cardiac arrest, said his son, Gregor.
Mr. Punchatz was a skilled hyperrealist with a penchant for the
fantastic and absurd. His cover art for works like Isaac Asimov's
"Foundation" trilogy and Harlan Ellison's "Dangerous Visions"
anthology was a striking blend of romantic metaphor and supernatural
fantasy, what one colleague called "elegantly weird." He worked for
the paperback publishers Ace, Dell, Avon, Warner, ...