Look what I found! It's a scan of the original art for the September 16, 1978 edition of
TV Guide magazine, painted by
David Edward Byrd." I've made fun of this cover before for the artist's transparent attempt to pass off
2001: A Space Odyssey's iconic
Discovery spacecraft as the mighty Colonial Battlestar
Galactica -- but looking at it again, it's actually a pretty nifty painting (although the colors on this scan do differ considerably from those on the published cover).
And here's the art as it appeared on the actual magazine cover. This really brings back memories, and illustrates just what a big event
Battlestar Galactica was for 70's network television.....
ADDENDUM: Thanks to
Space: 1970 reader/
Galactica blogger "aficionadofan," here's a
link to the painting on artist David Byrd's own site.
Art by David Edward Byrd. He has a website which talks about how he got involved in the art, too.
ReplyDeleteAnd, in case anyone's interested, another previous link to it: http://galacticasagaofastarworld.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/classic-art-tv-guide-debut.html
The spaceship reuse is kind of ironic considering the Galactica was later shown on the cover of a Star Trek TNG novel...
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I saved our copy of that issue for many, many years before it finally disappeared. I've since picked up another on eBay, but I wish I had the tattered original. Even as a kid, I knew that wasn't the Galactica up there in the corner, but always thought it was a cool painting regardless...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work. It would make a great poster.
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