John Schoenherr

In January or February 1961, John Schoenherr painted this cover for More Macabre edited by Donald, A. Wollheim, published by Ace Books. It ...

My father didn’t keep a lot of his papers, but, fortunately, one of the letters he preserved was written by author Anne McCaffrey on Septem...

John Schoenherr’s one, slim connection to author Peter Matthiessen , who died yesterday, was his cover for the paperback version of The Clou...

My friend since the fifth grade, science writer Carl Zimmer , spoke to the radio show Studio 360 about my dad. There's a little slides...

Not long ago I posted John Schoenherr’s cover for City Under the Sea . Well, now, here are some suburbs under the sea. My father painted ...

According to John Schoenherr’s work log, job #226 came along on February 7, 1962: it was from Dell, a cover for “Tales From A Tomb” [ sic ...

I just got word that Michael Heilemann’s exhaustive exposé on the origins of Chewbacca (including John Schoenherr’s unwitting involvement, w...

Frank Herbert is purported to have said that John Schoenherr was “the only man who has ever visited Dune.”* Well, thanks to Schoenherr’s ...

In honor of Cordwainer Smith ’s 100th birthday today, here's John Schoenherr’s cover for The Planet Buyer , published by Pyramid Books i...

An appreciation of John Schoenherr’s science fiction work by Paul Cook just appeared on the Amazing Stories site.

From file770.com comes this: A petition urging the Obama administration to proceed with a set of commemorative postage stamps honoring sf ...

In trying to piece together the early career of my father, John Schoenherr, I’ve been actively accumulating copies of the pulp magazines ...

Another long-lost, early John Schoenherr illustration has come to light, thanks to the work log that I found a few weeks ago: it's t...

This an odd way to commemorate the third anniversary of my father's death, but maybe it'll leaven the gloom. Last week, going ...

A few years into my dad's illustration career, he began to do spots for a "men's magazine" called MEN . Here's one...

Here's a paperback cover my dad was commissioned to do in December 1964 for Paul W. Fairman's City Under the Sea (Pyramid Publi...

Maurice Sendak, who died today, met and corresponded with my father some 43 or 44 years ago. Only four of the letters and just one of the...

Although I knew that some of Dad’s pictures inspired certain other things , I didn’t realize that one of his early science fiction covers se...

Like many young illustrators of his generation, John Schoenherr did whatever hack work he could find after leaving art school. So, while his...

I’m embarrassed to say that, until yesterday, I’d never before seen this paperback cover for Sally Carrighar’s One Day at Beetle Rock . Dad...

Here is an obscure piece of Rascal ephemera, which used Dad’s frontispiece illustration from the book. I think it was a promotional print, ...

Dad’s jacket art for Robert Murphy’s The Golden Eagle , published by Dutton in 1965. I assume the original painting was gouache on illustrat...

I keep looking and looking, but I just can’t find the reference photo that Dad used in making this illustration for Allan W. Eckert’s Incide...

Note: This post was significantly expanded on April 8, 2014 My father introduced me to Sherlock Holmes when I was 11. I’d already been ...