FUQUA, Robert

   Pseudonym of Chicago-based US illustrator Joseph Wirt Tillotson (? -), used by him on sf cover paintings (although some of his black-and-white work appeared under his own name). For some time a staff artist for ZIFF-DAVIS magazines, RF painted 25 covers for AMZ 1938-44 and 7 forFantastic Adventures. In the 1950s, away from Ziff-Davis, he contributed to the Chicago magazines Imagination and Other Worlds. He might have been better known had he worked also for New York-based publishers, but he always restricted himself to Chicago. One of the more prominent sf illustrators of the 1930s and 1940s, RF used very bright colours to compensate for poor reproduction processes. His melodramatic style - the very essence of PULP-MAGAZINE sf - perfectly complemented the lurid Ziff-Davis fiction.

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