George Edward Barr, January 30, 1937-April 19, 2025.

 Steve Fahnestalk is with Tim Kirk.

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It is my sad duty to report that my friend, the fantasy and science fiction artist George Barr, died on Saturday, April 19, 2025. He was a multiple award nominee (Hugo and Locus Awards), a talented pianist, an excellent nonfiction writer (and published fiction writer). We were friends for half a century, and he will be sorely missed. (Photo from ISFDB)

George Edward Barr, January 30, 1937-April 19, 2025.

All reactions:

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His first cover for Fantastic, April 1962:

Another example of Barr's work:

"Cane Fire" by the Peter Moon Band

In the wake of the many contributing factors, at least some involving official negligence, to the fires which have ravaged Lahaina and much of the rest of Maui over the last weeks, a posting of a song, on its surface about official negligence and nonchalance about human life when, post-harvest, the sugar cane plantations would have fires to clear the stalks remaining, and concerns about polluting the air for those who lived nearby (the repeated references to "Save the children!" in the song are about quickly harvesting the hidden marijuana/pakalolo patches various people would cultivate in the standing cane fields), vs. the current situation, where former cane and pineapple plantations have been overrun by guinea grass and other vegetation which has not been adequately controlled, and helped fuel the murderous fires, while various other sorts of bad preparation led in large part to what was more than a hundred human lives lost, among the many other damages. 

Aloha nui loa.  TM (resident on Oahu 1979-1984)

On the attempts at cleanup on Maui in 2024.

Maui/State government reports on the Lahaina-area fire difficulties.

On similar concerns in Florida.

RICHARD LUPOFF, 21 February 1935-22 October 2020

Patricia and Richard Lupoff, 1958 (courtesy File 770)

Richard Lupoff's current archives at KPFA-FM, his Pacifica Radio show devoted to book-people interviews and discussion; the somewhat larger archive of Bookwaves: Cover-to-Cover episodes (includes Lupoff and no-Lupoff episodes)

The File 770 obituary

Locus obituary

At Mystery Fanfare

Xero, the fanzine, archive (important to the sf/fantasy, comics, and film-fan communities, notable for the All in Color for a Dime running series of articles and eventual anthology, Donald Westlake's "resignation" from sf and fantasy writing and responses from a range of writers and editors, the Avram Davidson Birthday Issue, early film criticism from Harlan Ellison and fannish writing from a young Roger Ebert, among much else)

Richard Lupoff's contributions to this blog:

On "Day Keene" and Leonard Pruyn's World Without Women

On Bill Crider

Update on What If? Volume 3 and other Surinam Turtle Press publications

And about or quoting Dick Lupoff and his work:

The Compleat Ova Hamlet by Richard Lupoff (art by Trina Robbins, introduction by Philip "Willam Tenn" Klass)

All in Color for a Dime by Richard Lupoff (also features a review of an "Ed McBain" novel by Ed Gorman)

The Investigations of Avram Davidson, edited by Grania Davis and Richard Lupoff, and other work with Davis

Other citations of Richard Lupoff