Flash Gordon, spaceman hero of the science-fiction comic strip Flash Gordon, created in 1934 by illustrator Alex Raymond and writer Don Moore as a Sunday feature for King Features Syndicate.
In addition to working with bands like Interpol for the project, we've teamed up with J. Spaceman of beloved UK-based "space rock" band Spiritualized and UK filmmaker Jonathan Glazer on a major new interactive installation that was unveiled on the Coachella festival grounds.
In addition to working with bands like Interpol for the project, we've teamed up with J. Spaceman of beloved UK-based "space rock" band Spiritualized and UK filmmaker Jonathan Glazer on a major new interactive installation that will be unveiled on the Coachella festival grounds.
Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar.
The cover art, by Emsh, Earle K. Bergey, and Walter Popp, was stereotypical, with Emsh's cover for the February 1953 issue including what sf historian Wendy Bousfield describes as the three stereotypes of sf art: "the spaceman, the voluptuous blonde, and the threatening bug-eyed monster".
The Flash, the Atom and Adam Strange, "Earth's First Spaceman," were emblematic of the faith in science and can-do optimism of the period.
$23. Robert Olen Butler uses the word "spaceman" to describe the hero of his new novel, and one of his characters uses the term "googly-eyed alien," but I'd call him an extraterrestrial.
Figures loom out of a low-lit, smoke-wreathed gloom: a dancer, a frantic percussionist, a couple of middle-aged men in wheelchairs, and, most intriguingly, a spaceman wandering the streets of Kinshasa.
Mirrorball matches eastern-sounding strings to twanging, reverb-heavy guitar, while Thought I Was a Spaceman, the kind of delicate Bert Jansch-inspired fingerpicked guitar found on Coxon's 2009 album The Spinning Top, rubs up against electronic noises and rhythms created on Albarn's iPad, as they were on Gorillaz's last album, The Fall.
I am a weightless spaceman watching the transactions of an alien world below me.
