La Guerre Infernale (Old VSF Pictures)

[Adam]

I've done a search on this forum and on yahoo but can't find any other covers as big as this one. Does anyone know where I could find any? There's a page with little thumbnails of the covers with what looks like steam tanks on but I can't find them any bigger. This one of Chasseurs Alpins riding bat machines has really wetted my appetite.

If anyone knows where I could find anymore on the internet I'd be very grateful.


The illustrations are by Albert Robida who did lots of VSF styles pictures:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Robida

Page with thumbnails:
http://tricotbd.free.fr/livres/ggg/pages/GuerreInfernale.html

Also found this:



Edit: Found a couple more covers on ebay, bit smaller though

[rob_alderman]

WOW.

Oh my, these need to be reprinted.

And in English!

[Adam]

I looked a bit harder:











I especially like this one with the highlanders.

These and more can be found here:

http://www.itsdeadlicious.com/2009/08/la-guerre-infernale-robida-giffard.html

[rob_alderman]

Wow.

Those are all stunning. According to the blog you found them on, they are a story of WW2, written before WW1 even happened! They were written in 1908.

I would love to actually hold these. I might save the pics and print them out. Stunning, simply stunning. Thankyou for this find, it will be most helpful.

I'm even having ideas for zeppelins as we speak!!! 

[joroas]

En bref : la seconde guerre mondiale écrite avant la première ; avec l'attaque et le siège de Londres par les allemands ! et le conflit entre japonais et américains !

How spooky is that?

[Lupus]

I'm even having ideas for zeppelins as we speak!!! 

Its like a mad scientist with a new chemistry set

[rob_alderman]

How spooky is that?

So spooky, I don't even understand!!! 

Its like a mad scientist with a new chemistry set

 

[joroas]

How spooky is that?

So spooky, I don't even understand!!! 

 

Germany is attacking London and there is a war between the Japanese and the USA. 

[rob_alderman]

Spooky stuff.

There was also a piece of artwork after WW1 about the treaty of Versaille, how it would fail and the children of those that fought in WW1 would have to sort it out.

Found it!

[Adam]

 

Germany is attacking London and there is a war between the Japanese and the USA. 

Aye, and on one cover Londoners are drowning where they took refuge underground, something that would later happen (though from a burst water main, not from a burst of the Thames):

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TnAcMqiBxug/Spa83pHJzqI/AAAAAAAASMc/kSB7UrYNR1Y/s1600-h/File0008.bmp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balham_Underground_station#World_War_II


Creepy really.

[Steve F]

Robida's work is gorgeous.  One of my most prized possessions is a copy of his book La guerre au vingtième siecle, but I haven't seen his art in colour before.  Great find!  Thanks for sharing.

[rob_alderman]

It oddly reminds me of some War of the Worlds artwork I have seen.

Would make a wonderful reprint. It really would, there's so many fine creators of things like this that have come and gone in the blink of the eye and it is truly atrocious. Just the other day, someone showed me some work by a practitioner of fantasy imagery and they were just stunning. In a totally alien way to what fantasy is now. Far superior and far more considered. If anyone has looked at Patrick Woodroffe's work, it is in a similar ilk. 

[Thunderchicken]

I love this stuff! Very inspirational and the sort of thing that got me into VSF in the first place.

[Adam]

The war correspondant (painted 1884)



Twentieth Century War (1883)



Twentieth Century Trans-Atlantic Balloon


More here:
http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Albert-Robida/Albert-Robida-oil-paintings.html

[rob_alderman]

Wow, good stuff. The land battle one would be easy enough to do I think.