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Mike Weller (Canadian Football)
Michael John Weller (South London, 1946) is a British underground comics artist, political writer, cartoonist, activist and album-cover designer. Weller designed the sleeve for the United States release of David Bowie's ''The Man Who Sold the World (album), The Man Who Sold the World'' LP (Mercury, 1970), re-released (EMI CD 1999 and ''Metrobolist'' LP, CD, streaming formats, Parlophone, 2020). As "Captain Stelling" Weller wrote and drew ''The Firm'' (cOZmic Comics, 1972) - an early British artist's publication inspired by American underground comic book innovations. In 1973, a page by "Stelling" entitled 'Missile Crisis' was made part of Michel Choquette's comic book The Someday Funnies. In the 1970s Weller was published by Hunt Emerson for Birmingham Arts Lab press. He followed "Willie D" (Andrew Marr) as featured cartoonist on Chainsaw punk zine (1980–84). Michael Weller enjoyed a parallel career in the 1980s and 1990s as political writer, cartoonist, activist of the Left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Opera Book 2000
Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime. The concept of space is considered to be of fundamental importance to an understanding of the physical universe. However, disagreement continues between philosophers over whether it is itself an entity, a relationship between entities, or part of a conceptual framework. Debates concerning the nature, essence and the mode of existence of space date back to antiquity; namely, to treatises like the ''Timaeus'' of Plato, or Socrates in his reflections on what the Greeks called ''khôra'' (i.e. "space"), or in the ''Physics'' of Aristotle (Book IV, Delta) in the definition of ''topos'' (i.e. place), or in the later "geometrical conception of place" as "space ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
