Alien: "Pilot in Cockpit" (work 380) (1978) by HR Giger

 leading from

H R Giger's Art

and

The cover of The Inspector #2, October 1974    

 

 

 

a) Ridley Scott's early storyboard for the Space Jockey was the starting point for HR Giger

See: Alien: Early Ridleygram showing the sideview of the Space Jockey (1978) by Ridley Scott for Alien

 

 

b) See : Alien: Pilot in cockpit (work 380) (1978) by H.R Giger references panel from "The Pink Sphinx" from Pink Panther #4 (Published Jan 1972) showing the Pink Panther riding on a camel as a "ship of the desert"? 

 

 

c) See: Alien: Space Jockey references "Meanwhile, tribune Noxius Vapus arrives at the prefect's palace" from Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield?

 

 

 

d) See: Alien: Evolution via The Egyptian Book of the Dead 

 

 

 

 

e) See: References Giger's own earlier painting "Deathbirth Machine II" (work 342) (1977)? 

 

 

 

 

f) See: References the cover of Inspector #2 (October 1974)

 

 

 

 

 

g) See: Evolution via Portrait of James Tissot via Walrus and the Carpenter with empty oyster shells, via Behind Veronica's cloth?

 

Comparisons between the Alien Pilot in Cockpit (work 380) (1978) by HR Giger and 'Portrait of James Tissot 'by Edgar Degas, 'Walrus and the Carpenter with empty oyster shells' for Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass (1871) and 'Behind Veronica's Cloth' by Ernst Fuchs (1953)