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: Evolution via '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)?

 

c)  See; From Tenniel's"The Walrus and the Carpenter" for Alice Through The Looking Glass to Wernher von Braun by Mahon to Astro-Eunuchs by HR Giger to Alien pilot by HR Giger ?

  

 

 

d) See : 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"? 

 

 

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

 

 

 

f) See: From the henu barque from the Egyptian book of the dead via Giger's "Deathbirth Machine II"(work 342) (1977) to "Pilot in Cockpit" (work 380) (1978) by HR Giger?

 

 

 

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