One of the legends of my youth has passed ... Ron Cobb, who worked on and influenced Star Wars, Alien and Aliens, Conan the Barbarian, The Last Starfighter, Robot Jox, the Abyss, and Back to the Future, has passed away at the age of 83.
Many will be familiar with his contributions to sci-fi films:
But he was also an incisive cartoonist; many too political to post here, so I'll go with this one
News link here, with more illustrations of his genius:
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/09/ron-cobb-the-design-genius-behind-aliens-and-back-to-the-future-has-died/Now to hope he & Gerry Anderson can sit down together and work on stuff in Heaven.
