THE PICTURE ABOVE shows a linocut that Phoebe Gaughan found a few months ago while going through her husband’s papers. It turned out that the linocut illustrated the novelette “Death and Birth of the Angakok” by Hayden Howard. The story appeared in the April 1965 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine. She was also able to locate Jack’s sketchbook page that corresponded with the block’s design. It seems that Jack did this linocut as a design exercise (certainly the print from the block would not had reproduced too well on the cheap paper stock that Galaxy was using at the time) and he ultimately used pen and ink for the finished art. In January of 1965 Jack pulled a few proof prints off the block then moved on to his next illustration assignment. Forty-five years passed before Phoebe discovered the linocut and pulled the first edition from it. The print is now available from Nonstop Press.
(Photo: Phoebe Gaughan)