{"id":18050,"date":"2026-02-02T06:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=18050"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:09:32","slug":"rip-bob-layzell-plus-john-ives-and-dan-greenburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2026\/02\/02\/rip-bob-layzell-plus-john-ives-and-dan-greenburg\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Bob Layzell plus John Ives and Dan Greenburg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sad to say we’ve lost yet another artist last Thursday. It was Bob Layzell, who painted covers for many publishers including PAN. Bob was born in Brighton, Sussex (04\/05\/1940 to 29\/01\/2026). I’ve picked a few of his covers of the shelf including ‘Farthest Star’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a>, ‘Approaching Oblivion’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> and ‘100 Years of Science Fiction’<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a> books 1 and 2. I had emailed Bob a while back to check the covers I had were his and he kindly replied to confirm they were and to say ‘The Farthest Star cover was the first I had published in 1976\u2032\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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I got the news about the passing of Roger and Cecil as mentioned last week from Brian Sanders when I emailed him about a cover he painted. The book was<\/span> ‘Fear’<\/span> <\/strong><\/em><\/a>by John Ives and Brian emailed back to say;<\/span> “I certainly do remember and can add a little info as the figure on the cover of FEAR is me. Lizzie took the reference picture for me. I can still remember some of the book\u2019s content as after the Suez invasion I was transferred into 45\u2019s Intelligence section and went to Libya for desert training. In \u2018Fear\u2019 there is a perfect description of how to produce water in desert conditions which rang bells for me as it was something we\u2019d been taught. At the time I thought the book would have made a good film – do read it.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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\"\"<\/a>Random writer this week is Dan Greenburg (20\/06\/1936 to 18\/12\/2023) an American writer, humorist, and journalist. He wrote 73 novels published in 20 languages in 24 countries of which PAN published four which you can see HERE<\/span><\/a>. ‘<\/span><\/span><\/strong>I Could Never Have Sex with Any Man Who Has So Little Regard for My Husband’<\/span><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a 1973 American\u00a0sex comedy film directed by Robert McCarty based on Greenburg’s novel ‘Chewsday’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sad to say we’ve lost yet another artist last Thursday. It was Bob Layzell, who painted covers for many publishers including PAN. Bob was born in Brighton, Sussex (04\/05\/1940 to 29\/01\/2026). I’ve picked a few of his covers of the shelf including ‘Farthest Star’, ‘Approaching Oblivion’ and ‘100 Years of Science Fiction’ books 1 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}