In their original form, my Revisiting Cinefex articles – on the first 40 issues of the classic visual effects magazine – were just plain text, with no images except for the cover of the issue under discussion. Once I’d concluded my retrospective odyssey, I broke the articles into headed sections (one for each movie) and set myself the task of drawing a little icon to illustrate each.
Although I made a good start, other jobs kept getting in the way. In the end I took the easy option and dropped in movie poster images instead. The drawings vanished into a folder, and only saw the light of day again when I stumbled over them again last week.
While it’s unlikely I’ll ever finish this particular job, it seems a shame to have these little sketches languishing in the dark. So here they are. How many movies can you identify?
Graham Edwards 
Graham, I think you should open a T-shirt store. I’d be first in line for a Spinner, a THX policeman, and a chubby mothership.
Great idea, Joe. Also, “chubby mothership” is now my favourite phrase ever!
I guess I’m old enough to tell you most of them!
About as old as me then, Alex 😉
If not for its Cinefex article, I wouldn’t remember PHASE IV at all.
Great fun, Graham. Thanks for sharing.
Just revisited your “Revisiting Cinefex” blogs to check out the new poster additions. Very cool. And the words aren’t half-bad, either — essential reading for Cinefex fans.
Thanks, Don. My little stack of illustrations is just one more addition to an ever-growing pile of projects marked “I’ll get to these one day!”