#alan foster

Archie & Friends: Winter Wonderland, cover by Jeff Shultz

Noted "after Rockwell", but while Rockwell drew a few kids on a sledge, this illo reminds me more specifically of the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, January 7, 1928, by Alan Foster.

Damn 🥺

~Alien: Covenant~

...Walter regarded the brother who was not a brother, but who had become something else. “Who wrote ‘Ozymandias’?”

“Byron,” David replied without hesitation.

Walter shook his head slowly. “Shelley.”

For a long moment David stared back at his counterpart. Inside his head, neurological connections fired millions of times a second. When they ceased, it was with the realization of something extraordinary.

He had been wrong.

He had made… a mistake.

It was not possible, yet internal cerebral crosschecking revealed that was indeed the case. He had voiced an error in knowledge. Correcting it had required the input of someone else. It was unprecedented. Wasn’t it? Or had it been preceded by other computational errors? With no one else to point them out in the course of the past ten years, what other anomalies had been brought to the fore, only to be accepted by him as fact?

None , he told himself with assurance. This was a singular aberration, an isolated incident that will not be repeated . Unless… this new observation itself was a deviation.

He was not used to feeling uncomfortable. Especially not with himself. A flicker of uncertainty appeared in his eyes. But it passed.

Walter was less forgiving. “When one note is off, it is caught up by the entire orchestra, which quickly finds itself out of tune. It eventually destroys the whole symphony, David.”

Does anyone know anything about this painting or the artist??