Hailing from Austria, pulp novel and comic book artist Frank R. Paul (born Rudolf Franz Paul in 1884), only attended school until the eighth-grade. At the time, affluent members of Austria received formal education beyond that, but Paul’s family were not a part of that world. So, when Paul turned 14, he got his first job working in a paper mill which he kept until the age of 17 when he left Austria to avoid... Known today as the “Father of Science Fiction Art” Paul’s vivid... (http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_far_out_work_of_frank_r._paul_the_father_of_science_fiction_art) Frank Rudolph Paul (April 18, 1884 – June 29, 1963); American illustrator of pulp magazines in the science fiction field. A discovery of editor Hugo Gernsback, Paul was influential in defining the look of both cover art and interior illustrations in the nascent science fiction pulps of the 1920s.... Paul's work is characterized by dramatic compositions (often involving enormous machines, robots or spaceships), bright or even garish colors, and a limited ability to depict human faces, especially the female ones. His early architectural training is also evident in his work. ...In many ways, Frank R. Paul's achievements and influence on the field through the ages cannot be overestimated. ...[His] visions of robots, spaceships, and aliens were presented to an America wherein most people did not even own a telephone. Indeed, they were the first science fiction images seen by Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Forrest J Ackerman and others... ....Paul can be credited with the first color painting of a space station (August 1929, Science Wonder Stories)... His cover for the Nov. 1929 Science Wonder Stories was an early, if not the earliest, depiction of a flying saucer. This painting appeared almost 2 decades before the sightings of mysterious flying objects by Kenneth Arnold.... He was also the cover artist of Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939)... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_R._Paul) undefined

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