by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.)
The Clone
Berkley Medallion, 1965
Illustration: Hoot (1927-1979)
AKA “Hoot V. Z.,” “Hoot,” and “Hoot von Zitzwitz” but actually Hubertus Octavio von Zittewitz (say that three times fast!). Zittewitz’s work adorned many a science fiction cover during the paperback golden age (though apparently just in the 1960s) often on books by utterly forgettable authors—but the masters as well, including Philip K. Dick, Edgar Pangborn, Robert Heinlein, James Blish, and Fritz Lieber, though his collages were often regrettably placed in uninspired designs by uninspired staff artists (although the real crime title, The Sexual Psychopath, Lancer 1967, for an example was an exception) like this one (“A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL.” Really? Ya don’t say!). A pity, as a student and practitioner of collage I find Hoot’s body of work (I’ve collected a few of them) interesting and unusual and am eager to find and learn more.
Image: Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design
Zittewitz finished his career as a fine arts teacher at Hofstra and painted landscapes of Long Island (NY).
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