Brian Moncrieff Lewis

(Did you mean Brian Lewis, the fan from Medway?)

(June 3, 1929 – December 4, 1978)

Brian Moncrieff Lewis was a British artist and fan active from the 1950s to the 1970s. His earliest work was in comics including The Eagle but he is likely best known in science fiction circles for providing interiors and over 80 covers for the UK prozines New Worlds, Science Fantasy, and Science Fiction Adventures, starting in 1954 and only stopping in 1962 when the magazines switched to photographic covers.

He later returned to comics and also worked in animation, allegedly including the film Yellow Submarine. This seems a somewhat uncertain point. Science Fiction Book Club News #1 asserts it but the SFE says it's unconfirmed and it's not mentioned in ISFDB. The Reluctant Famulus profile linked below references without attribution Lewis's recall of working in The Beatles's Apple Corps Ltd.

Lewis provided several covers for the BSFA's Vector and the programme book for Skycon, the 1978 Eastercon.

He was listed in Ron Bennett's Directory of Science Fiction Fandom for 1955 at an address in Preston, Lancashire, and then in 1957 at an address in London.

Links

• Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• Brian Moncrieff Lewis in Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• 'Brian Lewis: SF & Comic Artist' by Eric Barraclough in Reluctant Famulos #105 online at efanzines.com (PDF)

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Person

1929—1978

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