Bug-Eyed Monster
You may be looking for BEM (Bemusing Magazine), a UK comics zine.
| Synonyms: | B.E.M. |
| See also: | tentacles, Aliens in Fanworks, Little Green Men, aliens |
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Bug-Eyed Monster or BEM is a fannish term for an early science fiction trope wherein aliens tended to be "grotesque creatures with huge, oversized or compound eyes and a lust for women, blood and/or general destruction."[1]
Professional science fiction illustrators drew plenty of BEMs for sf magazines, and BEMs were also popular in sf films.[2] Modern media fan artists tend to be more interested in portraits of their BSOs than in imagining the grotesque, but there are always exceptions.
Examples in Fanart
a giant spider-creature takes an interest in naked BSO from the zine Han Solo, art by Z.P. Florian (1999)
from The Other Side of Paradise #7, artist is Gennie Summers (1987)
Chewbacca views a centerfold, from Imperium #4, artist is Wanda Lybarger (1994)
References
- ^ Wikipedia:Bug-eyed monster. (Accessed 3 October 2013)
- ^ See April 1949 Super Science Stories cover and Invasion of the Saucer-Men movie poster (1957).