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Star Wars, Alien, Back to the Future designer Ron Cobb dies – Sydney Morning Herald
The California-born cartoonist and science-fiction conceptual artist lived in Sydney.
But it is the designs Cobb contributed to a slew of science-fiction films for which he will most be remembered, beginning with John Carpenters space tragi-comedy Dark Star (1974).
In 1976, Cobb contributed sketches for several aliens for the famous cantina scene in Star Wars (his ambulatory rainforest plant great sense of humour; best joke tellers in the galaxy his sketch notes say sadly didnt make the cut).
Ron Cobb’s design for an alien from the famous cantina scene in the first Star Wars mo…
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