Art by Josh Kirby
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Ronald Kirby was born in 1928, gaining the nickname "Josh" at Liverpool City School of Art where colleagues likened his work to that of the great painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. The nickname stuck and, from that time forwards, few people ever called him by his original name. Graduating after six years, his first job was painting portraits of film stars for an art studio producing film advertising posters for the London Underground. Around 1955, he began to produce artwork for bookcovers ranging from westerns and crime novels to non-fiction as well as painting magazine covers for science fiction magazines.