West Magazine Cover, Inside Is The First Story From Bradbury's Martian Chronicles In Bande Dessines /comic

Happy Birthday, Ray Bradbury!

August 22, 1920

“I’ll make a sound that’s so alone that no one can miss it, that whoever hears it will weep in their souls, and hearths will seem warmer, and being inside will seem better to all who hear it in the distant towns.”

The Fog Horn, Ray Bradbury

“I’ll hold on to the world tight some day. I’ve got one finger on it now; that’s a beginning.”

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

"Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me."

Ray Bradbury

“‘Why is it,’ he said, one time, at the subway entrance, 'I feel I’ve known you so many years?’ 'Because I like you,’ she said, 'and I don’t want anything from you.’”

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Black & white illustrations by Moebius‬. Reference for some of these: doorofperception.com

“The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive”, ink on paper, 2021. Dedicated to the mystical Ray Bradbury. Happy birthday to me

"To think that thought could live that long! A million years, perhaps, all these thoughts of death and disorder and conquest, lingering in the innocent but poisonous air of the planet, waiting for a real man to give them a channel through which they might issue again in all their senseless virulence."

Asleep in Armageddon, Ray Bradbury