Flying aircraft carriers show up in steampunk, dieselpunk and atompunk fiction so often, we can consider them a genre trope. From Castle Wulfenbach in Girl Genius to the British aircraft carriers in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow to the helicarriers of S.H.I.E.L.D., here is a look at these behemoths of the sky.
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Tom McGrath writes he decided to become an artist when he heard they all drink too much absinthe, cut their own ears off and only make money after they’re dead.
Let’s hope he does better than that! We’re certainly fond of his steampunk work.
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Dim (short for Dimitris) Martin is a talented artist from Greece. I first found his work when he did one of the covers for the excellent dieselpunk comic series Skies of Fire (our review here). His portfolio includes many more dieselpunk works, spanning the spectrum from decopunk to noir to Weird War.
Here’s a taste.
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Jeremiah Humphries’ art includes a few steam- and dieselpunk pieces, including a drawing of Nemo’s Nautilus and a railway gun that seems inspired by Nazi Germany’s Landkreuzer.
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Egle “Cathy” Zioma is a Lithuanian artist who has done a few steampunk works, including the cover illustration for the first steampunk novel published in the Baltic state: Andrius Tapinas’ Hour of the Wolf.
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Myke Amend has been on the steampunk scene from early on. He even illustrated a couple of covers of the old Gatehouse Gazette. His work features airships, mad science and surreal portraits.
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“Donaguirre” is a German artist whose lovely Art Deco-inspired posters typically implore citizens of the fictional Eldorado to buy war bonds to fund a three-way Cold War with Teutonian Empire in Europe and the Empire of Nikko across the Pacific.
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Min Nguen is a diverse artist whose work spans the clock-, steam- and dieselpunk spectrum. I selected all of his airships for you, but if you’re fond of science-fiction artwork as well, you should definitively check out his DeviantArt profile.
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Vadim Voitekhovitch’s art is proof that everything looks better with airships. It’s hard to pick just a few examples from his DeviantArt profile; all his paintings are gorgeous. Check it out!
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No artist has done more to define the dieselpunk aesthetic than Stefan Prohaczka. All the genre’s influences come together in his work: deco, film noir, midcentury pulp, retro-futurism, totalitarian propaganda. Nobody combines it like Stefan and still make it feel coherent and natural.
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