Ray Nelson was a Science Fiction author and cartoonist, well known for his art work from the golden age of Science Fiction fandom in the 1940s and ’50s, up until the present day.

In addition to having written numerous novels and short stories, Ray is the inventor of the propeller beanie, and his short story “8 O’clock in the Morning” was made into the paranoid cult classic “They Live”, directed by John Carpenter.

He passed away in 2022