On this day, February 16, 1925, Ed (Edmund Alexander) Emshwiller was born in Lansing, Michigan. Emsh studied at The University of Michigan, the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and at the Art Students League of New York. He created cover illustrations and story illustrations for both science fiction and for the pulps. In the 1960s Emsh pursued in interest in film with a Ford Foundation grant and eventually he taught at the California Institute of Arts.