This digital painting by Daniel Loxton is the cover illustration for the current issue of Junior Skeptic (Daniel’s story “Bat-People On the Moon!,” bound inside Skeptic Vol. 20, No. 3). Telling the tale of the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, the story does indeed feature bat-people, beaver-people, blue unicorns, and other bizarre creatures that a famous media hoax once claimed to thrive upon the surface of the Moon.

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Junior Skeptic 56 cover illustration by Daniel Loxton. (Click to enlarge.)