I had yet another weird dream. In it I saw this reall oddball of a xeno' stuck in a lab somewhere, it's face pressed against a huge glass window looking in at some human military types as they talked amongst themselves.

The tank was filled with weird blue liquid and ambient lights. In the dream you could see the (dare I say, CUTE?) barbles it had on it's chin. (Daawwwwww... ^.^) And it only had four fingers instead of the classic six. And two extra odd little tube things on it's back.

It was such a striking image, I just had to draw it. Four hours of inking, twenty minutes of photoshop to add the color (I was lazy), and this is what I ended up with.

Xenomorphs ©20th Century Fox Film Corperation*,
Nacronom © Giger*,
"Todd", and artwork ©2003 Tina Leyk, All rights reserved.

*
-Giger owns the rights to the Necronom paintings that the design for the Alien was loosely based on.

20th Century Fox Film Corperation owns, without restriction, all legal rights to the Alien franchise, and anyone who wants to license anything related has to go through them. Dark Horse Comics has licensed limited publishing rights (i.e. comics, books) from Fox. Other companies have licensed the rights to toys, games, etc. But permission to do any of that comes from Fox.

Whatever rights Giger himself has to the Alien are those which he has by way of contract from Fox. IIRC he is allowed to create and sell certain types of Alien related artwork outside of the normal channels without recourse to 20th Century Fox. However, he does not own the copyrights to the franchise.