Click for full imageCarolyn Comments: You can probably analyze this better than I! I assume the artist just read the jacket blurb.
Published 1977
“Imagine: Gorilla-shaped bismuth junkies who stack their dead ancestors like cordwood in the living room; gentle souls who can touch with a touch or a thought. A throwback fiefdom on a planet where huge poisonous bats rule the night sky, where serpents the size of semi-trailers slither though the rotting jungle. A sarcastic mansized beetle that’s a Talmudic scholar and swears like a longshoreman. And claims to be immortal. All in a life’s work for Otto McGavin: Prime Operator for the TBII, undercover guardian of the rights of aliens and humans under the Confederacion.”
Mmm… uhh… seriously? That snake doesn’t look too happy.
Outstanding! Good Show Carolyn!
(Rating: 9.16 out of 10)
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July 26th, 2010 at 9:43 am
What’s up his legs… long on the top short at the bottom…
July 26th, 2010 at 9:46 am
@SI well, at least he has a snake’s shoulder to cry on…wait a minute!
July 26th, 2010 at 10:01 am
I want whatever he’s smoking
July 26th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Calling Dr Freud…
July 26th, 2010 at 10:39 am
@Phil Not just calling but paging, emailing, sending out a messenger pigeon.
Even the title and author is at an interesting angle.
July 26th, 2010 at 10:49 am
I have a theory the artist didn’t feel like painting hands & feet that day – hence the fin-like appendage and the strategically placed skull with the melting eye socket. And that snake might be VERY happy…..
July 26th, 2010 at 11:32 am
All My Design Lessons Forgot
July 26th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
He’s playing the Snakemonster Double Bass. It’s Jazz, my hombres, Jazz!
July 26th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
I like how “huge poisonous bats” somehow translates to “Butterfly-winged Pteranodon”.
July 26th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Large snake, pteranodon and skull- is this a poster for an avant-garde production of ‘Hamlet’?
July 26th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Jazz? No, medieval music: he’s playing a Serpent!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_%28instrument%29
July 26th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a leak!
July 27th, 2010 at 7:52 am
He’s not doing what you think to that snake – he’s just leaning against it in exhaustion. You would too, if you’d just passed a pointy skull that size.
Is the snake yawning or singing?
July 27th, 2010 at 8:21 am
If snakes could speak, that one would shout: “Lemme out of this cover, it’s an insult to a great writer!”
July 27th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Re: A.R Yngve’s last post
Agreed…
July 30th, 2010 at 4:07 am
So that’s what happened to the naked dude on the Led Zeppelin album cover after he lost his wings.
August 1st, 2010 at 4:41 am
All my sins remembered…especially that really embarrassing one with the snake.