Sep 13
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Ian’s Art Direction: Did you see the cover that came back from the artist? It’s full of crotches! Crotches! I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay that idiot to fix it. See if you can get an intern in here to cover them up with oblong stickers or smudges or something. Make it look natural.
Published 1973
(Average: 7.43 out of 10)
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September 13th, 2011 at 10:14 am
The editor gave the artist a sound thrashing:
“I said paint a cover WITH a drunk on it… not paint it WHEN a drunk!”
“I’m sho shorry…Mein Fueh-*hic* -rer!
September 13th, 2011 at 11:42 am
Is this a heartfelt representation of beer goggles?
September 13th, 2011 at 11:59 am
Makes you wonder what the cover would look like if the drunkard was a woman.
September 13th, 2011 at 12:38 pm
“Easily Pohl’s most satisfactory effort.” Ouch.
September 13th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
@maxbenign – you’re right. That’s not the best of choice to put on there.
When I walk home drunk I don’t see naked women. Are you supposed to see naked women? Sometimes I get home and I want there to be a naked women. But mostly I get a slap around the face and, “How dare you stay out this late!” from the talking unicorn that gets into my house.
September 13th, 2011 at 1:07 pm
There are sheep bursting forth from those naked women. Sheep. Someone has some really strange sexual fantasies.
September 13th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
I kind of like John Berkey’s cover… I dunno kind of encapsulate what it’s like to walk while drunk…. SO yeah, I echo the “heartfelt representation of beer goggle” statement.
September 13th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
The pull quote sounds like something your professor marks on your paper, not a blurb for a novel!
September 13th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Its like a critique issued by an English teacher, ‘satisfactory’. I dont drink so I never see any naked women. Hey wait a minute…..
September 13th, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Now it’s time for the best quote to put on a book challenge:
“I’d keep this one in my bathroom right next to a Calvin and Hobbes omnibus.”
September 13th, 2011 at 5:12 pm
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Drunkards_walk_ret.jpg
The first edition cover is better.
September 13th, 2011 at 6:37 pm
“Forget all these normal naked women. I’m gonna choose the little one on the ground that looks like a Barbie doll.”
September 13th, 2011 at 6:39 pm
I think the Admins need to develop a smaller sheep for the smaller naked women in books.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:18 am
About the first edition cover:
“So biting funny”?
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:50 am
The nudes all look like standard art school model poses. I have a closetful of paintings just like them. It’s like an art student stumbling past a row of class exercises leaned against a paint-spattered wall while he reaches for one of those little manikin posing figures.
Clearly the artist is having a flashback to art school.