Oct 14
MisterBOB’s Art Direction: Imagine if you could reach out and touch a bald lady face on your pc screen. Draw that!
Published 1984

MisterBOB’s Art Direction: Imagine if you could reach out and touch a bald lady face on your pc screen. Draw that!
Published 1984









(Average: 6.96 out of 10) Tagged with: Baen Books • Bryn Barnard • computers • damsel • font problems • Joseph H Delaney • Marc Stiegler
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October 14th, 2011 at 9:37 am
“We will always be together – however faaar it seeems!” No, wait, I can’t imagine anyone ever using their computer for that, it’s sheer science fiction.
October 14th, 2011 at 10:07 am
When the microwave goes ‘ping!’ it means your severed human head will be cooked right through. Enjoy!
October 14th, 2011 at 10:46 am
Ah if only he had waited 15 years when women will be your ‘best friend’ for money on computers.
Would have saved him a lot of coding!
October 14th, 2011 at 12:02 pm
If you could program yourself Sinead O’Connor and a clip-art heart, would you?
October 14th, 2011 at 12:19 pm
I’d program her some hair!
October 14th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Alternate blurb:
If you were afraid to reach out and touch real people… would you buy this book?
October 14th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
I don’t think he’s touching a lady-face. She seems to have her hand up to the screen also, so he’s really touching her lady-finger. =D
October 14th, 2011 at 6:03 pm
I just wasn’t impressed by the “Tron” reboot.
October 14th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Published one year before the “Weird Science” movie. Kelly Lebrock w/o hair?
October 14th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Reminds me of Lt. Ilia, from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Played by Persis Khambatta.
October 14th, 2011 at 7:22 pm
No! Don’t do it! On the Internet every woman is really just a dude!
October 14th, 2011 at 9:09 pm
Whoever she is, she’s wearing those plastic lips that came out of a Xmas cracker.
I think this cover is actually showing us the birth of the iPad: the very day when the late Steve Jobs reached out and touched his green-screened Amstrad PCW and said “I can do better than Alan Sugar. Just watch me.”
October 15th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Someone paid £3 for a second-hand copy of this book?
October 15th, 2011 at 8:02 pm
“If you could program yourself a best friend… would you?”
- In your electric dreams, buster!
October 18th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
“If you could program yourself Sinead O’Connor and a clip-art heart, would you?”
Made me chuckle….and nice follow-up @Tom Noir.