Carolyn 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!
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.
October 21st, 2013 at 11:28 pm
The inscription ‘TBII’ makes me wonder whether this is an episode of ‘Thunderbirds’ I’ve repressed. You know, the one with the pterodactyl, the giant pearl held in the air by fart-power and the snake that needed rescuing.
February 26th, 2014 at 6:31 pm
After Otto got really depressed, he just sat around playing with his snake all day.
February 17th, 2016 at 10:52 am
I always thought the story of an apple sounded ridiculous…
June 10th, 2022 at 11:55 am
Laocoon poopins-a-skull.
June 10th, 2022 at 2:27 pm
If you forget the name of this book and want to find it online, DO NOT Google for “naked man riding a snake.”
Just saying.
June 10th, 2022 at 9:29 pm
I remember my sins, and they’re all ridiculous.
June 10th, 2022 at 10:12 pm
All of my sins add up to much, MUCH less weirdness and badness as this.
I’m wondering what Paul Stinson’s sins were! Not reading the book, or maybe even the blurb might have been one.
June 11th, 2022 at 2:39 am
“We’ve been told we gotta use some ‘art’ from Chris the boss’s son. Find something that isn’t too embarrassing, this book won’t get much notice.”