Nov 05
Art Direction: Come on, the concept is so straight forward! Like hands growing other hands sorta like flowers, while one plays a tiny trumpet. What? No I went off my medication because it was making my eyes feel furry.
Published 1975
November 5th, 2010 at 10:21 am
It’s like Roy Castle’s fever dream! But how do they play it? Let’s give them a big hand for effort.
November 5th, 2010 at 11:12 am
The puns practically write themselves for this one, but please don’t let them get out of ha…
[16-TON WEIGHT DROPS ON SMART MOUTH]
November 5th, 2010 at 11:30 am
I hope Lloyd Biggle senior is proud of his boy.
November 5th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
@ A.R. Yngve
Hey now let’s not start pointing fingers…
November 5th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
The trumpet should be a violin.
November 5th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
TY Brendan for …digitizing…that cover.
November 5th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Watch out GullyFoyle you might get a knuckle sandwich.
Man I am terrible at puns… was that even a pun?
The other hands in the back must be rocking out! They’re punching the air!
November 5th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
The Amazon.Com reviews sound good.
http://www.amazon.com/Still-Small-Voice-Trumpets/dp/1587150522
Maybe that’s supposed to be a digital trumpet?
November 5th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
No, those ones represent the Loyalists.
November 5th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
Heh. That was in response to SI.
The trumpet represents Margaret Thatcher.
November 5th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
The artist seems to have misread the title. He has painted the still voice of SMALL TRUMPETS.
November 5th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
And he hasn’t painted the still! Since the book is (I assume) about distilling illegal hooch, that’s a major omission.
Still, he (she?) has done a good job otherwise. Let’s give him/her a big hand!
November 5th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
My first thought is that this planet must be where Thing from the Addams family came from.
November 6th, 2010 at 4:31 am
At first I wondered how it could play a trumpet, but I see that it has it well in hand. I bet it just nails the solo, as long as it doesn’t knuckle under.
November 8th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Gah!!!! Pun overload!!
Justin> The metaphor of MT as a trumpet sends shivers down my spine. Thanks! But yes I would enjoy seeing the ole Ulster red hand replaced with one of these! haha
November 8th, 2010 at 11:32 am
I didn’t even notice these were hands at first. I thought they were straight ripoffs of Triffids.
November 8th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Style makes me think of Partick Woodroffe:
http://www.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch:1&q=patrick+woodroffe&revid=353142628&sa=X&ei=EvzXTLelIMy0hAe-hNnLBQ&ved=0CCMQ1QIoAA&biw=1108&bih=647
November 8th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
I’m getting major I Sing The Body Electric cover flashbacks
August 8th, 2012 at 10:07 am
It’s a deleted scene from Yellow Submarine.
August 27th, 2015 at 3:22 am
We all ought to learn to walk on our hands.
January 15th, 2017 at 3:38 am
I’ve installed the extension that replaces photos of D. Trump with photos of kittens.* (Because I can’t stay off the intarwebs for the next 4-8 years.)
It twigged to this one, a false positive.
When I clicked through to the actual cover, I was really glad to have gotten the wee cats instead.
IIRC, this was a pretty good book — I had it in a bland cover which didn’t scare people.
*Make America Kittens again. Also blocks Farage, Le Pen, Wilders.