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Click for larger imageJoachim Comments: It’s one of these covers where words simply fail to describe the horrors at play — the garish colors cavorting among mutated humanoid shapes (Malcolm McDowell?) and what can only be a doe-eyed, disembodied, (potentially) cuddly dragon spirit monkey…
Published 1986
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September 21st, 2011 at 10:41 am
It rather reminds me of E.T. the Extraterrestrial, perhaps crossed with a tarsier monkey. And then spray-painted neon.
Poor Blue Lady Liberty (that’s the torch in her hand, right?) ran out of shading on her legs.
September 21st, 2011 at 11:17 am
Rod, Jane and Freddy (not to mention Zippy) had really fallen on hard times.
September 21st, 2011 at 11:38 am
HAND! What is her right hand DOING? Why is it so PUNY? Aaah…(runs screaming into the night)
September 21st, 2011 at 11:57 am
Does she know there are disembodied heads just behind her? What do they want? I guess they want us to read the book to find out…
September 21st, 2011 at 12:02 pm
I’ve seen many the women falling backwards off a skyscraper, especially in the recenter cooler times, but this takes the biscuit!
September 21st, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Woman in Blue Tutu: “I am woman — watch me tear this male chauvinist alien apart with my bare hands! AARRGHH!!”
Alien: “YEOOOWW!!”
September 21st, 2011 at 12:42 pm
This is exactly how i pictured cyberspace to be reading neuromancer. Only without this lot.
September 21st, 2011 at 2:16 pm
I just realized that the dragon spirit monkey and the blueish thing is emanating from her crouch…. I guess it’s FIRE and ICE or something.
September 21st, 2011 at 2:31 pm
On the upside… it’s refreshing to see a difference from the usual, stale SF cliches (spaceship, alien, etc.)
On the downside… it’s less refreshing to see a cover which will only appeal to the blind.
September 21st, 2011 at 2:44 pm
I think the moral of this cover is: always wear sunscreen.
September 21st, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Not only is ET on this cover, I think that’s his grandmother there on the back left.
September 21st, 2011 at 2:56 pm
So who is the author of “JOSEPHINE SAXTON QUEEN OF THE STATES”?
September 21st, 2011 at 3:04 pm
Tom Noir: Josephine Saxton is the author of QUEEN OF THE STATES…
September 21st, 2011 at 6:07 pm
So she has the powers of materializing a Lady Liberty torch in her right hand and a giant red shrimp in her left? Squirrel Girl has met her match.
September 21st, 2011 at 9:07 pm
The original ending to Ghostbusters 2 before the drastic re-edit.
September 22nd, 2011 at 3:35 am
I’m really disturbed by how all these spirits and monsters seem to be emanating form her crotch.
September 23rd, 2011 at 6:34 pm
The Women’s Press? Is that why she’s drawn so flat?
September 28th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
Believe it or not, the head on the left is ripped off from a classic Renaissance drawing of grotesque faces which also was used as a model for a few Renaissance paintings.
September 29th, 2011 at 8:15 am
Neat swipe from Renaissance art there… but it would’ve been better to USE THE WHOLE RENAISSANCE PAINTING instead.
October 5th, 2011 at 8:18 pm
I saw this cover and immediately thought “Gill Sans typeface”.
Does that make me a bad person?
October 31st, 2011 at 6:08 pm
This is obviously Sponge Bob’s bastard child with ET’s wife
October 20th, 2017 at 5:12 am
It was 80s Britain: the idea was to have covers that look as unlike DAW, Boris Vallejo, Peter A Jones et al because they were aiming at a different market.
Fine, in theory…
October 20th, 2017 at 5:54 am
The one-woman celebration of both the U.S. Fourth of July and Chinese New Year draws a crowd of just two people: a Haitian voodoo priestess and that one guy who always smells something unpleasant.
October 20th, 2017 at 8:32 am
So, that ain’t Lady Liberty, which means the blue-garbed woman has committed some sort of Federal felony by stealing the torch.
Was there a bet on at Unknown Artist Institute as to who could come up with the most hideous and off-putting cover for this book?
Also: Hey blue lady, BEHIND YOU!
October 20th, 2017 at 9:08 am
I was going to post an “Editorial Meeting” joke about the warped, self-defeating reasoning that led to this cover… but it came off as so crass and mean (and realistic) that I just didn’t have the nerve.
October 20th, 2017 at 11:48 am
According to Google: “This book is about Magdalen, a woman who is on her own planet, out to lunch and on her own trip.” So, yea, in this case, no misrepresentation. (Although, personally, I prefer covers to be a little less literal.)
October 20th, 2017 at 1:24 pm
Children’s dance recitals are rather dull, it’s true, but these attempts to “spice them up” don’t sit well with me.
October 20th, 2017 at 1:54 pm
Believe it or not, the artist Melinda Gebbie toned it down for this cover.
Check her out:
http://www.melindagebbie.com
October 20th, 2017 at 2:23 pm
“Hey, moron, what’s with the glasses? Can’t you see the nuanced and rarified artistic theme of this cover is ‘google-eyes’? Be careful Gebbie doesn’t see you or she’ll put you in a BDSM drawing!”
October 20th, 2017 at 3:31 pm
@b’mancer 28 I like her sketches. Don’t like the paintings
October 20th, 2017 at 3:51 pm
@ JuanPaul – Agreed. She’s got that Zap Comix vibe.
October 20th, 2017 at 4:02 pm
@B’Mance, JP—note the R. Crumb cameo (the guy named “Bob”) in the drawing titled “Underground Heaven.”
October 20th, 2017 at 4:29 pm
This cover gives me a Stephen King vibe.
October 21st, 2017 at 12:10 am
@B’mancer 28: That stuff’s cool in its place. A mass-market paperback is not its place.