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Click for full imageMisterBob’s Art Direction: Its 1968 – can you make up a new font?
Published 1968
(Average: 8.17 out of 10)
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MisterBob’s Art Direction: Its 1968 – can you make up a new font?
Published 1968
(Average: 8.17 out of 10)Loading...
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June 8th, 2012 at 10:08 am
A trace of memory…. a lot of green sick… shouldn’t have drunk that entire bottle of creme de menthe last night.
June 8th, 2012 at 11:54 am
Oh no, I’ve spilled green ink all over the page. Never mind, I’ll turn it into a cover for the sci-fi book I’ve been commissioned to do. It will only be on the racks for a few weeks, and will soon be forgotten. It’s not like my work will be preserved for eternity in a gallery, or on some kind of future global computer system.
June 8th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
‘I remember traces about last night … but not where I left my eyes.’
June 8th, 2012 at 1:03 pm
Friday! And I’m staring and green goop
Did the artist just lose it?
Is he laughing at us?
On GoodShowSir the worst covers
Collect on the page
And they’re always a bust
Memory! There’s a trace on the cover
I can make out the font, dear,
Through the red and the green
I don’t doubt, this time I rue the haplessness
Stop my memory, don’t be mean!
June 8th, 2012 at 1:07 pm
That’s a really bad hair day.
June 8th, 2012 at 2:10 pm
On the one hand, I hate how publishers seem to think that every science fiction novel needs to have stars or a space ship on the front, just to make sure we know it’s SCI-FI!!!
On the other hand, there are covers like this that give you NO CLUE what genre the book is, what it is about, and why you should not hurl it in the trash immediately.
What I’m saying is, this cover needs stars and a spaceship.
June 8th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Ooh, I loved this book. That cover is absolutely horrible and bears no relation to the story whatsoever. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want to read the story it does bear relation to.
I once thought of submitting the cover that’s in my collection (inherited from my father), but it’s actually a pretty nice one, for the times:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gojira2012/3164114342/
June 8th, 2012 at 5:28 pm
Wow. Something about this cover tells me this book isn’t from the Bolo series.
June 8th, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Whoa! It’s as if someone took the old “…on acid!” line too literally and painted while using LSD:
“I want you to make a cover that looks like MAD Magazine… on acid!“
June 9th, 2012 at 5:09 am
Hey man, I used a lowercase e… I doubt anyone will notice.
June 9th, 2012 at 12:24 pm
@A.R. Yngve: Not to knock the old Mad Magazine covers. In my opinion they were pretty well done.
This is … sad.
June 12th, 2012 at 2:37 am
If it weren’t for the publishers logo I’d have said this was one for the “self-published with art by author’s kids” pile.
June 12th, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Come on, this is 1968, Sergeant Pepper’s was released a year ago and the hippy movement is in full flower. This is a crass attempt at trippy bandwagon-jumping.
A solid miss, too. (Remember Hit or Miss, anyone? I’m really dating myself now)
January 27th, 2017 at 1:37 pm
It’s fortunate that Zach Snyder decided to keep Rorschach’s original character design.
January 27th, 2017 at 1:46 pm
Murun Buchstansangur?
January 27th, 2017 at 1:52 pm
Publisher: Shit, what drug were you on when you did this?
“Artist’: All of them, man. All of them.
(Yes, I know, that’s exactley what they want you to believe but I’m going with it anyway.)
January 27th, 2017 at 3:21 pm
I’m getting flashbacks, to the Puffin Club newsletter c.1974
https://tygertale.com/2015/01/02/puffin-annual-number-one/
January 27th, 2017 at 3:37 pm
What better way to enjoy Flashback Friday than with an actual acid flashback!
January 27th, 2017 at 3:49 pm
Just haunted by that lower case “e.” I think it’s a secret code. Or maybe that shit’s just kicking in . . . .
January 27th, 2017 at 3:55 pm
@Tat: that’s as may be. I’d give an arm and a leg [1] for the Puffin Club newsletter, an not a shilling for unknown artist’s blotches!
[1]I’d rather give someone else’s, tho.
January 27th, 2017 at 4:40 pm
A wax statue . . . a melting wax statue, in a horrible red wig.
Impersonating a Beatle.
January 27th, 2017 at 4:41 pm
Perhaps the lowercase “e” is a hint at a break. A Trace of Me, Mory.
January 27th, 2017 at 5:12 pm
@Yoss—oh wow that is so kozmik! I see the patterns, and the colors . . . mostly sickly olive green and blotchy red and the melting hair and, uh-oh, I think I’m having a bummer . . . .
January 27th, 2017 at 10:30 pm
IIRC, Laumer was rawther the opposite of a hippie, so I doubt this cover pleased him.
@Tat: that Puffin Annual looks like good fun.
January 27th, 2017 at 11:24 pm
An acid trip depicted by someone who has never dropped acid.
January 28th, 2017 at 5:22 am
Carrying on where DSWBT left off —
MeMORY,
Just a trace on the hworrkgack…
(stagehand with bucket enters)
(audience exeunt)