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Joachim Comments: A monkey woman/man (?) or is that a tail… Regardless, two sheep are required.
Published 1962
(Average: 8.49 out of 10)
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Joachim Comments: A monkey woman/man (?) or is that a tail… Regardless, two sheep are required.
Published 1962
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February 22nd, 2013 at 9:19 am
RT @GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: Jizzle http://t.co/ghVRO1Ek6r
February 22nd, 2013 at 10:12 am
Well, you can’t entirely fault them for fraudulent advertising: the stories include a circus monkey called Jizzle and a Chinese dragon in Wales. But those are two distinct stories, and no team-up episode took place. I don’t doubt that Wyndham could have had one in his bottom-drawer from his early days when supply outstripped demand. This specimen comes from early 60s Britain, when just his name in big letters would sell a book, even in the pages were blank.
I’d want to know why Giselle’s holding her own tail and the dragon’s – maybe her forearms are cold because someone shaved them.
February 22nd, 2013 at 10:16 am
That dragon can’t believe his eyes. Jizzle, you know, like a cross between sizzle and erm… Best not to think about it.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:28 am
Everybody poops!!! I can’t un-see it!
February 22nd, 2013 at 12:15 pm
Fo rizzle?!?
February 22nd, 2013 at 12:27 pm
@SI
Now you made me see it too!!
February 22nd, 2013 at 1:28 pm
Looks like the transsexual Grinch is flashing his tats at some weird mashup of a Mardi Gras, Gay Pride, Chinese New Year parade.
I’m overjizzled. I think I need to take a shower.
February 22nd, 2013 at 2:00 pm
The Universe feels so much more cold and lonesome today…good show sir, jolly good show…
February 22nd, 2013 at 3:30 pm
One word comes to mind with this cover, FABULOUS!!!!
February 22nd, 2013 at 4:27 pm
This is another one of those “it’s funnier because it doesn’t all fit on the screen on my netbook” books. (When I first opened the page, only the letters JIZZ fitted on the screen.)
Loving the double-sheep placement; looks like a woolly bra.
Those were the days, when you could get a monkey and a dragon for just 2/6.
February 22nd, 2013 at 6:13 pm
First glance impression,” Hmmm, kids book, very ‘Dr. Seussy’. Wonder if my nephew would..Holy Crap! The monkey’s got tits! What the?”
February 22nd, 2013 at 7:06 pm
1962…furry porn cover….with that title….how many people went to prison over this?
February 23rd, 2013 at 3:32 am
And the dragon’s blowing smoke up the monkey’s whatever. Truly something you wouldn’t want to be seen reading today, for all the other people’s minds in the gutter and thinking your kink is Not OK.
February 23rd, 2013 at 5:51 am
This is the kind of book you have to read on a Kindle on an airplane. Nobody sees what you’re reading.
February 24th, 2013 at 3:27 pm
Oh, Language, never stop changing the meanings of specific sound-chains. It’s always hilarious when you do.
February 26th, 2013 at 3:59 am
Why, why, WHY did I click the “unsheeped image” link???
March 17th, 2013 at 8:31 pm
Yes, I remember the Jizzle ape character (Nowadays, a port-manteau word from “jizz” and “drizzle”, imagine what that can be…). Wasn’t it 1974 that Britain went… decimal? Pounds, shillings, pence and… farthings? Kydos to Wyndham, he wrote good stuff.
March 18th, 2013 at 11:45 am
@Georgios: it was February 15th 1971. I’d just learned to count and work out how many 3d Captain Scarlet bubble-gum packs I could get were I to be given half a crown and they made me do it all over again with 50p.
Farthings went in 1964, although they could be found between floorboards for a generation to come.
December 21st, 2013 at 5:49 pm
The next time Dave Langford makes another complaint about how SF ain’t gettin’ no respect from journalists, show him this cover and ask “You want them to show respect for THIS?”
Then Dave will cease complaining. For good.
March 26th, 2015 at 9:12 pm
If I came across this in a bookshop I’d….. no, wait..
April 3rd, 2017 at 7:30 am
I dared search for the slang term (and I do mean dared, seeing as how it’s perfectly legal for my ISP to sell my search history), and it had that meaning since the mid-19th century.
Possibly Mr. W was taking the p (.42p nowadays, not allowing for inflation).
April 5th, 2019 at 5:11 am
The face is at right-angle to the head. The face is looking toward the dragon’s back left foot. The head is pointed towards the J in ‘Joachim Comments’
April 5th, 2019 at 5:17 am
On first glance I thought the monkey had been impaled on the dragon’s tail. On second glance I wished it had been.
April 5th, 2019 at 5:52 am
I’m rather unsure who this cover was meant to appeal to: normally SF covers are going for teenage boys, the intellectually pretentious, and those who don’t care that the cover art really isn’t trying but this? Monkey fetishists? Menagerie enthusiasts? Masqueraders? It has a sort of “wacky adult fantasy” vibe to it which really doesn’t say “Wyndham” to me, but perhaps he’s different as a short story writer.
April 5th, 2019 at 1:13 pm
Last night’s forecast was accurate. It said today would be cloudy with a chance of jizzle.
April 5th, 2019 at 1:44 pm
Takashi Miike does Kong v Godzilla.
April 5th, 2019 at 1:44 pm
I think “gibberish title” is my favorite tag of all time. Scrolling through those entries makes your head swoon, as though it were jizzling in your brain.