Jan 16
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Guthrie Comments: The story inside features no naked women, no earthquakes and no desert. I have no idea how the artist or editor thought the cover would be any good at all.
Published 1974
January 16th, 2014 at 10:49 am
Women always think they’re heavy when they’re not.
January 16th, 2014 at 11:25 am
“Ah, waking up in the sun… geez, my goddam neck!”
January 16th, 2014 at 11:48 am
She: ‘I read 204 pages of this…and they made me god of abandoned parched wastelands? WTF?’
January 16th, 2014 at 11:54 am
Whatever song she’s dancing to must be a good one.
January 16th, 2014 at 12:47 pm
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer…
Oh wait; wrong story.
January 16th, 2014 at 12:51 pm
she appears to be in pain. considering that she seems to have hit the ground hard enough to shatter it, it’s rather understandable. at least her silicon implants didn’t burst. that will be one less surgical procedure she’ll have to endure.
January 16th, 2014 at 12:54 pm
Warning: when jumping from great heights never land on your knees. Your knees will be all right, but you’ll end up breaking your neck.
Unknown Artist™ has his boob technique mastered. But faces are so hard to draw.
January 16th, 2014 at 1:36 pm
Bah, these are sci-fi covers. Faces aren’t important!
January 16th, 2014 at 2:04 pm
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January 16th, 2014 at 2:15 pm
“I went to Unknown Artist Instituteâ„¢ you know! I got one cover, well… self published, my book of sci-fi poetry. It didn’t sell well… sorry? Of course you have make that a large meal.”
January 16th, 2014 at 2:47 pm
Frank Herbert: “Ok its done and i have to tell you, it might be my best work!”
Publisher: “Great Franky, great. Now to add the cover.”
(game show lights go off, blaring alarms and 2 las vegas show girls push a wheel of fortune type device into the room)
Frank Herbert: “What the……”
Publisher: “Ok Franky, SPIN THE WHEEL OF CRAPPY COVERS!!”
Frank Herbert: “I dont think………”
Publisher: “SPIN THE F+$#IN WHEEL FRANKY BABY!”
Clack – clack – clack – clack – clack. Wheel finally stops on “awesome dark boobies. No face, dancing girl erupting from the ground”
Frank Herbert: “You got to be kidding me………….”
Publisher: “Cheer up Franky baby, could be worse look what was next on the wheel.”
Frank looks down to the next spoke on the wheel of crappy covers and it reads; lion man in a banana hammock gut punching a naked white guy while standing in a sea of fire with a snake in the foreground asking whats up?!.
January 16th, 2014 at 3:31 pm
If she’d fallen from slightly higher, or in softer ground, it could have made a more iconic cover http://www.boldaslove.us/2009/12/31/miracle-for-a-maggot-fundraiser-for-funkadelic-graphic-artist-pedro-bell/ Iconic, but not as lucrative as a soul sistah walking naked over a creme brulee and finding the weak spot, alas.
But Unknown Artist (AKA Ray Feibush) did such a bang-up job here that only three years later they replaced this with a Bruce Pennington cover that is just about the most Bruce Penningtonish thing in the entire history of Bruce Penningtonness http://www.flickr.com/photos/pulpcrush/sets/72157629689967864/detail/
January 16th, 2014 at 5:12 pm
Just a semuta user grooving to the music.
January 16th, 2014 at 5:27 pm
I bet if you turned the book over there’d be a wicked butt crack to contemplate . . . .
If only the Unknown Artist Instituteâ„¢ included lower legs and feet in its curriculum. This cover artist clearly gave it his “all” on the torso, and did a workmanlike job on the nimbus of hair, but just collapsed in despair when he got to the calf region.
January 16th, 2014 at 7:53 pm
As a graduate of Unknown Artist Institute ™ I got…published…in major markets. My art has been…appreciated. I am…[the] envy of my colleagues…who…wish to follow [in] my [footsteps]. I am under…the gun…all the time…[t]o do my best. I don’t need the money anymore. I have my dignity. Thank you.
January 16th, 2014 at 8:22 pm
“Frank Herbert Winner of Hugo and Nebula Awards.”
So the guy who won the “Frank Herbert” (whatever that may be) and who comes from Hugo and Nebula has decided to award… what exactly?
January 17th, 2014 at 8:46 pm
@Bibliomancer – aren’t Boobs and Tits the same thing? Oh wait, did you notice a little bird in the cover?
January 21st, 2014 at 10:48 am
Many thanks for the correction, Tat.