Jan 17
Click for full imageGood Show Sir’s Art Direction: Like a day at the office… but with monsters… mushrooms… and a gun!
Published 1964
Many thanks to Erin!
(Average: 4.81 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Like a day at the office… but with monsters… mushrooms… and a gun!
Published 1964
Many thanks to Erin!
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January 17th, 2014 at 9:54 am
That must be quite an introduction.
January 17th, 2014 at 10:12 am
Every one a fungi to be with.
January 17th, 2014 at 11:50 am
John Wyndham was the pseudonym of John Beynon Harris!
It’s like saying “Richard Bachman Introduces Stephen King” or “Paul French Introduces Isaac Asimov” or “James Tiptree Jr Introduces Alice Sheldon.”
Weird.
January 17th, 2014 at 11:51 am
“Intruders! Intruders! Surface People! Here in the GOP Campaign HQ! Seize them!”
January 17th, 2014 at 12:05 pm
This is why Mormons don’t allow separate sexes to go out proselytizing together!
January 17th, 2014 at 12:12 pm
@A.R.Yngve (#3). Exactly. I really hope he doesn’t bother with any false modesty in this introduction.
January 17th, 2014 at 12:52 pm
Worst Skyrim mod I’ve ever seen!
January 17th, 2014 at 1:11 pm
It says it is a Frank Frazetta but it is obviously a forgery. Frazetta never painted a cover with a woman wearing so much clothing.
January 17th, 2014 at 1:39 pm
The two little guys in the back, the pointing one under the toadstool cap and the one he’s looking at, are having an interesting exchange:
“Borf, look, it’s secret people!”
“Wait a minute, I thought we were the secret people, Dorf.”
“That damn Wyndham, he never gets his introductions straight.”
“Well, let’s just eat more ‘shrooms.”
“Cool, dude.”
January 17th, 2014 at 1:43 pm
Full Title:
John Wyndham Introduces the Secret People to His Fiance, At Gunpoint
January 17th, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Alternate cover for this “classic”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TheSecretPeople.jpg
January 17th, 2014 at 2:08 pm
And another:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/06/the-secret-people/
It’s a classic all right!
January 17th, 2014 at 2:16 pm
“Let me introduce a new rising star, the phenomenally talented John Beynon Harris, a giant among men, the new Dante Alighieri, an artist whose feet H.G.Wells isn’t worthy to kiss…”
;-P
January 17th, 2014 at 3:41 pm
C’mon Frazetta. You go through all that artisty time and trouble to get the wrinkled clothing just right but cop out by not putting the woman in high heels?
A Luger, not a .45 or a Webley? Nazi bastard.
January 17th, 2014 at 3:51 pm
1. Rip off ‘The Coming Race’ by Bulwer Lytton, replacing Vril with mushrooms.
2 ????
3. Profit.
Which is why Frazetta doesn’t draw people in their underwear this time.
January 17th, 2014 at 5:28 pm
It’s like that one Star Trek: TNG episode where Data’s brain is taken over by a dying scientist, who then gives an overwrought eulogy at his own funeral:
“To know him, was to love him. And to love him, was to know him…
Those who knew him, loved him, while those who did not know him, loved him from afar!”
January 17th, 2014 at 8:49 pm
Mushrooms? This book looks like a prelude to this other book:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2013/12/the-right-hand-of-dextra/
January 19th, 2014 at 2:55 am
Well, the people are not going to stay secret much longer with John Wyndham introducing them. Come to think of it, it’s hard to keep people a secret in the first place when the underground cavern they live in is glaringly lit for some reason.
Is it just me, or is the man standing in a really strange way? Rough on the wrists to fire a gun at that angle.
January 19th, 2014 at 12:51 pm
To give him credit, it can’t be easy groping that girl while simultaneously firing at mushroom people.
January 19th, 2014 at 5:36 pm
@HB: He seems about to vomit.
Her dress is made of cling film.
They fight secret people! 😀
January 21st, 2014 at 7:44 pm
@Dead Stuff: ….people who don’t know that they’re secret….