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Click for full imagePatrick Comments: I think the eyes are the most troubling thing here!
Published 1988
(Average: 8.50 out of 10)
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Patrick Comments: I think the eyes are the most troubling thing here!
Published 1988
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August 19th, 2014 at 9:16 am
It is a disturbing version of bottoxed Brigitte Bardot, with her head put on someone else’s body in haste!
August 19th, 2014 at 9:57 am
“Allow me to guide you to the faerie nail bar – they even do hooves.”
August 19th, 2014 at 9:59 am
I say, Mr Tumnus, you should cut your nails more often. And your hooves could do with a trim.
August 19th, 2014 at 10:03 am
Damn, THX 1138 based his/her comment on the same observation as me. Therefore I will have a second go:
OK, I’ll TRY to draw the woman full-face, but I’ll warn you now: I can’t do eyes.
August 19th, 2014 at 12:03 pm
Ah, the scenic vistas of the Fabric Mountains!
August 19th, 2014 at 12:14 pm
If the faun stands ‘upright’ he’ll be facing the floor. Is there a flamingo in his family tree?
August 19th, 2014 at 3:31 pm
Her head must be like a helium filled balloon. It will shrink back to normal size when she descends to a lower altitude.
August 19th, 2014 at 3:35 pm
East of Lafferty by R.A. Laughter
August 19th, 2014 at 3:56 pm
‘… the eyes are the most troubling thing here!’
A close second for me is her neck, and the entire vicinity. Third would be the hind quarters of the faun. Fourth would be the choice of colors. Fifth would be her hair. Sixth would be the positioning of the two characters, seventh would be her clothes, eighth would be the overall layout of the cover,ninth would be the idea that in 1988 someone was paid to do this for the cover of an eestablished author, and tenth would be that I would spend the time thinking up ten things that bothered me and create a list of them.
August 19th, 2014 at 4:15 pm
“With your horns… and my hair… this hat is useless!”
August 19th, 2014 at 5:34 pm
It also appears that her belt has a mouth on it. It appears as though there’s a smiling face on her torso.
August 19th, 2014 at 11:13 pm
The cover art for Eat of Slaughter wasn’t in any better taste.
August 20th, 2014 at 7:42 am
“North of Giggle”
“West of Chuckle”
“South of Snigger”
“North by Northwest of Guffaw”
August 20th, 2014 at 10:20 am
It’s weird, Morrigan (who published this) were a small press who published good quality hardbacks, either original novels (e.g. a couple of Lafferty’s) or those previously only available in paperback (e.g. James P Blaylock, KW Jeter) … yet when it came to the dustjackets they seemed to lose interest, though this one was the low point.
The same artist also did the cover for the other Lafferty published by Morrigan, “Sepents Teeth”: he seems much happier painting snakes than people: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/8/8e/SRPNTSGGHJ1987.jpg
August 21st, 2014 at 8:38 am
Editor: “I have a problem, Billy. There’s this author who writes better than I do, WAY better, and I just can’t stand it. I want YOU to draw the cover for his new book. Are you up to it?”
Artist: “Yes, Dad.”
August 21st, 2014 at 3:39 pm
@Phil: If I were a woman I’d have called myself LUH 3417, which is a girl’s name, obviously.
September 2nd, 2014 at 10:48 am
Sheesh, you could do better with stock art!
September 4th, 2014 at 11:13 pm
Fun fact: With a strategically placed ‘s’ this title becomes ‘East of Slaughter’. WAY more interesting!!
September 5th, 2014 at 1:26 am
Fun fact: with a strategically placed ‘joke’ Tom Noir becomes ‘copycat’.
😉
September 5th, 2014 at 7:06 pm
Dammit DSWBT, get out of my brain!!!
September 7th, 2014 at 4:44 pm
That does look like a match made in… Well, a perfect match.
@Jeff Vader: Those books would have different authors.
August 10th, 2015 at 6:46 pm
This book is mis-titled. In my opinion the laughter is RIGHT HERE.
September 19th, 2017 at 9:59 pm
Looking at what she is placing her left hand on, I initially thought this was porn.
September 20th, 2017 at 1:20 am
@Tor: this being the Internet, that’s a safe assumption. Welcome to the site!
March 5th, 2019 at 8:31 am
Just found an interview with Lafferty on line (http://www.sanduskyregister.com/story/201501160010) where he mentions this as one of only 2 of his covers that he really hated. You can see why.
March 5th, 2019 at 5:04 pm
Don’t you hate it when you have to deal with too much satyr butt crack?
Pull up those fur pants, sir! What are you, a satyr or a plumber?