Sep 09
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Huge naked man flying through a vast landscape while an English businessman on a flying circle points out his mistakes with a cane. Have his manhood really impressive and big, you know like the type that make women faint… oh yeah, guess we can’t. Well, draw it anyway and cover it up with a star about that award he got. They’ll never know…
Thanks so much to Chris R!
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Tagged with: baldness • beard-wielding • cane • flying • once you see it • Panther Books • Patrick Woodroffe • Philip José Farmer • Riverworld series • shuriken of approval • starkers • top hat
Jan 23
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Bibliomancer Comments: And after only a few dozen sessions on the E-meter you will so far exceed normal human ability that you can eat a turkey drumstick wearing a bear suit and not feel stupid. Honest!
Published 1989
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Tagged with: bear • bearsuit • Bridge Publications • font problems • Henning Benndorf • L. Ron Hubbard • person in a bearsuit sitting onstage eating a turkey drumstick • WTF
Oct 05
Marmontoast Comments: As an online repository of truly dreadful sci-fi covers grows larger, the probability of seeing a rocket with Hitler’s face approaches 1 – Godwin’s Law of ghastly art direction.
Published 1980
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Tagged with: DAW Books • evil • Josh Kirby • nazi • planets • Ron Goulart • space • space ships • spaceships with faces • WTF
Nov 16
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Alessandra’s Art Direction:It’s short fiction by some of the best, most respected science fiction authors in the field. So I want… A Viking with a bottom for a face! Riding the world’s most exhausted-looking dinosaur horse! With its tongue hanging out! Through a Dali-esque landscape out of the Old West! And give the Viking kind of … Samurai armor!
Published 1976
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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • beast-riding • Bob Fowke • dude • Eric Frank Russell • FaceBoob.com • Frederik Pohl • Fredric Brown • Good Show Sir • horns • Isaac Asimov • J.G. Ballard • J.T. McIntosh • Jack Finney • Kurt Vonnegut • mountains • Penguin Science Fiction • polymastia • strange creature • Theodore Sturgeon • Tom Boardman • waistcoat • wilderness • WTF
Apr 12
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Whitney’s Art Direction: Oh, under HEAVEN’S Bridge. I thought you said something else…
Published 1982
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Tagged with: Ace Books • aliens • damsel • Don Punchatz • dude • glowing eyes • Ian Watson • Michael Bishop • WTF
Mar 07
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Mr Cliftopher Comments: I can only guess that the only available artist was a 5 year old with some brand new crayons.
Published 1967
aka The Stars My Destination
Many thanks to the Cliftopher!
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Tagged with: Alan Aldridge • Alfred Bester • anthropomorphism • bow-tie • cat people • dude • font problems • Penguin Science Fiction • strange creature • Ting! • WTF
Nov 20
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Rusty’s Art Direction: Lovecraft, huh? In that case, of course we’ll have to slap a clarinetist on the cover. But that’s not very striking, is it? So give him more fingersyeahhe’s a hardcore monster clarinetist. Yeahand knuckleslots of knuckles. Put in more knuckles, just stuff those hands full of knuckles. Make them have more knuckles than fingers! Yeah, yeah, that’s it. And his body and neck, even his lips! MORE KNUCKLES! MORE KNUCKLES! MORE MORE MORE!!!……oh yeeeaaaaaaah…..that there is beauty!
Published 2009
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Tagged with: Barnes & Noble Books • evil • H.P. Lovecraft • Jeffrey Weinstock • knuckles on knuckles • monsters • music • WTF • Zdzislaw Beksinski
Apr 16
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Scott B’s Art Direction: Flesh lattice of exponential identical startled heads!
Published 1971
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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • BEHIND YOU! • dude • John Holmes • recursive cover • T.L. Sherred • WTF
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