Apr 26
Alessandra Comments: This is one of those subtly wrong covers. What’s up with the faces? And looking closer, the anatomy. His eyes are oddly round and oddly placed, a little too close together and a little too skewed to our right. Her right eye (on our left) is too low, giving her an odd one-eyed (or in the right light, three-eyed) look. Not a cover that screams its wrongness, but still eye-watering when you look closely.
Published 1983
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Tagged with: Bantam Books • Barclay Shaw • damsel • dude • font problems • gibberish title • glow • jumpsuit • once you see it • portal to another world • Ralph Mylius • Warren Norwood
Nov 11
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Art Direction: Evil prophets go together with men wearing eyeliner like… Anyway that’s easy! Lets make any text on the cover like some sort of cryptic puzzle which will have to deciphered. What’s the book called? What’s the name the of author again? Ha! They’ll be stumped! The money will roll in!
Published Date Unknown
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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • gibberish title • magic • monks • robes • Star Books • three wise men • Unknown Artist Institute • W.W. Bloom • Wizaaaaaaaard!
May 14
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Stevyn Comments: I’m ashamed to say that I was the artist in this case. A terrible cover for what is possibly the worst fantasy book ever written.
And with such great lines in this book such as, ‘The effeminate albino pursed his thick lips in that certain way to suggest he was male, but homosexual.’
Read more about this on Stevyn’s website here: http://stevyncolgan.blogspot.com/2008/07/you-really-must-take-vista-be-vigil.html
Good Show Sir! Thank you for sending this in.
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Tagged with: Aaron Jones • cloaks • dude • gibberish title • Stephen Moryk Colgan • strange creature • WTF
Aug 27
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Right, we’re in a recession, we need a cover that sells! Hmm, all black cover? You, sir, are fired! We need exploding cities in the midst of being attacked. A woman in a yellow and black striped catsuit, no wait… an alien woman! She can be holding a dagger while she peers into the foreground, completely ignoring the chaos behind her. If that doesn’t sell I’ll jump right out that window.
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Tagged with: aliens • author in the comments • bladed weapons • casually walking away from an explosion • catsuit • clouds • daggers • damsel • DAW Books • Edward Willett • explosion • gibberish title • planets • space ships • Steve Stone
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