Oct 23
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: A tasteful way to cover up male nudity? I know what you mean… how about we cover up his nudity with a naked women on her knees, in front of his “blade!” What? How is that even remotely sexist!? Oh…. well… do it anyway.
Published 1969
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See also: Looters of Tharn
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Tagged with: ape people • ax-wielding • bladed weapons • cleavage • Cover My Ass • damsel • dude • epic conflict • hunkbutt • Jeffrey Lord (aka Manning Lee Stokes) • Macfadden-Bartell • muscles • once you see it • pointing • pole weapons • Richard Blade • shields • spear • starkers • sword • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Oct 17
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Bibliomancer’s Art Direction: I want a picture that will be timeless. Like a mash-up of Peter Max meets Chairman Mao. Art like that will never go out of style. Now give me another foot-long pill and leave me alone. I’ve got a lot of art-making to do!
Published 1970
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Tagged with: Ace Books • antennae • baldness • bighanditis • bumhead • dude • gun • Kim Whitesides • paging John Galliano • Philip K. Dick • proportional issues • suits you • wraparound cover • WTF
Oct 09
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Dead Stuff with Big Teeth Comments: Unable to nail Soapman to his chair, Throckmorton suspended him next to his brother in a tube of mineral oil.
Published 2003
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Tagged with: Baen Books • dude • Eric Flint • font problems • Keith Laumer • muscles • nonsensical shadows • perspective problems • proportional issues • Richard Martin • starkers • stasis tubes • statuesque
Oct 08
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Tom Noir Comments: With a sinking heart, Brad realized their skin-tight glam-rock outfits would not be an effective disguise in the forest.
Published 2007
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Tagged with: aliens • ant people • cyclops • damsel • David Drake • dinosaur • dude • font problems • forest • frickin laser beams • handguns • once you see it • shoulder pads • teleport • tights • Tor Books • Wayne Barlowe
Oct 07
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Tom Hering Comments: Chapter One, paragraph one – “Outside the bedroom window rain dripped steadily from the tall Douglas firs. Isobel Dempster did not have to raise the blinds and look out to know what kind of a day it was. It was wet. It was the first day of June, when the whole world should be bright and sunny, but not the Skagit Valley in the state of Washington. Here it was wet. It was wet here yesterday and would be wet tomorrow, and barring some miracle it would be wet next week too.”
Published 1975
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Tagged with: ax-wielding • bandito • BEHIND YOU! • bladed weapons • blunt weapons • bottle • damsel • dude • epic conflict • exposed brain • Gary Bradner • Good Show Sir • gun • handguns • jeans and a t-shirt • mallet • mighty moustache • nonsensical shadows • once you see it • rope • sombrero hat • space brain • stallone pose • sweaterworld • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF • Zebra Books
Oct 01
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Andrea Comments: I get that the artist was trying to convey the strangeness of this world, but she didn’t have to shove so many characters awkwardly together on the page. The guy sitting up on the bed is seriously going to dislocate his shoulder. And on the back cover, there’s the world’s world 80s hair metal outfit (fur legwarmers and matching vest, with bare chest and sandals!)
Published 1982, aka ‘Geta’
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • booties • bracers • damsel • Donald Kingsbury • dude • furs • Haircut 100 • muscles • once you see it • Rowena Morrill • tattoo you • Timescape Books • turbans • waistcoat • weird pecs • wraparound cover
Sep 27
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: It’ll be just like our D&D game we played last night… except John from Accounting can be the hunk attacking a skeleton… and Dianne the Receptionist can be the sword-wielding damsel in a cape!
Published 2000
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Tagged with: ax-wielding • bladed weapons • capes • damsel • dude • font problems • Gollancz Books • Jon Sullivan • once you see it • Orion Books • shiny • Simon R. Green • skeletons • skulls a-poppin' • sword
Sep 26
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Tom Noir Comments: The subset of Sir Walter Scott fans who also like Rollerball is probably about the size of that Roman soldier’s thong.
Published 1996
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Tagged with: Alasdair Gray • baldness • cleavage • computers • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • flag • Harvest Books • helmet • inadequate armor • insects • loincloth • male skirts • muscles • once you see it • ships • sky sleigh • space • space sheep • starkers • tattoo you • tidal wave • weird delts • WTF
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