May 23
YES! It’s not only a bank holiday on Monday but the site is working! Woo! That means we can finally do another Honourable Mentions!
Thanks to all of you who constantly checked the site for over a month to see if it was working again! I missed all your comments, though oddly I actually got some work done. Anyway, I’m back to my normal pace now! Till the site breaks again…
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Scott W’s Art Direction: Ok, I need me a Ben Franklin, some lecherous 18th century dudes copping feels (or having their feels copped) by busty harlots, and oh yeah, can you possibly have Mr. Hundred Dollar Bill ride in on a cardboard lightning bolt with a pleasantly startled expression on his mug?
Published 1980
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Matt Comments: It wasn’t the airplanes. It was chain smoking that killed the beast.
Published 1977
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Ian R Comments: Do you accept old pulp sci-fi magazine covers? I hope you use them, if only because of that… thing on the woman’s neck/shoulder. It looks quite uncomfortable.
Published between 1955 & 1958
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Tagged with: ape • Arthur C. Clarke • bird hairdo • bracers • cigar • cleavage • damsel • Donald Zochert • dude • electricity • fire • font problems • frickin laser beams • Fritz Leiber • goblet • gun • Harlan Ellison • helicopters • Honourable Mentions • lightning • long haired men • megaphone • monkeys • once you see it • Penguin Science Fiction • pointing • Richard Wilson • space ships • Star Books • suggestive • suits you • tunnels • utility belt • Walter Wager • WTF
Feb 19
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Bibliomancer’s Art Direction: Sorry Mr. Burroughs but your first Mars book didn’t sell many copies in our Southern bookstores. Perhaps you need a more menacing villain. Our new cover artist has some fresh ideas.
Published 1952
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • daggers • dude • Edgar Rice Burroughs • font problems • Frank E. Schoonover • gun • headband • long haired men • male skirts • Methuen Books • racism • sword • tiara
Dec 12
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Tom Noir Comments: Balzan, when your B.O. starts knocking out dragons, it’s time to take a bath. And I don’t mean by licking yourself.
Published 1975
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Tagged with: balls • cat people • dino-mites • dinosaur • dragon • dude • font problems • Gerard F. Conway • headband • long haired men • male skirts • muscles • once you see it • Pyramid Books • Tar-sham • Unknown Artist Institute • Wallace Moore • white number three • wings
Aug 16
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: No seriously… four different colours of font will completely work! Especially if we add blue arching electricity!
Published 1998
Many thanks to Paul D for sending this in!
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • BEHIND YOU! • Brom • dude • electricity • fire • long haired men • magic • metropolitan apocalypse • mushroom cloud • sky-eyes • Terry Brooks
Aug 09
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DPN Comments: It’s a game – Find the five odd honours depicted on this book cover.
Published 2011
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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • bladed weapons • daggers • dude • Jane Lindskold • long haired men • monkeys • rope • Sam Weber • starkers • strange creature • Tor Books
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