May 17
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Mangraa’s Art Direction: OK, the main character’s a hot chick, so slap a Barbie head on a soldier’s body, that’ll work. Make this cover look like the end of a Michael Bay sci-fi clusterf***! I want not one, but TWO ships blasting away at her, the entire city burning, maybe throw in a lava spout just to be safe. I want NO EMPTY COVER SPACE!
Published 2004
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Tagged with: Baen Books • damsel • David Mattingly • explosion • font problems • frickin laser beams • gun • Michael Z. Williamson • once you see it • proportional issues • space ships
Sep 05
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Joachim Comments: Space Olympics look exactly like regular Olympics except in cartoon and a space ship poking up in the background…
Published 1967
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Tagged with: A.M. Lightner • dude • fire • muscles • Norton Books • proportional issues • space • space ships
Jul 25
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Joachim’s Art Direction: For our story about ALIEN talking space bears let’s mix it with some Earth myth — you know, Goldilocks and the Three Bears– and since it’s for boys, a SWORD and a HUGE glass of beer (bear beer?)…
Published 1983
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Tagged with: Ace Books • anthropomorphism • bear • bear people • bladed weapons • books on the covers of books • candles • Gordon R. Dickson • handheld beverage container of Germanic origin (tankard) • jeans and a t-shirt • once you see it • proportional issues • rodents • strange creature • sword • Tom Kidd
Jul 21
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Adam Comments: Backstage at an Alice Cooper concert.
Published 1980
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Tagged with: DAW Books • Don Maitz • dude • evil • ghosts • mullet • proportional issues • puffy shirt • skeletons • Tanith Lee
Mar 29
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Cathal’s Art Direction: It’s quite simple. A flaming-winged, bikini-clad woman with a sun for a head, rising out of a lopsided cauldron. And an amazon with a flaming arrow. See if you can make the amazon lopsided too, maybe give her two left legs… Looking good!
Published 1992
Many thanks to Cathal!
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Tagged with: archery weapons • bikini • bracers • cauldron • cleavage • damsel • fire • headband • longbow • New Falcon Press • proportional issues • Robert Anton Wilson • sun • sunhead • Unknown Artist Institute • Wayne Saalman • wings • WTF
Mar 01
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Matt Comments: All randomness aside, it’s the quality of the drawing that really stands out here.
Published 1997
Many thanks to Matt!
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Tagged with: Baen Books • baldness • damsel • David Lee Anderson • dude • explosions • font problems • once you see it • perspective problems • proportional issues • shiny • shuriken of approval • Spider Robinson • WTF
Mar 10
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Holy crap. We need something to distract from that bright silver font we’re using. So, how about a guy with an eye patch posing with weapons and a women doing the very same thing. Put a moon in the background, and by background I mean most of the cover.
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Tagged with: ax-wielding • BEHIND YOU! • black number one • bladed weapons • cloaks • daggers • damsel • dude • eyepatch • font problems • Hawk & Fisher series • Jon Sullivan • moon • Orion Books • proportional issues • shiny oh so shiny • Simon R. Green • space • sword • waistcoat • WTF
Oct 27
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Let’s have a man in a male skirt, or, say, a leather armour of sorts, stretching into the sky. We’ll have his companion lancing out with his hand just towards his crotch… Wait! This is Sci Fi? Lucky you told me. Uh, have them fighting aliens but keep the rest the same.
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Tagged with: aliens • gun • male skirts • once you see it • planets • proportional issues • R.M. Meluch • Romas Kukalis • sword • tentacles • Tour of the Merrimack series
Oct 08
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WELLL! How about Lois sitting on a rocking chair right next to a lovely log fire with a couple of cats curled up nicely beside her. To amplify the warmness we’ll have three people in space-age uniforms standing right best her, one of them holding a laser rifle. And for the finishing touch, put a mustache and bandana in there too.
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Tagged with: Baen Books • Cats! • Darrell K. Sweet • fire • gun • John Helfers • Lillian Stewart Carl • Lois McMaster Bujold • mighty moustache • once you see it • proportional issues • puffy shirt • rifle • shuriken of approval • Stalin • strange creature
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