Good Show Sir

Nov 01

Cyril’s Art Direction: It’s French? What better than a couple of naked broads?
Published 1968

(Average: 6.91 out of 10)

Tagged with: Alain Dorémieux • anthropomorphism • Bantam Books • Boris Vian • cat people • Catherine Cliff • Charles Henneberg • Claude Veillot • Claude-François Cheinisse • cleavage • Damon Knight • damsel • flying heads • Gérard Klein • Henri Damonti • Pierre Mille • space ships • Suzanne Malaval • Unknown Artist Institute • Uproarious! • wings • WTF

Oct 10

Welcome to the Monkey House

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I'm not actually the old horrid man you've fallen in love with Sharon... I'm a ninja... Click for full image

Kim Comments: Steve Strange meets Rumpelstiltskin.
Published 1972

(Average: 8.54 out of 10)

Tagged with: damsel • dude • I'm melting! • Kurt Vonnegut Jr • Panther Books • perspective problems • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF

Oct 08

Ghost Story

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Ghost boob!!! Ghost boob!!! Click for full UNLEWISED image

Nina’s Art Direction: Draw me the story of a ghost…of a woman…in her pants, with a cat, and John Lennon. In a wooden cabin, flying through the sky. Yes, draw THAT ghost story.
Published 1985 (maybe)

(Average: 7.64 out of 10)

Tagged with: damsel • devil's dumplings • ghosts • Hill House Publishing • Peter Straub • space sheep • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF

Sep 13

New Writings in SF 23

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Meet my pet dog Justin... his favourite game is stabbing... Click for full image

Kim Comments: The wolf is only dangerous when he escapes from his carer.
Published 1975

(Average: 8.58 out of 10)

Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Barrington J. Bayley • bird people • bladed weapons • Brian Aldiss • Brian W. Aldiss • Charles Partington • Corgi Books • daggers • David Garnett • dude • E.C. Tubb • Grahame Leman • Keith Roberts • Kenneth Bulmer • Michael Stall • miniature man • mountains • New Writings In SF series • once you see it • portal to another world • snow and ice • strange creature • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute • wolf people

Sep 10

Assassination Anxiety

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That depressing moment when you realise you have the power to control a single large insect... Click for full image

Lauren’s Art Direction: I want explosions! And glowing auras! And giant lizards in cloaks! And some hot kids who go to the gym on a regular basis! Oh, and throw in a scorpion, there’s a sale on the stock photo site.
Published 2011

(Average: 8.63 out of 10)

Tagged with: Barry K. Nelson • damsel • dude • electricity • font problems • glow • magic • monsters • Penumbra Publishing • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute

Sep 05

Spectrum IV

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LSD is one hell of a drug... Click for full image

D Plover Comments: Having looked at this often, I realise that the most startling thing about this cover is not the anxious bird man, the three arsed lady or the giant foot, but the super-neon numeral 4 that’s blasting out of the cover!
Published 1967

(Average: 8.83 out of 10)

Tagged with: Alan Danzig • Anthony Boucher • anthropomorphism • C M Kornbluth • C.S. Lewis • Christopher Anvil • Cordwainer Smith • Damon Knight • font problems • Fritz Leiber • giant • giant feet • Hal Clement • Howard Fast • John Brunner • John Jakes • John Wyndham • Kingsley Amis • monsters • muscles • Panther Books • people with animals for heads • rainbow • Robert Conquest • Ron Goulart • Sir Mix-A-Lot • Unknown Artist Institute • Wayland Young • WTF

Aug 31

B.E.A.S.T.

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No... don't install windows on me... NOOOOOO! Click for full image

Don Comments: Thank you for calling Tech Support. If your computer is drooling, press 1. If you are the computer and you’re being harassed by a fat guy with curly hair, press 2.
Published 1967

(Average: 7.28 out of 10)

Tagged with: Ballantine Books • Charles Eric Maine • computers • font problems • monsters • once you see it • rainbow • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF

Aug 30

The Sanctuary of the Braves II

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Le requin Fonzie! Click for full image

Bruno’s Art Direction:
Setting – barren Mars landscape, red clouds.
Foreground – grinning shark in regal purple robes.
Background – Minotaur-ish creature with spear hauling vaguely human shape.
Perfect!
Published 2009

(Average: 8.53 out of 10)

Tagged with: Amos Daragon Series • anthropomorphism • Bryan Perro • Good Show Sir • horns • minotaur • Perro Books • shark people • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF

Aug 28

The Best of Fritz Leiber

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Here is the last picture of our ship... afterwards the beast licked it genitals and spent the next day lazying around the house. Click for full image

Kim Comments: Big space cat. Check that.
Published 1974

(Average: 6.69 out of 10)

Tagged with: cat people • font problems • Fritz Leiber • giant • Good Show Sir • planets • space • space ships • Sphere Books • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF

Aug 24

Honourable Mentions 11

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Another long weekend to celebrate the UK’s closing of banks! That can only mean one thing here at Good Show Sir… Honourable Mentions! Today we have a nice selection of franchise books that would be otherwise excluded by our iron forged rules.

Hope you enjoy these, I’ve even thrown in a special something at the end. Enjoy your long weekend if you get it and remember, books rule! Support your local bookery.

Screw this... I'm off to where my jacket isn't ripped! Click for full image