Jan 23
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Art Direction: We all know the one thing vampires suffer from. Bighanditis! What do you mean that isn’t a thing? Of course it’s a thing, a vampire thing! Look it says right here in the book of ‘Your Pay Check’! Now, just draw some kid, in a cloak, looking like he should be in a broadway musical. And make his hands BIG!
Published 1985
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Tagged with: bighanditis • cloaks • Futura Publications • glow • moon • S. P. Somtow • Unknown Artist Institute • vampires
Jan 20
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Andrew’s Art Direction: Okay, so here’s my idea. Fonts. This is a terribly confusing trilogy of books and we want the readers to know it. So I want no less than 2 font types and 4 font sizes. The artwork? Well it technically falls under sci-fi, so make sure there is a star-scape on there. People will like that. Then slap on just enough plot material to make the readers confused about what they are picking up. I smell an epic win with this one!
Published 1998
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Tagged with: dolphin • eye-yi-yi • masonic symbols • MJF Books • Robert Anton Wilson • Robert Shea • shuriken of approval • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Jan 18
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Scott’s Art Direction: I was drinking fairly heavily when I read, “The E.S.P. Worm” but I’m pretty sure it was about an estranged pair of anthropomorphic sticks of chalk, plus a bespectacled penis, I mean “worm”, lassoing the Earth with its magic rainbow powers. So put that on the cover!
Published 1970
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Tagged with: columns with faces • Paperback Library • Piers Anthony • planets • rainbow • Robert E. Margroff • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Dec 21
Well it has come to that time of year again when we at Good Show Sir need to take a break to steal Christmas presents from children, eat an insane amount of other peoples food and of course, get stinking drunk and rant about book covers!
Not to worry though, we’ll be back first thing in the new year with a round up of the best of 2011’s covers!
Here we have some fantastic Hungarian covers sent in by Gabor and River, about 9 months ago! I appologise for keeping them hidden for so long but here they are, all six of them!
Have a great holiday! And again thanks to everyone who visits the site and all the specials ones who leave comments which brighten our days with witty banter!
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Tagged with: aliens • Arthur C. Clarke • cleavage • computers • damsel • dude • font problems • frickin laser beams • Good Show Sir • gun • Mark Willson • MEGA POST • monsters • muscles • planets • robots • shoulder pads • space • space ships • space suit • Steven Nicholas Moses • strange artifact • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • Ursula K. Le Guin • William Gibson • WTF
Dec 19
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Art Direction: Wave… WAVE!?! Well there you go my boy, we have our answer right there. Let’s put a huge wave on there with a lighthouse and a helicopter to try and show some size perspective. I’m sure it will be all fine. And it’s day time so lens flare the hell out of that lighthouse. They run during the day right?
Published 2010
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Tagged with: font problems • helicopters • lens flare • lighthouse • once you see it • tidal wave • Ting! • Tor Books • Unknown Artist Institute • Wil Mara • WTF
Dec 08
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Jaouad’s Art Direction: Ok, this book is about a brain in a jar, so we’ll have a big glowing brain in a jar. With some wires and electrical discharges please, so the audience knows it’s Science. And give it evil eyesockets while you’re at it. An infinity parking lot in the background. A scientist chap. Oh, and a girl, of course. A girl in a frilly dress. With cleavage. And nailpolish.
Published 1950
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Tagged with: Bantam Books • cleavage • Curt Siodmak • damsel • dude • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Dec 07
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Art Direction: A lizard… with a codpiece… fighting in World War 2 may seem like a crazy idea. But just put him in a work out vest and give him a laser gun. It will all work itself out!
Published 1995
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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • frickin laser beams • Harry Turtledove • lizard people • lizards • New English Library • Unknown Artist Institute • war
Dec 02
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Scott Comments: Elven stripper riding a giant flying owl-cat steed! Or, tiny Elven stripper riding a normal-sized owl-cat steed? Either way, that’s one terrifying/terrified owl-cat.
Published 1983
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Tagged with: beast-riding • cleavage • damsel • flying • Pocket Books • Somtow Suchartikul • strange creature • Timescape Books • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Dec 01
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Alessandra Comments: Can’t quite decide if it’s a brilliant absurdist collage or a goofball collection of oddments. Egg cartons over the breasts? Seriously? And bags of candy on the shoulders and RAF wings over the head and… Yeah, goofball collection of oddments.
Published 2011
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Tagged with: damsel • font problems • Margaret Atwood • Nan A. Talese Books • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
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