Good Show Sir » font problems http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:45:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Riders of the Winds http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/02/riders-of-the-winds/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/02/riders-of-the-winds/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:41:19 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4835 I look suspiciously like the wizard from two days ago...Click for full TOP-SHELF image

Claire’s Art Direction: Hum, riders on the wind.  Well obviously lots of wind in a pretty colour, and a rider – I know, a naked chick with body tats.  Throw in some standard fantasy stuff, like a castle and a wizard dude et voila!
Published 1988

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Frank Comments: Spotted in the Russian-language section at our Friends of the Library sale. The only English-language word was “fantasy” on the spine. I’m illiterate in Russian.
Published 1997 (maybe)

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Tom Noir’s Art Direction: Now look Horne, you’re a good artist, but you’ve got a thing or two to learn. See, this cover of yours, it’s just not realistic. Does this guy look like he just walked out of an explosion? No. He still has body hair. The fire would have burned it all off! Take this back and I don’t want to see it again until it looks like he’s fresh from a wax job.
Published 1994

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Joachim’s Art Direction: “Raw adventure” — with a whip, in underwear, make sure there’s a rocket… you know what I mean… it’s science fiction.
Published 1974

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/sar/feed/ 19 To Ride Pegasus http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/to-ride-pegasus/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/to-ride-pegasus/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:49:47 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4751 Stage magicians get all the chicks...especially when they have a horse.Click for full image

Alessandra’s Art Direction: I want the main characters looking soulful, or at least sulky.  I want the woman on the left missing her frontal lobes, but balance it out with piles of sausage curls on the woman below.  Give the woman on the right a freakishly small body and no flesh on her arms, no ribcage, in fact no anatomy at all.  Dress them in brightly colored Renaissance fair castoff costumes — don’t forget the purple!  Oh, and put in a horse because you do them so well.  Make its wings as sloppy as you like; we’re going to cover them with the title anyway.
Published 1978

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Michelle Comments: I suspect the figure in the lower half of the cover found their armor just wasn’t enough to protect them from the title pun.  Look at the poor spaceman, crushed by the agony!  This is a follow-up to Matt’s submission of SpaceCops: Kill Station.  I thought maybe you all hadn’t suffered enough, and another one from the series just came into the shop.  Enjoy?
Published 1992

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/space-cops-high-noon/feed/ 19 Hungarian Mega Post 2 http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/12/hungarian-mega-post-2/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/12/hungarian-mega-post-2/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:33:17 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4704 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!

It's the new family holiday destination, space worm holes.Click for full image

Nothing makes an action hero more epic.. than a ferret on his knee!Click for full image

Looks like I picked the right time to bring this phallic shaped weapon!Click for full image

It was our first date and well... I learned we should have just gone for coffee.Click for full image

Marbles in space just isn't the same when you are playing by yourself.Click for full image

That digital world looks a bit... nippy...Click for full image

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Art Direction: Wave… WAVE!?! Well there you go my boy we have our answer right there. Lets put a huge wave on their 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

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/12/wave/feed/ 7 Ram Song http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/12/ram-song/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/12/ram-song/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:07:58 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4690 LSD in space. Look I know that's not the best I've done. But, it's hard thinking of something terrible to put here.Click for full image

ash966 Comments: If your artist is unable to create and illusion of 3 dimensions (the nose and the spaceships), should you really emphasize the fact with a 3-D font? The spaceships look like children’s toys and the font looks like something and 8th-grader doodles in her notebook. Also, what is a “ram song”? I don’t think I want to know.
Published 1984

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MisterBOB’s Art Direction: Make the armour shinny… it’s a David Drake book!
Published 1991

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