Good Show Sir » unknown artist 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 Paradise Is Not Enough http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/02/paradise-is-not-enough/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/02/paradise-is-not-enough/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:00:40 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4828 It's like, how much more purple could this be? and the answer is none. None more purple.Click for full image

Joachim Comments: Man with heavy mascara, in a purple cloud, with a star, sparkling, under his eye…. Is paradise a purple cloud?
Published 1971

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/02/paradise-is-not-enough/feed/ 11 Время Оно (It Is Time) http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/02/%d0%b2%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%bc%d1%8f-%d0%be%d0%bd%d0%be-it-is-time/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/02/%d0%b2%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%bc%d1%8f-%d0%be%d0%bd%d0%be-it-is-time/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:41 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4819 I don't think more alcohol is going to help us read this book dragon.Click for full image

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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Marcus’ Art Direction: Fredric Brown mostly wrote short stories with twist endings. So let’s have a twist ending to the cover! But, at the same time, semi-naked women sell books. So we should have one of them. Not too big, though, we want lots of nice black space around.
Published 1980

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/02/space-on-my-hands/feed/ 16 Vampire Junction http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/vampire-junction/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/vampire-junction/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:49:58 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4771 Well... At least they don't sparkle at Vampire Junction!Click for full image

Art Direction: We all know the one thing vampires suffer from. Big handitus! 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

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/vampire-junction/feed/ 20 The Illuminatus! Trilogy http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/the-illuminatus-trilogy/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/the-illuminatus-trilogy/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:00:57 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4765 The new series of Battlestar Flipper is so swweeeeeet.Click for full image

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

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/the-illuminatus-trilogy/feed/ 20 The E.S.P. Worm http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/the-e-s-p-worm/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/the-e-s-p-worm/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:42:32 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4760 Darling, have you ever noticed our ESP worm is a bit more... rainbow-ie than most?Click for full image

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

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/the-e-s-p-worm/feed/ 17 A Billion Days Of Earth http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/a-billion-days-of-earth/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/a-billion-days-of-earth/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:38:44 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4737 With these Monty Python feet I am King...KIIIINNNG!!Click for full image

MisterBOB Comments: Happy New Year … said the Rat?
Published 1978

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/a-billion-days-of-earth/feed/ 24 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 Donovan’s Brain http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/12/donovans-brain/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/12/donovans-brain/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:41:01 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4668 Men.. always more interested in jarred brains than their 50's pinup girl!Click for full image

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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