Good Show Sir

Mar 22

Honourable Mentions 18

Magazines, franchise books, paper dolls and “non-fiction” occult. We have a potpourri jamboree here for another in our continuing series of Honourable Mentions. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

Now add a pinch of Picard Click for larger image

Erik Tollstedt Comments: I want an image of Ernest Hemingway. He should be sitting on a purple couch in outer space. There should be papers flying away from his lap. Also, I’d like to see Ernest Hemingway’s head explode. But not in the normal way. It should explode into several other heads, one of them a sleeping hispanic man, and the other Emperor Ming. And have some sort of purple beam shoot out of his brain too. Yeah, that will convey “creative genius” like nothing else.
Published 1990

Laser Rhodan Click for larger image

Lillie Awesome Comments: When the party supply store attacks.
Published 1972

You look great! Let's head to the sushi bar Click for larger image

GSS ex-noob Comments: Why don’t you post more of my covers?
Published 2017

Conjure Wife-swapping Click for larger image

Theresa Comments: The satanic black mass orgy happpened so fast that it was just a blur.
Published 1973

(Average: 5.85 out of 10)

Tagged with: Ace Books • Baby Tattoo Books • beard-wielding • Brian Kesinger • cephalopod • Clark Darlton • cleavage • damsel • dude • Francis King • frickin laser beams • Gardner Dozois • Gary Morrow • Honourable Mentions • Isaac Asimov • Joe Haldeman • magic • mighty moustache • mind: blown • my head aplode • New English Library • octopus • Perry Rhodan • Satan • sexytime • starkers • strange artifact • suits you • tentacles • top hat • Wayne Barlowe

Mar 21

Doomtime

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Doodletime Click for larger image

Mrs. McGillicuddy’s Art Direction: We need a cover fast. Paint something science-fictiony in the background of your self-portrait.

Published 1981

(Average: 8.18 out of 10)

Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • DAW Books • Doris Piserchia • dude • H.R. Van Dongen • little people • once you see it • strange creature • tree people • WTF

Mar 20

Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

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A Listicle for Leibowitz Click for larger image

FluffyGhostKitten Comments: Ever heard of ‘fractal wrongness’? Draw that. And don’t forget the naked lady. The naked lady is essential.

Published 1997

(Average: 6.32 out of 10)

Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • damsel • Dell Books • flying horse • Matt Zumbo • moon • pope • ridiculous hat • robes • staff • starkers • Walter M. Miller Jr

Mar 19

Wheels Within Wheels

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It's a wheelie good book! Click for larger head

Juan Paul Comments: Run! Crazy Uncle Leo found out we raided his porn stash!

Published 1978

(Average: 8.11 out of 10)

Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • booties • clouds • damsel • Dell Books • dude • Ellis • F. Paul Wilson • floating head • jazz hands • old-timer • puffy shirt • white

Mar 15

The World of Null-A

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Gamer-of-the-future's got a joystick on his head. Click for larger image

Tat Wood Comments: Painted by Emsh during a Cortico-Thalamic Pause and with an introduction by Forrest J. Ackerman, just in case the cover-art didn’t make you run away fast enough.

Published 1964

You might remember this from here.

(Average: 7.47 out of 10)

Tagged with: A.E. van Vogt • Ace Books • damsel • dude • Ed Emshwiller • joystick • my head aplode • rocket • spectacular space chart

Mar 14

Krono

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What a beautiful creature! Let's kill it for the museum! Click for larger image

Tat Wood Comments: ‘Jumanji’, the Borough Surveyers’ edition.

Published 1988

(Average: 6.12 out of 10)

Tagged with: Alan Gutierrez • alien landscape • Avon Books • bad science • bubble helmet • bug • bug-eyed • Charles L Harness • damsel • dude • font problems • ill-fitting spacesuit • meter stick • wings

Mar 13

The Müller-Fokker Effect

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Ripped from the pages of the unknown artist's anatomy class sketchbook Click for larger image

Too ridiculous for space sheep Click for larger image

It’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Müller-What-The-Fokker Goings-on

#1 Tat Wood’s Art Direction: “Look, we’re late to this whole Cyberpunk thing but I’ve got the rights to a book about a guy being stored as data. It was published twenty years ago but we can kid the nerds into thinking it’s hip and fresh. It’s a comedy but for Chrissake don’t let on.”

#2 Good Show Sir Comments: Tat lays down the challenge, but I say you can never beat the first edition. Those hardcover publishers only hire the best artists.

Published 1990, 1970

(Average: 8.48 out of 10)

Tagged with: Bill Botten • Carroll & Graff Books • dead eyes • eye-yi-yi • font problems • Hutchinson • John Sladek • living tissue over metal endoskeleton • my head aplode • nose • Ouch! • spectacular space chart • Spock ears • swingers • tasteful smoke • two-fer • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF