Oct 26
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Durbin Comments: Book officials were shocked when it was revealed that an elderly parishioner had painted over a deteriorating fresco with a haphazard splattering of paint. “The once-dignified portrait now resembles a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic,” one official says.
Published 2010 (maybe)
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Tagged with: Baen Books • dude • font problems • frickin laser beams • gun • handguns • Larry Dixon • Lois McMaster Bujold • shuriken of approval • space • twins • WTF
Oct 25
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MisterBOB Comments: Looks like it’s been over-painted until the paint has turned to mud.
Published 1980

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Tagged with: bikini • bladed weapons • cleavage • damsel • dude • Faux-nan • Jeffrey M. Wallmann • loincloth • monsters • muscles • Romas Kukalis • shiny oh so shiny • sword • Tower books
Oct 24
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Binky Comments: Well, the major theme of this book is of the individual yearning to break free of his faceless, collective society and…oh, okay. You didn’t have to depict it that literally, but okay.
Published 1970

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Tagged with: baldness • Ballantine Books • dude • faceless • Richard Cowper • Science Fiction Book Club • Seymour Chwast • WTF
Oct 22
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Scott B Comments: It looks like there’s some serious industrial-grade symbolism happening on this cover, but I have no idea what it is. An albino woman with some sort of aboriginal figure superimposed (or inside her?) surrounded by Fire (and with weird fiery-squiggle aura around the woman) over a background of Earth and Water. It feels like it should really mean something but…
Published 1972

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Tagged with: Andrew Lang • Ballantine Books • collage • damsel • dude • H. Rider Haggard • Lin Carter • Mati Klarwein • planets • WTF
Oct 17
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Jaouad’s Art Direction: This author sells multi-millions, so I was thinking huge laserdisc with some vaguely operatic characters on it, flying across a landscape of red crystals with a ridiculously large moon in the background. Also a beach girl.
Published 1992

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Tagged with: computers • crystal • damsel • dude • font problems • Grafton Books • jester • moon • Piers Anthony • planets • robes • Steve Crisp • virtual world • Wizaaaaaaaard!
Oct 15
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: I’m still going through this in my head but surely we can have a man carrying away his damsel on a large fluffy cat beast… beast…bea…breasts! That’s it! Just make sure to have breasts on there too!
Published 1978

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Tagged with: beast-riding • capes • Chris Achilleos • cleavage • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • font problems • Gor series • John Norman • pole weapons • space sheep • spear • Star Books • strange creature
Oct 12
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Diggler’s Art Direction: Lets put a big black phallic symbol on a moon surface and have the men running in fear while the women gawk.
Published 1954

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Tagged with: Bantam Books • damsel • dude • giant space needle • Jerry Sohl • Richard Powers • space • WTF
Oct 11
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Gavin Comments: A crap looking Marlon Brando inexplicably appears in the New York skyline.
Published 1992

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Tagged with: Alun Hood • embossing • Headline books • Herbert Burkholz • moon • sky-eyes • WTF
Oct 10
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Kim Comments: Steve Strange meets Rumpelstiltskin.
Published 1972

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