The Guy in the Hat—
“Ok, well, they may be a little stout but they are nude babes after all. But I can’t say anything, I can’t think anything, I can’t even look. In today’s cultural climate that would be suicide. In fact, I’m just putting my head down and slinking off of this pineapple as quickly and quietly as possible. La-da-dee . . . nope, don’t see nuthin’, not me, no sir.”
If he’d tried harder, that artist for Panther books’ cheap paperback line would have been able, years later, to boast “yes, I did the cover for a first edition collection by one of Britain’s most prestigious authors of the last fifty years” … but he couldn’t, because people would have asked to see it and – once they had seen it – they would have hit him. Repeatedly.
@B’mancer: my thought exactly. Took all the fun out of going there. He and his dirty mac are leaving, never to return to Pineapple Grove.
@THX (1): Sadly true. Some friends of mine were heavily into the naturist lifestyle in California. So they wanted to do the same when they traveled. And were not entirely surprised when, in England, they met up with ghost-white, hollow-chested people (with some ghost-white, beer-bellied people) on rocky “beaches”, glorying in the “heat” of 20 C.
@fred(2): A very British blurb. No overstatement — he’s only “almost” a visionary. Don’t get too carried away with the praise.
Some day, this cover is going to make sense. I have faith in it. In some distant future, a supermind or supercomputer will gaze at the cover and go “Aha! I get it now.”
@A.R.Y.—One thing that does make sense, though, is having all of your characters standing on a pineapple as a way to avoid having to draw all those feet.
Is this near the Concrete Island? Could they trade some concrete for some softer surfaces? Maybe do a deal for what might be a giant pineapple underneath them?
What’s fedora and trenchcoat chap looking at? The aforementioned C.I., where at least 50% of the people are clothed and he thinks he’d fit in better, plus the naked people are definitely female?
November 28th, 2017 at 10:47 am
Yeah, this is why nudist beaches in Britain are a bad idea.
November 28th, 2017 at 11:52 am
I think this editions cover blurb would work better with todays cover.
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5275/5900028081_13bdfa19da_b.jpg
November 28th, 2017 at 12:21 pm
Mmmmmm… pineapple.
November 28th, 2017 at 12:26 pm
The dudes walk in
The dudes walk out
The nudes on pineapples look kind of stout
November 28th, 2017 at 1:10 pm
Pina Colada – The Official Drink of The Day of Forever.
November 28th, 2017 at 1:23 pm
The virtues of a single day that lasts forever can be hit or miss.
November 28th, 2017 at 1:46 pm
The Guy in the Hat—
“Ok, well, they may be a little stout but they are nude babes after all. But I can’t say anything, I can’t think anything, I can’t even look. In today’s cultural climate that would be suicide. In fact, I’m just putting my head down and slinking off of this pineapple as quickly and quietly as possible. La-da-dee . . . nope, don’t see nuthin’, not me, no sir.”
November 28th, 2017 at 1:55 pm
The reason Kid cut his hair.
November 28th, 2017 at 3:02 pm
The career of the big nudist was over once this photo emerged of him grabbing the smaller nudist’s bum.
November 28th, 2017 at 3:30 pm
That’s not the hat I usually associate with Mike Nesmith. Being at right-angles to the other three is very him, though.
November 28th, 2017 at 4:52 pm
It seems like there are an awful lot of bums on this site.
Present company excluded, of course.
November 28th, 2017 at 5:29 pm
The guy in the hat and raincoat looks like a flasher. He’s walking way like, “what’s the point?”
November 28th, 2017 at 9:06 pm
If he’d tried harder, that artist for Panther books’ cheap paperback line would have been able, years later, to boast “yes, I did the cover for a first edition collection by one of Britain’s most prestigious authors of the last fifty years” … but he couldn’t, because people would have asked to see it and – once they had seen it – they would have hit him. Repeatedly.
November 28th, 2017 at 10:44 pm
@B’mancer: my thought exactly. Took all the fun out of going there. He and his dirty mac are leaving, never to return to Pineapple Grove.
@THX (1): Sadly true. Some friends of mine were heavily into the naturist lifestyle in California. So they wanted to do the same when they traveled. And were not entirely surprised when, in England, they met up with ghost-white, hollow-chested people (with some ghost-white, beer-bellied people) on rocky “beaches”, glorying in the “heat” of 20 C.
@fred(2): A very British blurb. No overstatement — he’s only “almost” a visionary. Don’t get too carried away with the praise.
November 29th, 2017 at 5:53 pm
Are they all stuck on a rock outcropping or something?
A detective, stranded with a trio of alien clones, on a rock spire high above the ground. Yeah, that’s what this looks like.
September 22nd, 2021 at 8:08 am
In hindsight, the decorations on my wife’s birthday cake were probably a bad idea.
March 11th, 2022 at 10:46 am
A much butter version of ‘The Persistance of Memory’.
March 11th, 2022 at 11:21 am
Some day, this cover is going to make sense. I have faith in it. In some distant future, a supermind or supercomputer will gaze at the cover and go “Aha! I get it now.”
But alas, such wisdom is not for us.
March 11th, 2022 at 5:03 pm
@A.R.Y.—One thing that does make sense, though, is having all of your characters standing on a pineapple as a way to avoid having to draw all those feet.
March 11th, 2022 at 10:05 pm
Is this near the Concrete Island? Could they trade some concrete for some softer surfaces? Maybe do a deal for what might be a giant pineapple underneath them?
What’s fedora and trenchcoat chap looking at? The aforementioned C.I., where at least 50% of the people are clothed and he thinks he’d fit in better, plus the naked people are definitely female?
March 11th, 2022 at 11:01 pm
Tag Wizard, please check your email inbox!
March 12th, 2022 at 9:09 am
Famous Works of Art, #175: Butts, Descending a Pineapple
March 13th, 2022 at 5:02 am
They’re made of clay.
There seems to be some sort of vegetable growth.
Ch-ch-ch-CHIA!
March 13th, 2022 at 8:49 pm
Three clones and a British detective roaming around on Billy Idol’s head….