Feb 27
Click for larger imageTor Mented Art Direction: “Here’s my wife’s glamour-studio photo. Turn it into a painting. You’ll have a generic cover, and I’ll have an anniversary gift. Two birds, one stone.”
Published 1994
(Average: 4.41 out of 10)
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February 27th, 2019 at 10:20 am
You know how they say people grow to look like their dogs? The lady will be tucking into her Pedigree Chum any minute now.
February 27th, 2019 at 11:24 am
I wonder if William Wegman weimaranerized this cover.
February 27th, 2019 at 3:08 pm
Ace Books Art Direction: “Paint that bitch!”
February 27th, 2019 at 4:18 pm
This would look great painted on velvet. Or Velveeta.
February 27th, 2019 at 4:36 pm
Artist apparently didn’t have much budget for different colors. Were all the bright colors bogarted by BAEN! ew, ouch, bleh?
@Tor’s art direction: GSS! Sums it up perfectly.
There’s a woman and a dog. Where’s the deerskin come in — her outfit? Is the dog drooling in anticipation of eating it like a rawhide chew toy? (which would tip this over into Rule 34)
How much hair does she have?! And how does it float around like that?
Can’t tell b/c of the crease, but she might be a bit cross-eyed.
And why are the author and title in different fonts?
@THX, fred, B’man: Spot on.
February 27th, 2019 at 6:54 pm
Siegfried and Rover
February 27th, 2019 at 7:25 pm
For her hair to be doing that it’s either really windy (and the dog’s ears would be vertical – try driving a car with an open window and a spaniel) or she’s used obscene amounts of hairspray.
Or, perhaps, someone glued it to the wall behind her.
February 27th, 2019 at 8:19 pm
I think if you picked this book off the shelf, you’d get a static electricity shock.
February 28th, 2019 at 2:36 am
@GSS ex-noob: maybe the deerskin is like a selkie’s sealskin, and she changes into a deer? But why would she have a dog, if she turns into a deer? Perhaps it’s her husband who turns into a deer and the dog is to make sure he doesn’t run off from his child support payments?
The hair doesn’t really fit either: it’s more Magical Unicorn [1] than deer.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_qyCpwvf-Y
February 28th, 2019 at 6:45 am
Wiki tells us this is based on the old fairy tale “Donkeyskin” where the woman is indeed a shape changer. Guess deer sounded more ladylike than donkeys.
But I agree; were I sometimes a deer, I wouldn’t have a damn deerhound/wolfhound hanging around.
Wiki also sez “The book contains numerous adult themes including incest, rape, and miscarriage.”
So it’s not like the pretty, ethereal cover is misleading or anything.
February 28th, 2019 at 9:48 am
I’ve seen the film of Donkey Skin. It has a helicopter at the end. Does that count as an adult theme?
February 28th, 2019 at 2:14 pm
Stuff white people like.
March 1st, 2019 at 4:26 am
Cover of next month’s GOOP.
March 5th, 2019 at 7:15 am
I like the dog but his face seems to be slowly morphing into her right hand.
March 5th, 2019 at 7:39 am
@Tracy: Ah, that solves the problem of a deer-woman with a hunting dog; it’s really just a lifelike dog hand puppet!
March 8th, 2019 at 4:41 pm
Well, this is rather… what’s the name for the mood this cover tries to evoke?
I’ve got it: New Age Pretentious.
“I am one with nature and my spirit animal.”
To which any cynic would reply: “You’re one with a dog? Here, catch this stick!”
March 10th, 2019 at 1:21 am
@ARY: Having had the misfortune of being forced to spend time recently with a woman of that sort, I think you’ve nailed it.
It’ll be all I can do next time I see her not to burst out laughing, thinking of this cover. I wonder if she has a dog…
#12 and #16 sum this up perfectly. GSSirs.
March 13th, 2019 at 2:29 pm
This cover sucks…Even for GSS standards.
March 13th, 2019 at 3:51 pm
@Anti-Sceptic – GSS has standards? Who knew!