Sep 12
Good Show Sir Comments: Cordwainer Smith’s little know Planet of the Apes/Gor mashup.
Thanks to Armando or sending this in!
Published 1989
Good Show Sir Comments: Cordwainer Smith’s little know Planet of the Apes/Gor mashup.
Thanks to Armando or sending this in!
Published 1989
September 12th, 2019 at 9:48 am
Is this one of those “Embarrassing family photos” memes?
September 12th, 2019 at 11:33 am
Boris didn’t even bother to finish the painting. “Hey Boris, you forgot the corner… well, who cares. Print it.”
September 12th, 2019 at 12:22 pm
I think Boris used the same model for two of the figures.
Can you guess which two?
September 12th, 2019 at 12:31 pm
It looks like they took a Boris artwork then had an Unknown Artist paint the gorilla and kneeling woman’s heads at a later date to make it suit the novel.
September 12th, 2019 at 1:10 pm
It’s “Tomo Secondo” yet there’s a very large ‘1’ in the middle of the title. I assume it’s a very liberal translation. And yes, Boris should’ve finished the cover given he had ten years to do it.
September 12th, 2019 at 2:21 pm
The FANUCCI font seems to have a high opinion of itself in not wanting any cover clutter distracting you from admiring its classic Italian style. Designed by Enzo Ferrari perhaps?
September 12th, 2019 at 2:54 pm
“Now, fight like apes! But first, peel me some grapes!”
September 12th, 2019 at 3:10 pm
Stuck in a robe when all you want is a bikini!
September 12th, 2019 at 3:22 pm
The only way the sitting queen could be striking that pose is if she’s handcuffed to her own bikini bottom, which I think she is.
September 12th, 2019 at 4:26 pm
@Tor Mented: um… the two upper ones, maybe? (I kid.)
I have to say, the last cover by Fanucci I remember from this site was way funnier. You know, the “fedora Dalek” one?
September 12th, 2019 at 4:38 pm
Never cut Boris the final check until he delivers the finished cover art.
That third nude was going to be spectacular.
September 12th, 2019 at 4:52 pm
Boris: “Hey, I’ll sell it to Pocket Books too. No one will ever know”.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/df/17/1a/df171a5578c1be053b8577259b8bac22.jpg
September 12th, 2019 at 5:04 pm
Is the Art Nouveau fretwork part of the chair-back, part of her hat or both?
A comic-covers site I used to frequent, ‘Superdickery.com’ has a whole section called Everything’s Better with Monkeys.This week GSS has been reinforcing the idea.
(It’s been revived on Reddit, which will help with the intrusive adverts that stopped me going http://www.superdickery.com/tag/everythings-better-with-monkeys/ )
In other news, Ian Brown released an album twenty-odd years ago called ‘Unfinished Monkey Business’.
September 12th, 2019 at 5:12 pm
Boris: “And get my French agent on the phone. I’ve got bills to pay”.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dd4_uUyUwAESh-J?format=jpg
September 12th, 2019 at 5:21 pm
If ever there were an Olympics for Cover that Has Nothing to Do with the Book, this would be a contender. Mind you, there are ladies in the Instrumentality–one of them, D’joan, is a dog; the other, C’mell, is a cat. I don’t think either wears a bikini.
September 12th, 2019 at 5:36 pm
Is the ape wearing a fur coat? Seems redundant.
September 12th, 2019 at 8:01 pm
Fanucci: “If it’s good enough for a French magazine cover, it’s good enough for an Italian one too!”
September 13th, 2019 at 1:45 am
Man, Boris gets around, doesn’t he?
Nowadays, every Barbarian Princess who wants to strike an impression needs her own lounging Odalisque and talking ape in a bathrobe.
September 13th, 2019 at 3:51 am
You know how I know that this book is a work of fantasy?
Because the women aren’t cold, but it’s the male who is bundled up.
September 13th, 2019 at 4:43 am
@Tor Mented: Maybe the women are from Newcastle.
September 13th, 2019 at 5:04 am
Anyone of a certain age see this and think “Sea Monkeys”? The pose, the hat, the sandcastle — was Boris reading the ads in the back of comics while painting this?
Although they colored the whole area. At least the French and Spanish used that white space for something. Well-spotted, @Rick @Tat @B’mancer.
@Francis: Typesetter distracted by artwork, grabbed the wrong number?
@BC: I looked at all the covers — I think she is!
@Tor: heh.
@Tat (13): whole comment excellent.
4 languages! 4 countries! This art gets around. And I bet it has nothing to do with any of the prose.
Oops, a quick check of Goodreads shows that the Pocket Books cover of “The City” appears to be the original, it being from 1979 and featuring “the seed of her ape-man lover growing within her”, eww, eww, ewww.
After that, I guess Boris sold a washed-out version overseas to anyone who was looking for generic fantasy covers.
September 14th, 2019 at 1:23 pm
Pictured in the middle: Nick Nolte with a hangover.
September 20th, 2019 at 7:31 pm
Judging by the princess’s hidden hand, someone seems to have put itching powder as a joke on that pillow.