Doesn’t this bend the rules a bit? Although Kuttner wrote a lot of SFF, this isn’t any of it—according to Goodreads, it’s a fairly violent noir crime novel. Having said which, the artist apparently can draw feet (and other things …).
@LL – Rules? I’ve consulted with our GSS corporate lawyer and part-time psychiatrist and this cover has been ruled “fantasy”. We appreciate your concerns.
All we know for certain is that the artist can do feet in stiletto heels which, given the cover, they might think is all you need to know about drawing feet.
How is a man drowning in an endless expanse of sand dunes? And what is that behind her ankles, anyway?
@L_L: Rarely has an artist been more appropriately surnamed.
@JP: I’m sure there is. Specifically, a bitchin’ Camaro. Or the rest of the van this is painted on the side of.
@BC: I dunno… without being able to actually see the parts or her larynx, we can’t be sure anything’s gendered female here. Could be someone not stylish or imaginative enough to be on RuPaul’s show.
@TW: If you’d had the Eschergirl tag from the beginning, it would show up over in that tag cloud thingy pretty well.
@Vlttp: can you imagine how much sand must get into those shoes? Those giant, giant shoes. I’m more convinced than ever that the cover model was not born a woman.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I doubt that would be the way a book from a major publishing house would go in 1952. And probably not what the artist had in mind.
The original cover is much, much better.
Last time I went tromping around sand dunes in a desert, I wore athletic shoes (with sturdy socks) like a sensible person, and I still had to dump them out and found sand in them for a while.
December 4th, 2019 at 9:38 am
Doesn’t this bend the rules a bit? Although Kuttner wrote a lot of SFF, this isn’t any of it—according to Goodreads, it’s a fairly violent noir crime novel. Having said which, the artist apparently can draw feet (and other things …).
December 4th, 2019 at 9:45 am
@LL – Rules? I’ve consulted with our GSS corporate lawyer and part-time psychiatrist and this cover has been ruled “fantasy”. We appreciate your concerns.
December 4th, 2019 at 10:36 am
If she twists around any more her top half will screw off.
December 4th, 2019 at 11:16 am
Fatal femme tail.
December 4th, 2019 at 11:33 am
All we know for certain is that the artist can do feet in stiletto heels which, given the cover, they might think is all you need to know about drawing feet.
December 4th, 2019 at 3:17 pm
T@2: Fair enough. It’s certainly someone’s fantasy. Centipede Press’s website gives the artist as Ron Lesser.
December 4th, 2019 at 4:00 pm
Is this a copy of Bruegel’s Fall of Icarus? Man drowning while woman flaunts herself in the foreground?
December 4th, 2019 at 5:38 pm
What are the odds those “clothes “were painted on later?
December 4th, 2019 at 6:30 pm
I hope there is a Chevy Camaro on the back cover.
December 4th, 2019 at 6:46 pm
Ah, Escher – my favourite MC…
December 4th, 2019 at 8:59 pm
Unless this is painted on the side of a B17 it’s tacky. Maybe GSS is celebrating the 40th anniversary of ‘1941’.
December 4th, 2019 at 10:39 pm
Nice. . . understated typography!
December 5th, 2019 at 12:53 am
No points for hands or feet. VLTTP points out the obvious shoe dodge. And—she’s got man hands! (Although the other parts are properly gendered.)
December 5th, 2019 at 12:56 am
I looked up the definition of “insouciant” in the dictionary and it’s a picture of her wearing that expression!
December 5th, 2019 at 1:57 am
I think that is a guy maybe dead lying on the ground. Behind her, her, hur hur hur. Ankles.
December 6th, 2019 at 7:20 am
How is a man drowning in an endless expanse of sand dunes? And what is that behind her ankles, anyway?
@L_L: Rarely has an artist been more appropriately surnamed.
@JP: I’m sure there is. Specifically, a bitchin’ Camaro. Or the rest of the van this is painted on the side of.
@BC: I dunno… without being able to actually see the parts or her larynx, we can’t be sure anything’s gendered female here. Could be someone not stylish or imaginative enough to be on RuPaul’s show.
@TW: If you’d had the Eschergirl tag from the beginning, it would show up over in that tag cloud thingy pretty well.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:50 pm
I don’t think that even a drag queen would wear those shoes in that terrain, she must be longing for the refuge of loafers – and a warm coat too.
December 7th, 2019 at 8:06 am
@Vlttp: can you imagine how much sand must get into those shoes? Those giant, giant shoes. I’m more convinced than ever that the cover model was not born a woman.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I doubt that would be the way a book from a major publishing house would go in 1952. And probably not what the artist had in mind.
The original cover is much, much better.
Last time I went tromping around sand dunes in a desert, I wore athletic shoes (with sturdy socks) like a sensible person, and I still had to dump them out and found sand in them for a while.
December 7th, 2019 at 10:44 am
@GSSxn: Of course athletic shoes are more suitable than loafers….
…but I was trying to shoehorn a reference in. (Badadum, tish)