Sep 21
Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Comments: Genocide by cat.
Published 1960
(Average: 5.53 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Genocide by cat.
Published 1960
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September 21st, 2022 at 11:16 am
And boy, did this cover lose the race.
I feel bad about been snarky here because Leonard Kessler was by all accounts a respected and indeed accomplished children’s book illustrator and apparently some people find (or at least found) the illustrations charming, but the cover’s a disaster. (It actually looks a bit better in colour. At least with colour it doesn’t look like a New Yorker cartoon drawn by a precocious three-year-old.)
September 21st, 2022 at 12:26 pm
Obviously Heinlein’s inspiration for Stanger in a Strange Land.
September 21st, 2022 at 12:52 pm
Apparently, cats don’t need air.
September 21st, 2022 at 3:25 pm
“Have you accepted Jesus into your heart?”
“Actually, no: here on Mars we eat those cacti, get ripped to the tits and make spirit-animals from balloons. They don’t last long, what with the low atmospheric pressure and the cacti. Would you like to come in and talk about it?”
September 21st, 2022 at 4:10 pm
No wonder they lost. Those spacesuits must really slow them down.
September 21st, 2022 at 4:32 pm
@ Tor Mented
I thought they’d won the race? They’ve acquired a cat as a prize…
September 21st, 2022 at 4:34 pm
@FB – Captions that work with any New Yorker cartoon
“Christ, what an asshole!”
“What a misunderstanding!”
“I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.”
September 21st, 2022 at 5:05 pm
Leonard Kessler’s Lost Eraser on Mars
September 21st, 2022 at 8:35 pm
“Lost? I wasn’t aware I was missing.”
@Cornelius: we can’t see how many legs it has – perhaps it’s a Martian sand-cat ( https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Martian_Sand-cat )
September 22nd, 2022 at 2:11 am
“Love” that wacky 50s/60s font. Perfect for the time.
Reminds me of the Quisp ads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisp
https://www.quakeroats.com/products/cold-cereals/quisp
(and too many YouTube videos)
For you young’uns, Quisp was like Cap’n Crunch, but without the mouth-damaging edges. Dammit, now I want some Quisp. No longer sold in stores, at least not the ones I go to.
Cats don’t need spacesuits? Ah, synopsis says it’s a Mars cat.
Was this perchance illustrated by Leonard Jr. when Dad was busy?
@FB: Yes, it’s much less offensive in color. Wonder why the hardback was B&W and the paper color? Seems backwards.
@B’man: all those work here too.
September 22nd, 2022 at 3:58 am
Mars-cat: I lost the Mars Race, and look what I got – a couple of loser kids in ill-fitting spacesuits….
September 23rd, 2022 at 2:51 am
@GSS ex-noob: clearly, the publisher thought a black and white cover illustration would give the hardcover edition the proper note of ‘gravitas’.
September 23rd, 2022 at 6:32 am
@B’Mancer—I’ve applied the New Yorker caption test to literally scores of New Yorker cartoons and it has improved every single one, except perhaps
this one
September 24th, 2022 at 4:13 am
If the adults’ spacesuits are styled that way, it’s a great disappointment to anyone who has Sir Mix-esque tastes.
@BC: Agreed. That one is perfect as-is.
September 27th, 2022 at 2:58 am
Yow! I remember reading that one – it was in the school library. Not a bad story as I recall, but even as a kid found the illustrations a bit primitive (I was spoilt on Asterix and TinTin, so was a bit of an art snob).
Makes me smile to think a master of SF was influencing a bunch of us kiddos to look beyond the usual library fluff.