Mar 20
Good Show Sir Comments: The Men Inside the Outfits on the Cover
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1973
(Average: 6.75 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: The Men Inside the Outfits on the Cover
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1973
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March 20th, 2024 at 11:30 am
I think that blurb was written on small pieces of paper, and then the editor just happened to sneeze.
of earth’s
the outcasts
the world
soul
the darkness
*AA-CHOO!!*
the darkness
the world
soul
of earth’s
the outcasts
*AAAA-CHOO!!*
the outcasts of
the world
invade
the darkness
of earth’s
soul
“That’s it!”
March 20th, 2024 at 12:42 pm
“Yeah it would be nice if we could have a disembodied head puking tomato sauce on there.”
I’m starting to think that Barry N. was actively asking for terrible covers.
March 20th, 2024 at 2:29 pm
Banished to the catsup mines.
March 20th, 2024 at 2:45 pm
Again with the “Never before published” tagline!
It means absolutely nothing!
“Congratulations, it’s a girl! And… she’s never before born.”
“We can offer this brand new model car! It’s… never before made.”
March 20th, 2024 at 3:46 pm
Richard Burton is thinking: My agent is SO fired…
(PS: Shmebulock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WLI6iS3PRk)
March 20th, 2024 at 3:55 pm
“We’ve got to come up with a new angle for Malzberg’s latest novel!”
March 20th, 2024 at 4:36 pm
“This cover illustration is both stupid and off-putting.”
“Never mind, just put it on crooked.”
March 20th, 2024 at 5:20 pm
Ummmmmmmm,,,,well that’s…..something, Goodreads.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2272097.The_Men_Inside
March 20th, 2024 at 6:00 pm
@fred – thanks for that, now the cover makes even less sense (um – awesome!)
@ryan – they probably got fired shortly thereafter
@daard23 – ooch! GSS!
March 20th, 2024 at 7:38 pm
Woman at lower left: (Sings a selection from “The Mikado.”)
Critic, center: “Uuuuuurk. Uh, sorry. I might have been able to take your singing, but this cover tilt gives me vertigo.”
Richard Burton: “So this is why they handed me a mop.”
March 21st, 2024 at 12:09 am
Another in the near-infinite series of “It’s SF, put some random surrealistic shit on the cover”. With the innovative “put it at a wacky angle” variant.
No wonder the giant disembodied face is puking.
Someone had a bad trip before painting this, and people who looked at this while on psychedelics would have a bad trip seeing it. Not good for 1973. Don’t take the brown acid.
March 21st, 2024 at 3:49 am
It’s like Max Ernst did the illustrations for The Gallery of Regrettable Food
http://lileks.com/institute/gallery/menucards/04salads/9.html
March 21st, 2024 at 3:13 pm
@JJYoyo: I see how your mind connected the two, and I’m thoroughly amused.
Every young enthusiastic 50’s housewife regretted being fooled into wasting their time on overly-decorative jelly-encased side dishes that disappointed/grossed out everyone. Were Betty and Jello in cahoots? Who thought encasing pieces of meat in jelly was a good idea in the first place? (I’m lookin’ at you, Spam…).
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:26 am
@jJJYoyo: LOL!
@Emster: I am thankful that even though my mom housewifed through that era, she never put meat in Jello, because she was a woman of good taste. Really, never any protein in gelatin, just fruit, not even veggies.
March 22nd, 2024 at 4:37 am
I would swear jello with salad stuff in it was part of the school lunch in the early 80s, at least here in Albuquerque. It’s possibly my memory is conflating more than one dubious foodstuff.
I think the Gallery(with which I’m quite familiar) is a little heavy handed at times: there’s some stuff there that looks quite edible even without factoring half a century of slowly fading and discoloring photographs. (Of course, then there are abominations like these: https://lileks.com/institute/gallery/knox/4.html )
March 22nd, 2024 at 6:11 am
@Bruce: I do vaguely remember carrots, cucumbers, and the like in lime (always lime) jello in school, but mom didn’t commit that.
Your point about fading photos is well taken, although just reading some of the “classic” recipes is enough to make one urp. The words alone are disgusting.
March 28th, 2024 at 3:24 pm
@Bruce and @GSSxn – I was about to claim that Canada was the Land the Jello Forgot and we managed to escape unscathed, however I recall a short-lived fad of adding milk instead of water, so I have NO business mocking anyone else… PS that Klingon brain would be great at a theme party… hmmm…