Oct 01
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Anne’s Art Direction: It’s a book of short stories by one of the most lyrical authors in the universe? I know, we’ll put a ripped blond naked guy on the front with something or other covering his nibbits. How about a tiger head? That sends the right sort of message, don’t you think? Then we’ll surround him with some dobermans for good measure. To top it off, we definitely need three different fonts but also distract everyone with an aurora border.
Published 1978
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October 1st, 2010 at 8:36 am
Ugh! Seriously, that layout is so grating you could cut frozen fish with it!
October 1st, 2010 at 8:37 am
He’s just like action man. In the end, his groin is an empty void.
I love this cover though. It’s just so epic! If someone saw you reading that they would definitely think you are a man of high tastes and caliber.
October 1st, 2010 at 10:31 am
If fancy fonts will make a bestseller — then take a gander at these beauties, and imagine them rendered in the above style:
– STILL I CANNOT FIND THOSE DARN KEYS
– AND YET SHE MOVES, SHE MOVES, SHE BANGS, SHE BANGS
– ALTHOUGH, NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT, MOM DID REMIND ME TO ALWAYS FLOSS
October 1st, 2010 at 8:07 pm
It’s hard to maintain your balance while sitting astride a tiger’s head.
October 2nd, 2010 at 9:42 am
His body sort of melds into the tiger’s head. It’s like the tiger is his thighs.
Or am I thinking of that Survivor song, ‘The Thigh of the Tiger’ …?
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:17 am
I think he’s wearing an enormous pair of tiger print underpants.
October 5th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
I’m wondering too . . . and not in a good way. They were really very cruel to shrink the actual art work down. You can almost make out the important parts. The story, of course.
December 15th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Ozzy Osbourne made this painting, to explain what went on inside his mind during the bad old days. Scientists are not sure what the tiger represents.
October 23rd, 2013 at 5:22 pm
Still I persist in wondering what the hell is going on with this cover.
October 31st, 2013 at 9:57 pm
The sunflower thing on the side says ‘Dell SF’. Does the ebook edition smell of cat-wee?
February 11th, 2014 at 12:11 am
The Man-Kzin Wars Volume √(-1).
April 5th, 2015 at 1:04 am
For a man whose lower half consists of a giant tiger’s head , he seems unduly alarmed by the presence of a trio of half wolves. Mayhaps tis why the tiger is snarling.
“Turn us around you daft bastard! I’ll show you what you do with those yapping dog heads. Aaah! Would you quit squealing in my ears and turn around already!”
January 23rd, 2016 at 11:41 pm
At least it’s not a darkling world.
January 15th, 2017 at 6:16 am
Is the background a rug/bathmat, or some sort of pile of legumes?
(I had to avert my eyes from the “artwork”.)
June 24th, 2022 at 4:03 pm
I can hardly believe that, in the 12 years this has been here, nobody has mentioned the sorry lack of a full moon. Though, I suppose from the wolves’ perspective. . .
June 24th, 2022 at 4:23 pm
The feral child from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior is now all grown up.
June 24th, 2022 at 7:49 pm
I’ve got a tiger in me loins.
June 24th, 2022 at 7:51 pm
(Loins and tigers and bears. Oh, my.)
June 24th, 2022 at 8:44 pm
The man-eating tiger is obsessively imagining his next meal. Meanwhile, the wolves suggest going for pizza instead.
(BTW, I kinda like the title lettering. Has that old pulp SF pizzaz. )
June 24th, 2022 at 11:39 pm
That looks like a rug to me…
…and in the background of the photo, too. 😉
June 25th, 2022 at 2:01 am
@Tor (18): Heh.
@Francis: I think the moon has been purchased as an advertising platform for DELL SF. It does seem to be up in the sky with the nebulas.
June 25th, 2022 at 6:07 am
Renamed ‘Tiger Boy’ for the German printing. The dogs must have been lost in translation.
https://www.booklooker.de/B%C3%BCcher/Edgar-Pangborn+TIGER-BOY/id/A027WXi901ZZs
June 25th, 2022 at 10:41 pm
I found and read the story “Tiger Boy” last night; you will be unsurprised that the tiger is a regular size and shape, and isn’t ridden. It’s a guy — not buff, pasty white, or blonde — walking around with a tiger.
June 26th, 2022 at 4:58 am
@GSS ex-noob: even bigger letdown than the comic!
https://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics61.html
June 26th, 2022 at 8:39 am
Bro, you can stop wondering, it’s a bad haircut.
June 26th, 2022 at 9:50 pm
Who can resist the cheesy deliciousness of a Flashback Friday?
I’m blaming @Adam Roberts, with apologies to ABBA:
(V) Anne found this book, a cover to share
Released by Dell in ’78
Post by GSS a decade ago, and on Flashback Friday we still agree
(C) Dude with big hair-doo, junk hidden from view
By a big tiger
Snarlin’ right at you, look out – behind you!
Head of the the tiger
(V) Still I Persist in Wondering… about this odd scene
Anne’s Direction is really clever
Is the cover based on a story from an old magazine? – we’ll see!
(C) It’s topless blond dude, might become dog food
Head of the tiger
Who might that guy be, and who set those dogs free?
Head of the tiger….