Nov 03
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Terry’s Art Direction: The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about a cure for cancer is – naked chicks! I want you to put in 4 naked women and have their heads blowing up and an Albino man’s corpse emerging from them. Think you can do that? I know it’s a stretch, but . . .
Published 1976
I give this one Michael Crawford!
Many thanks to Terry!
(Average: 8.88 out of 10)
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November 3rd, 2010 at 10:14 am
No wonder they’re taking so long to find one if it looks like this!
November 3rd, 2010 at 11:27 am
Something I have noticed… nudity nearly always seems to be put in the middle of the cover. Just occurred to me… anyway…
I have no idea what is going on with this one. Anyone read the book? Does it have a stocking wearing women tentacle monster?
November 3rd, 2010 at 11:28 am
“Mutant squid creature. It’s the only way to travel around London these days.”
November 3rd, 2010 at 11:40 am
I suppose this is another attempt at surrealism from an artist who didn’t quite get it that surrealism worked as an artistic movement because it was shocking and thought provoking largely because no one had ever done it before. There is a quote from an art critic–can’t remember his name off hand–but something along the lines of “the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table happened only once”
November 3rd, 2010 at 11:53 am
Evil David Bowie is the ultimate Kinder Surprise.
November 3rd, 2010 at 12:23 pm
I just did a quick glance of the cover at first. Thought the white dude was Will Ferrell….which might actually work, but I realize that was my lack of coffee working on me now.
November 3rd, 2010 at 12:27 pm
I think the artist’s parole officer should be notified as this cover clearly violates the terms of his release.
November 3rd, 2010 at 12:27 pm
This actually looks like something Terry Gilliam could have done for Monty Python.
November 3rd, 2010 at 2:52 pm
@SI: well, IT sure is right up front and center there ….
@Weirdmage: now I’m waiting for the giant foot to drop in and squash the thing, or maybe squidzilla there will start dancing the charleston or something.
Must be hard to by stockings in that particular cut … Frederick’s of Andromeda or Sloggoth’s Secret maybe?
November 3rd, 2010 at 2:56 pm
This cover already has enough breasts and thigh, I think. What it needs is more cock.
I thank you! I’m here all week. Try the veal.
November 3rd, 2010 at 3:01 pm
So this cure, it’s in the syringe? Does the apple have cancer?
November 3rd, 2010 at 3:15 pm
“Evil David Bowie is the ultimate Kinder Surprise.”
-Best comment! 😀
November 3rd, 2010 at 5:14 pm
The cure for cancer is Moorcock?
November 3rd, 2010 at 10:05 pm
I am totally not surprised this is a Jerry Cornelius book. As much as I like Michael Moorcock that series was simply too nasty soft porn for my tastes.
December 19th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
As Art Director for fantastic fiction books, you are faced with a unique publishing dilemma: you must balance the opportunity to show truly unusual and bizarre imagery against the risk of alienating potential readers.
The solution, as shown above, is often a compromise: Show something ugly and off-putting instead.
January 22nd, 2021 at 6:18 am
So are these the tentacles the guy from “Sector General” lost?
January 22nd, 2021 at 8:39 am
Little known fact. Prometheus went back and stole the secret of the garter belt from the gods. Two guesses as to what the eagle eats for that little crime.
January 22nd, 2021 at 11:35 am
This could give some enterprising academic an entire semester’s worth of material for their course on Attitudes to Sex and Gender in the Seventies.
January 22nd, 2021 at 1:44 pm
@fred: The eagle eats Moorcock?
January 22nd, 2021 at 2:58 pm
I assume this cure for cancer is in the experimental phase.
January 22nd, 2021 at 3:20 pm
@Francis Boyle: 70s Britain is the one place where a version with Frank Spencer on the cover would have sold better than one with exposed norks.
January 22nd, 2021 at 3:55 pm
And it was Michael Crawford’s birthday this week, what a beautiful tribute.
January 23rd, 2021 at 12:21 am
Seems pretty on-brand for a Jerry Cornelius story.
January 23rd, 2021 at 12:43 am
@Tat: Sure, you could see exposed norks which looked better than these lots of places, but how often do you get to see Michael Crawford? (I did, once, In Concert, post-Phantom.)
@Tor: GSS!
January 23rd, 2021 at 2:08 am
(Pardon me if I steal a couple ideas here. Like Shakespeare, I only steal from the best)
A cure for cancer was developed as a result of a teleporter accident involving a pole dancer, a body builder-assassin, one of HG Wells’s Martians, and an apple all jacked up on heroin. The resulting monstrosity split open and gave birth to Dark Elf David Bowie, who went to cure cancer and reboot glam rock for the 21st century.
January 23rd, 2021 at 6:27 am
@Bruce: And all that was explained in a double-album glam-rock concept album, which went on to *not * win a Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, though it did make the ballot, and all the cosplayers dressed up as the characters you could portray in public.
I can hear the electric guitars now. I could only afford the 2 CD version, not the deluxe heavy vinyl with the fold-out poster.
January 24th, 2021 at 9:19 pm
The man in the orange suit looks more like Neil Young to me. Of course, Neil Young would never have worn an orange suit like that.
I have hunch this artist was the same one who did the double cover of Elton John’s Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
January 25th, 2021 at 3:51 am
@Tracy: different artists, though this one also did albums.
Elton’s records wouldn’t have had norks so prominently featured, of course.