Nov 22
Knautwerks art direction:
Okay, so, its an anthology of stories on ghosts, witches and demons. Cover ideas anyone?
How about a brain damaged dragon frolicking in a lake?
GENIUS!
Published 1971 (maybe)
So it’s a children’s book, but is there a better way to start your Monday!?!
Many thanks to Knautwerk!
Many thanks to Knautwerk!
November 22nd, 2010 at 9:34 am
Obviously it’s a drawing/painting of the ghost of a demon witch-dragon…It probably drowned in that lake.
November 22nd, 2010 at 10:18 am
There’s something of the Joel Grey in Cabaret about the dragon’s expression there.
“Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome, im cabaret, au cabaret, to cabaret!”
November 22nd, 2010 at 12:28 pm
THX–funny, I was about to say that the dragon looks as if he’s not allowed near small children and schools. Same thing, really.
November 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Not to mention that godsawful font…
November 22nd, 2010 at 1:28 pm
I’m enjoying the spike upwards next to the apple.
Dragon pretty much has a, “Excuse me Sir, I am having a bath here thank you very much!” Look on his face.
November 22nd, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Is it just me or is that dragon’s face more bovine than draconic? And I think it badly needs a visit to the dentist. That looks like some bad gum disease on those front teeth.
November 22nd, 2010 at 3:17 pm
I wasn’t thinking bovine or draconic, I was thinking it looked like the Jimmy Durante of dragons … ah cha cha cha!
November 22nd, 2010 at 5:57 pm
I’ve seen graffiti that’s easier on the eyes than that book logo.
November 22nd, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Kid 1: “I just got the best book ever! It’s called Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! It features severed heads and facial boils filled with spider eggs!”
Kid 2: “Oh wow! I just got a book like that! It’s called Stories of Ghosts, Witches and Demons. It’s about elves and dragons!”
Kid 1: “Oh… well, you can’t bring that with you to the slumber party.”
November 22nd, 2010 at 7:33 pm
It’s the Gene Simmons of dragons.
November 22nd, 2010 at 10:11 pm
DERP
November 23rd, 2010 at 4:25 am
The font makes the first word in the the title “Stories,” look like “swories” which brings to mind sweet little tykes with adorable lisps who inspire one to nausea with their incessant cuteness. “Uncie weed meh a bed twime sworie.” “Very well, once upon a time there was a demon king who drew his power from raping young women and feasting upon the flesh of the offspring of their unholy union…”
November 27th, 2010 at 6:02 am
Mehhhh, I’ll be the spoilsport and say it doesn’t really look bad. It probably would’ve caught my eye when I was a kid.
August 2nd, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Apple should have remained in the consumer electronics business.
October 24th, 2013 at 1:59 am
Swries of Grosts, Wicches, and Demons. Strange how ‘Demons’ is the only noun in the entire title. Coincidence? I think not.
And those are the worst front teeth I have ever seen on any mythical beastie. And what, pray tell, is going on with the rawhide loop whatever it is on the underside of the neck?
I can just hear the damn things voice in mind too…
“Doh ho ho ho hee! Uhhh, hullo, ahma dragon I am. Yup yup I am! ”
Great. That’s gonna be stuck in there all day. Curse you, Random Terrible Cover!
October 24th, 2013 at 2:06 am
THE ONLY NOUN THAT’S LEGIBLE YOU ILLITERATE MORONIC GRAMMAR CHECKING COMPUTER! QUIT TAKING OUT MY PHRASES YOU ROTTEN WANKER!
So there. Damnit.
December 12th, 2013 at 1:56 pm
“Stories of Things We Didn’t Have Stock Cover Art For”
July 2nd, 2015 at 3:48 pm
This dragon has very few teeth. I’d say it’s time to start busting out the ol’ dragon floss to help preserve those pearly whites!
July 2nd, 2015 at 4:01 pm
@Tom Noir: It must be Clifford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL1FKzk7g-s
November 18th, 2017 at 5:57 pm
If a dragon falls into water, does it become a sea serpent?