Dec 17
Click for full imageArtist: What ya want chief?
Art Director: Ever seen a baby staring at bright flashing colours or the TV? Well draw that type of face! Except floating disembodied through space.
Artist: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit taking amphetamines.
Published 1990
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December 17th, 2010 at 10:21 am
We don’t remember, but this is actually what happens to babies when they watch such programs as the Tweenies.
December 17th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Little-known movie trivia:
Stanley Kubrick suggested ending “2001” with Dave Bowman turning into a planet-sized, disembodied Starchild head floating through space…
…and Arthur C. Clarke replied: “That’s the stupidest ****ing thing I ever heard.”
Kubrick changed his mind.
December 17th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
It’s Gail Porter!
December 17th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
“Don’t stare at the stars in the vacuum of space, kid… the cosmic radiation will make you go blind! Oops, too late.”
December 17th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
That is the copy I had. Always put it front cover down so I wouldn’t have to look at it unexpectedly. Good book, though.
December 17th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
I don’t know – my kids watched years of Teletubbies and their eyes never bugged-out, turned red or caused complete loss of hair.
Although I had those symptoms but for mostly unrelated reasons.
Anyway, nasty looking kid. Not inducing cutesy feelings of warmth, affection or any other parental-like emotion. Only two or three times have I ever wanted my kids to die in the cold vacuum of space – so that doesn’t count. Right?
December 17th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
The awesome splendor of sunrise over Megabrain!
December 19th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
And Rush’s head kept swelling… and swelling… and SWELLING…
January 21st, 2011 at 4:05 pm
I’ve got that. I forgive the cover because the story is excellent.
October 25th, 2012 at 12:30 pm
give the comments here maybe we should ask Chris Achilleos (the artist) if we can use it for the e-cover to Nina Kiriki Hofman’s Toobychubbies…
October 26th, 2012 at 4:18 pm
“If I’ve told him once, I’ve told him a hundred times: Guild Navigators have BLUE eyes!!”
June 26th, 2013 at 6:14 pm
Is it just me, or does that baby look to anyone else like a galaxy-sized CS Lewis? Maybe it’s the Law of Cosmic Censorship at work.
August 17th, 2014 at 10:52 pm
For sale: baby’s head, never worn.
August 18th, 2014 at 4:53 am
DSWBT, you are really bored aren’t you?
😛
August 19th, 2014 at 11:15 pm
@Tom: I resent the implication that I’m a one-dimensional, snark-obsessed electrical appliance
July 25th, 2017 at 7:56 am
I know ‘Evil Children’ is a good fit, but TagWizard, could we have a tag for just babies? The baby covers always make me laugh, and I’d like them in one place.
July 25th, 2017 at 2:33 pm
@Leah – I could, but then who would go back and retag all the old babies?
My former staff is now working at a Russian troll farm.