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Click for full imagePublished 1972
Click for full imagePublished 1980
Whitney Comments: I’m sending in two different covers of the same book. They are both wretched.
(Average: 8.51 out of 10)
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Published 1972
Published 1980
Whitney Comments: I’m sending in two different covers of the same book. They are both wretched.
(Average: 8.51 out of 10)Loading...
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June 3rd, 2011 at 9:00 am
But it’s a tradition, everyone who does a cover for The Midwich Cuckoos has to take a large dose of LSD before starting the artwork. It needs to be in by the time to sober up. The last bloke only used three colours so could you make sure to get all these in?
June 3rd, 2011 at 10:00 am
At least the bottom one looks like the artist read the book, even if the giant baby is the moon version of the Teletubbies sun, but what the hell is the top one about? Was the Midwich Cuckoos some kind of gateway to Eastern mysticism? Did they get the covers mixed up with a Carlos Castenada tome?
June 3rd, 2011 at 11:22 am
Red/blue pied stacks of jester-baby body parts?
This… This is not what The Midwich Cuckoos is about.
June 3rd, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Well, I see an egg, which has cuckoo connotations!
June 3rd, 2011 at 2:18 pm
At least they haven’t renamed the book Village of the Damned.
June 3rd, 2011 at 4:22 pm
..once in a while…to comment is carrying coals to Newcastle….
June 3rd, 2011 at 8:50 pm
I’ve been to Newcastle. There were only a few cuckoos…
June 3rd, 2011 at 9:34 pm
The top looks like a Carlos Santana album cover while the bottom looks like the inspiration for the E*Trade baby commercials.
June 3rd, 2011 at 11:22 pm
You know, I was going to pass on The Midwich Cuckoo, but that recommendation from the Hartford Times has really swayed me.
June 4th, 2011 at 4:27 am
A brilliant book. I never understood why the two movies were called “Village of the Damned”, I think the cuckoo imagery is a better title…
However, neither cover artist (shown here) had any idea what the book was about.
June 4th, 2011 at 4:32 am
Yeah, that’s what you want to see out the window…a giant blue baby.
June 5th, 2011 at 8:57 pm
If the readers come into the book expecting THAT, they’re bound to be disappointed.
June 6th, 2011 at 7:37 pm
The blue-baby cover has a logo with such “whimsical” fonts, you expect something more lighthearted.
“THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS — a wacky adventure in a cozy British village. You haven’t seen mischief until you’ve met the Midwich kids’ gang!”
June 7th, 2011 at 4:59 pm
A tip of the hat for the top photo. That green carpet matches the background of the, er, illustration. Good show, sir!
June 12th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
Mom! Monkey laid an egg!
Cover 2 at does represent the book, although maybe it’s like seeming thinner stood next to your fat friend.
June 17th, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Quality carpet btw!
June 20th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
Cover 2 looks like the night version of the baby in the sky from Telletubies.
October 28th, 2013 at 2:55 pm
Glad to see the Na’vi are getting some work outside of ‘Avatar’.
September 18th, 2014 at 6:22 pm
Be glad you didn’t see the cover to The Middlesex Boobies!
January 25th, 2015 at 10:11 pm
The Cosmic Baby looked upon the faux-Tudor houses with his unsettling golden eyes, while no one beneath knew what came for them . . .
And as for the other cover, it must have been painted stoned.
May 28th, 2015 at 10:31 am
They’re going to have real trouble selling those houses. Worse than a motorway that is.
May 29th, 2015 at 10:17 am
@Claire: I’m surprised the house on the left doesn’t have any lights on. Surely anything that big saying ‘cuckoo’ will keep everyone awake at night.
September 12th, 2015 at 8:13 am
The title anagrams into an epic furry/sci-fi crossover:
I, WOODCHUCK CHEMIST
September 13th, 2015 at 10:14 am
@Perry Armstrong: …in which the protagonist finds out something nefarious going on at Chicksuit Wood Chem, at Humid White Cocks Co. or with Shiti Duck Come Chow.
January 29th, 2016 at 6:18 pm
the first cover art is from Mati Klarwein…a German surrealistic artist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mati_Klarwein
July 15th, 2024 at 7:47 pm
Judging from @poul’s comment, I’m just going to assume they had a random Mati Klarwein picture handy and used it for a cover.
Yellow eyes or not, the giant baby doesn’t really convey the sinister nature of the Cuckoos, unless one is terrified by the Gerber baby.