Nov 07
Click for full imageMisterBOB’s Art Direction: One Word – Cat People… ok… so two words!But one cat alien wearing the latest outer space fashions!
Published 1990
(Average: 8.40 out of 10)
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MisterBOB’s Art Direction: One Word – Cat People… ok… so two words!But one cat alien wearing the latest outer space fashions!
Published 1990
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November 7th, 2011 at 9:19 am
The Questioner’s first question: Are those sequins?
November 7th, 2011 at 10:29 am
If George Takei was a cat person, he would be this fabulous cat man. Hellloooooooo.
November 7th, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Dark (Book Three of the Questioner Trilogy) Paradise: ask for it by name!
November 7th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
ThunderCats!?!
November 7th, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Wow…that’s a lot of buckles.
November 7th, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Space Oddity.
November 7th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
That belt buckle really brings out his eye.
November 7th, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Please, please do not tell me why there’s a Furry with a whip on the cover…
November 7th, 2011 at 3:46 pm
Each of those forearm buckles is taken from an enemy slain in single combat. It’s the Catman’s Creed, donchaknow.
November 7th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Look, if you can’t draw convincing cat fingers, don’t even try.
I’m confused by the dot. As in: DARK.PARADISE
What’s that all about?
November 7th, 2011 at 6:20 pm
@Phil, it’s the proposed website for cat people who want to hook up…..and don’t like a lot of light.
November 7th, 2011 at 6:34 pm
This is a classic example of art which focuses on details and misses the big picture.
The cat’s surface facial features are carefully delineated, but there is no sense of a skull or proper anatomy under there. His head points *this* way and his snout, which is oddly flat, points *that* way. Eyes that large are almost never that close together — it implies weird things about the orbits in his skull. He hasn’t got room on the top of his head for a brain, and his ears are growing straight out of his forehead.
His neck, arms, and especially fingers are all wrong, and the fringelike fur fails to disguise that.
Every stud on the outfit is lovingly painted with highlight and reflection. But … the outfit is flat. It’s like a paper doll.
The underlying anatomy has to be there or the figure will not hold together.
November 8th, 2011 at 12:37 am
I think I’m going to be naming my next cat Whip Studbuckle.
November 8th, 2011 at 3:57 am
Funny, the phrase “kitty with a whip” has never conjured up this particular image before…
November 8th, 2011 at 8:09 am
About that weird dot in the title “DARK . PARADISE”…
In the 1980s, Capcom released the Western-themed videogame “Gunsmoke”. But in order to avoid lawsuits and copyright hassles from the owner of the TV show “Gunsmoke”, Capcom re-titled the game
“GUN . SMOKE”.
Sneaky and kinda dumb, but it worked. So there’s probably some other work titled “DARK PARADISE”, and the “dot” is used for copyright reasons.
November 8th, 2011 at 9:03 am
Jesus, with eyes that freaky it might be a marmoset-person.
November 8th, 2011 at 9:08 am
Aww, f*** me, I meant to say tarsier-people.
‘Marmoset’ is just such a fun word…
November 8th, 2011 at 10:49 am
You say potato, I say potahto,
You say marmoset, I say tarsier…
November 8th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
The dot is either a hole or a sticker, not part of the original cover—it doesn’t appear on my copy. (Yes, I actually own this book.)
November 8th, 2011 at 2:01 pm
The dot means that this cover has the approval of the NSACP, the National Society for the Advancement of Cat People.
November 11th, 2011 at 10:04 pm
@Alessandra
With regard to the nose pointing elsewise the the rest of the head, perhaps he’s the Mike Tindall of Catmen.
http://img.skysports.com/07/10/218×298/Tindall_580199.jpg
November 11th, 2011 at 10:06 pm
And why does it look like he’s stood on a giant tongue?
November 14th, 2011 at 8:47 am
Those aren’t buckles. They’re the collars of all his lady cat friends. Mrreow.
November 7th, 2014 at 7:15 pm
“A secret plot may destroy the galaxy’s oldest and most advanced civilisation from within…”
How secret can a mile-wide ball of wool be?
November 14th, 2014 at 1:31 pm
The dot tells us that paradise is a member available to object dark.
March 31st, 2017 at 9:35 am
Hundreds of Californians now officially identify as “COCP” (Centurion-Oriented Cat People).
April 3rd, 2017 at 3:55 am
Bullwhip or cat o’nine tails?
(I’ll show meself out.)