Nov 17
Click for full imageJon’s Art Direction: Oh, just pick some stuff from the clipart. It’s about a time machine, so make sure you put a clock in there!
Published 1965
(Average: 7.85 out of 10)
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Jon’s Art Direction: Oh, just pick some stuff from the clipart. It’s about a time machine, so make sure you put a clock in there!
Published 1965
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November 17th, 2011 at 8:51 am
The guy on the right looks like that character in Fallout: New Vegas. You know, the one Matthew Perry voices.
November 17th, 2011 at 10:14 am
I imagine the lengthy tagline should be read out in a bored monotone judging by the lack of exclamation marks.
November 17th, 2011 at 11:14 am
Picnics always get ruined by see-thru clocks.
November 17th, 2011 at 11:26 am
Don’t forget to include a naked lady! Sex sells!
November 17th, 2011 at 11:45 am
I imagine the cover blurb being read by Alan Rickman in his most withering tone…
November 17th, 2011 at 11:46 am
It’s “The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything” for the hepcat rat pack generation. It’s with it, it’s swinging, it’s jazz, man. It’s Madison Avenue advertising art from the back pages of a 1965 National Geographic, complete with … is that Helvetica?
November 17th, 2011 at 12:23 pm
6:00–Time for naked yoga. 9:00–Remember to feed the dinosaur. 3:00–Time for another drink.
November 17th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Is it just a splodge of grut on the cover, or is one of the buildings in that city skyline on fire and belching smoke?
November 17th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
@Adam Roberts:
It’s a smudge on the cover.
Interestingly, this was handed over to me by my very conservative mother-in-law, who stated that my also very conservative father-in-law read it “a long time ago” and she thought I might enjoy it.
It was several hours later, when I was back at home, that I realized my very conservative mother-in-law had just handed me a book with a naked woman on the front.
November 17th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
The naked woman is cleverly hidden by placing her on a flying carpet, giving a vaguely overall metronome shape.
My favourite design element is the floating, freehand letter M just below the word “Time”.
Hmm? What do you mean, someone was testing a biro on the cover of this book?
November 17th, 2011 at 6:10 pm
I would bet my life that artist also illustrated school textbooks at one time.
November 17th, 2011 at 9:06 pm
By an amazing coincidence, I have actually written a novel about a drunk who travels in time…
November 18th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
“backward, forward and sideways through time”… but wait it was a hoax!!
November 24th, 2011 at 3:26 pm
You guys have it all wrong. It’s the dinosaur that is traveling through time!