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Click for full imageJason Comments: Thank God I started buying invisible eggs, that blonde would’ve ruined my red-heads omelette!
Published 1967
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Jason Comments: Thank God I started buying invisible eggs, that blonde would’ve ruined my red-heads omelette!
Published 1967
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February 27th, 2012 at 9:37 am
Head drops keep falling in my rain?
February 27th, 2012 at 10:29 am
What strange hair that man has.
February 27th, 2012 at 10:52 am
Argh! This ALWAYS happens when I try to remove my contact lenses!
February 27th, 2012 at 11:37 am
This is what happens when you buy a hair graft from the back of a men’s magazine.
February 27th, 2012 at 1:10 pm
I think this is a great idea: pair the Nebular Award winning authors with the worst of the book cover artists. Those guys need all the self-esteem boosts they can get.
February 27th, 2012 at 5:52 pm
If pushed for time, a publisher COULD re-deploy this artwork for FRIENDS COME IN BOXES (http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/02/friends-come-in-boxes/)
February 27th, 2012 at 6:20 pm
I would think that science fiction writers could come up with a snappier title than President. High Lord Admiral or Maddest Scientist or something.
March 8th, 2012 at 8:16 pm
This is a remarkably unappealing image.
Making a cover for an anthology is tricky. I have an assortment of them from various past decades, and they seem to follow a certain logic. They never illustrate any one particular story, but give a general sense of “science-fictionyness” or “fantasyness” or “horrorness,” usually fairly simple (there are a lot of rockets). Ones from the 1960s and 70s tend to be more abstract, like this one.
I guess you can’t really play favorites with an anthology. But it does lead to an awful lot of covers that look like the art director said, “Oh, whatever you feel like as long as it’s generically genre enough.”
Disclosure: I recently painted a cover for an anthology. The art director wanted a recognizable scene, not one from one of the stories but one that conveyed their overall themes, which were generally near-future, urban, and dark. The results are hopefully not GoodShowSir-worthy, and can be seen here:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13477577-absolute-visions
March 12th, 2012 at 10:21 pm
@Alessandra: not at all! Quite urban, quite dark. Bold use of perspective…literally draws in the reader, doesn’t it?
March 20th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Yikes. Another one that is actually on my bookshelf. I’m thinking therapy is in order.
March 20th, 2012 at 3:09 pm
Just viewing this cover makes me want therapy.
March 22nd, 2012 at 7:55 pm
It seems like Clive Barker’s Pinhead decided to go for a different look than the usual this time…