Apr 19
Elijah Comments: Nothing says, “stirring look at spirituality and the uncertainty of agnosticism” like a badly-drawn cowboy running from a volcano.
Published 1998
Elijah Comments: Nothing says, “stirring look at spirituality and the uncertainty of agnosticism” like a badly-drawn cowboy running from a volcano.
Published 1998
April 19th, 2012 at 9:14 am
Badly-Drawn Cowboy? I’ve heard some of his songs on the radio…
April 19th, 2012 at 11:22 am
Good heavens! Mt. Breast has an inflamed areola! Who painted that mountain, Benny Hill?
April 19th, 2012 at 11:33 am
“Look out! This volcano’s literally seventeen feet tall! It could spread lava for yards!”
April 19th, 2012 at 12:49 pm
I’ve often wondered what became of The Village People.
April 19th, 2012 at 1:26 pm
Pretty sure that cowboy’s a zombie, so those other two dudes might want to be careful.
April 19th, 2012 at 2:52 pm
Zombie cowboy vaguely reminds me of Yul Brynner, looking over his shoulder in bemusement at his companion who is about to lose his arms.
April 19th, 2012 at 5:00 pm
The volcano is obviously made even more dangerous by the reverse lightning it is throwing off.
April 19th, 2012 at 6:08 pm
Nice Mantalban pecs!
April 19th, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Run away!
April 19th, 2012 at 6:52 pm
@Yoss – KHAAAAAN!
April 19th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Does this not qualify for a “its behind you!” tag?
April 19th, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Wow. Boys Own Stories were some batshit crazy stuff.
http://arthursclassicnovels.com/sf/wtwsh10.xml
April 19th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
That’s right, you girls can’t have any stories, ‘cos… ‘cos we BOYS OWN STORIES! so there!
April 21st, 2012 at 4:45 am
“Well, how do we categorize this one?”
“Huh?”
“Does anything of interest happen in it or not?”
“Um, YES.”
“‘Boy’s Literature’, then. SEND IN THE NEXT WRITE-SLAVE!”
May 21st, 2012 at 3:12 am
As the artist of this book cover my only excuse is I was only sixteen when I tried my hand at oil painting. This cover was for a Pulp Publications who if it makes all of you cruel critics who never have done a creative thing in their lives feel any better, I got paid fuckall. As the saying goes you get what you pay for. Good show sir..Get a life sir.
May 21st, 2012 at 11:08 am
For the age of sixteen it’s not bad at all. Too bad about the pay. The publisher should have done better by you.
May 21st, 2012 at 1:25 pm
@Whiley
What Alexandra said.
And if it makes *you* feel any better, some of us are authors or artists. We know about not getting paid. We seek refuge from our non-lives on this website, where we can cruelly critique those lovely bookcovers. And I assure you we do truly love them, otherwise we wouldn’t keep returning here, would we? By the way, it’s always great to hear from the artists themselves. Welcome!
May 21st, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Thinking further on it, shame on Pulp Fictions UK for exploiting child labor. “Boys Own Stories” indeed.
May 21st, 2012 at 7:54 pm
lol. Thank you for replying to my rudeness Alessandra we have to defend ourselves cos no one else does. Anyway I said I was sixteen when I painted this but,I submited it after realising the cheques went bouncy bouncy when I was twenty. I kinda got the last laugh.
March 2nd, 2014 at 12:39 pm
It was the fateful day when Orson Welles fell over, the day…
WHEN THE WORLD SHOOK
August 8th, 2014 at 3:03 pm
My comment is awaiting moderation. Or is it?
November 29th, 2019 at 7:37 am
Like dude, what if it turned out every cover here was painted by a sixteen year old who never got paid. Mind blown.
November 29th, 2019 at 12:36 pm
Seeing as how my first link has mutated, another. Kipling supposedly gave Haggard the idea. And our runners are named Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot.
http://rlebling.blogspot.com/2012/11/when-world-shook.html
November 29th, 2019 at 6:57 pm
@FB—Not only never got paid, but never got over it either, apparently, instead carrying a smoldering rage well into post-adolescence until, like a seventeen-foot tall volcano, it pops.
November 29th, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Oh yeah, you can bet that cowboy’s got some stories to tell.
November 30th, 2019 at 6:54 am
@B. Chiclitz: possibly including the one about his breast implants!
Are those steaming red pools supposed to be pools of lava they’re running through, presumably by sticking to the raised rims [1]? Or are they just hot springs tinted red by volcano-light, in which case (by the rules of anime comedy at least) they will soon run into some naked female bathers, who will brain them with thrown wooden buckets.
[1] In which case I must write a letter to their tailor, praising his remarkably fireproof pants.
November 30th, 2019 at 8:38 am
When I saw the cover, I thought “Dianetics?” Reading the description in @fred’s link… kind of? I betcha Elron read this!
I think the guy in the back is Cesar Romero’s Joker. Let’s check Wiley’s youthful viewing habits.