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Joachim’s Art Direction: A man with no hips holding his gun, and a thorny branch…
Published 1975
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Joachim’s Art Direction: A man with no hips holding his gun, and a thorny branch…
Published 1975
June 19th, 2012 at 9:07 am
This books has had some great covers in it’s day:
http://www.pjfarmer.com/afuthumbs.htm
Especially this one:
http://www.pjfarmer.com/bimages/afu.jpg
Wow…
June 19th, 2012 at 9:27 am
Looks like Richard Corben – a pretty great comics illustrator, though prone to the no hips thing.
June 19th, 2012 at 9:31 am
This must be the same guy from yesterday (http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/06/menace-under-marswood/) after a further ten years on steroids. They say steroids can make things shrink, but I didn’t know they were talking about hips.
June 19th, 2012 at 9:37 am
I think the “Adults only” warning coupled with the near nude chap holding his gun and with wood makes this one to savour reading on the bus or tube, or anywhere the general public can speculate on precisely what the content might be.
June 19th, 2012 at 11:48 am
“I’m afraid my Arnold Schwarzenegger workout record only had one side – the bit about the legs was blank.”
June 19th, 2012 at 12:59 pm
I have a copy of this book. (The Playboy press cover from SI’s thumbnails link). It’s basically Tarzan/Doc Savage slash fiction. The adults-only label is well-deserved, but the book manages to be exciting and hilarious with it. Make sure to read the Amazon.com reviews at http://www.amazon.com/Feast-Unknown-Philip-Jose-Farmer/dp/0872165868
June 19th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Hah. If he weren’t holding his big gun, I’m sure his knuckles would be dragging across the ground. The artist really got carried away here doing the arms and, especially, hands. To make up for the hips, I suppose.
This is apparently one of the few covers for this book that doesn’t show both protagonists going at it. A feast like that wouldn’t be exactly unknown, though.
June 19th, 2012 at 4:47 pm
..it really WAS a gun in his invisible pocket!!!
June 19th, 2012 at 8:09 pm
Wow, that’s a big…….gun.
June 20th, 2012 at 4:01 am
Our top-heavy hero is undone by a five mph breeze.
June 20th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Pshaw. Another gun nut overcompensating for his small… uh, hips.
June 20th, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Half man, half chocolate-ice-cream-bar-on-a-stick, he was … FEAST!
June 25th, 2012 at 10:05 am
Unless this is a book about a steroid-infused Neanderthal, who suffers from hand elephantiasis and lower torso dwarfism, who somehow found a rifle and doesn’t know what to do with it, this cover is really hard to explain.
But I somehow doubt that the aforementioned plot might be accurate.
June 26th, 2012 at 12:42 pm
“Grog have very small dinky! But Grog in luck! For Grog use boom-stick as marital aid! “
June 27th, 2012 at 10:58 am
Well, you know what they say. If a guy has big hands…
Or was that big feet?
July 17th, 2012 at 6:24 pm
It looks like he’s scrunching his legs together because he has to pee. That rifle looks like he got it from the planet of the apes.
August 25th, 2015 at 12:08 am
It seems he’s had his pelvis removed. And I don’t care if that is Tarzan, because why is he going hunting in his pants? Because with that rifle, you can barely SEE his pants! So it looks like he’s naked. For those unaware, it is decidedly unadvisable to go traipsing in any kind of wilderness naked OR in your pants. In the BRITISH sense, mind.
August 18th, 2020 at 12:24 am
PJF illustrator borrows top half of ‘Conan’ish picture, adds rifle, fails with the leather knickers, bodges it with grass. Excellent.
November 5th, 2021 at 6:36 am
” As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large.” – Dr. Frankenstein
Unfortunately, he had only finished the top half when a refrigeration failure meant he had to finish the job with short people.
November 5th, 2021 at 10:53 am
Is this Carrot from Discworld? Now I see!
November 5th, 2021 at 11:32 am
Sos the Rope made me vote a 10 on this cover or he’d strangle me.
https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=777
November 5th, 2021 at 1:17 pm
Neither of those links work for me, though I guess they did for everyone else. But I searched the PJF website and found this page: http://www.pjfarmer.com/WORKS-books-a-feast-unknown.html
And that is indeed Richard Corben’s work.
November 5th, 2021 at 1:27 pm
A world where no one is hip. Where hipsters are shot on sight.
November 5th, 2021 at 2:22 pm
Wrap around, original auctioned in 2004.
https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/covers/richard-corben-a-feast-unknown-cover-original-art-fokker-d-lxix-press-1975-the-publisher-s-synopsis-read-lord-grandr/a/814-6204.s
November 5th, 2021 at 2:35 pm
We can certainly see the hands, but …
The Feet Unknown.
November 5th, 2021 at 3:23 pm
How knock-kneed must he have been before joining the gym, for it to still be visible with such mighty thews?
November 5th, 2021 at 8:19 pm
Is he also afflicted with “Bighanditis” or is that just a side effect of “Bigtopitis”?
November 5th, 2021 at 10:01 pm
The Hips Unknown.
He never does leg day.
The combo of orange letters on grody-green background is… not good.
@Bruce: good reference! (It’s twue!)
@Michael: good link.
@THX: Oi! Don’t insult Carrot like that!
@fred: He’s so busy posing with his boom stick that he hasn’t noticed the lion BEHIND HIM!
@BC: I vote Bignhanditis too. Maybe it goes along with his other structural deformities like no hips, small legs, and knock knees. But if he’s the Tarzan-analog, maybe we can chalk it up to British nobility inbreeding.
November 6th, 2021 at 1:48 am
Given Tarzan hardly ever uses a gun, save when killing German troops [1], I am forced to conclude that it is a _metaphorical_ gun.
IIRC, the story involves a secret cabal of immortals, Tarzan and Doc Savage being recent joiners, and IIRC there’s a ritual where the male members have to eat one of their own nuts (and I’m not talking pecans) [2]. If that’s the Feast Unknown, it’s really more a Feast I’d Rather not Know About.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_the_Untamed
[2] They grow back after a while: one of the benefits of immortality.
November 6th, 2021 at 9:48 am
@Bruce: I think we have an explanation for the unusual stance adopted on this cover.
November 6th, 2021 at 11:13 pm
@THX: agreed!
November 7th, 2021 at 5:19 pm
@Bruce: so this is the one time Philip Jose Farmer wasn’t writing a load of bollocks?
November 7th, 2021 at 10:38 pm
More lamb fries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNUbwijCKfw
November 8th, 2021 at 4:19 am
@Tat: only half a load.
@fred: Rocky Mountain Oysters, or I guess in this case Kilimanjaro Mountain Oysters.