Nov 16
Click for full imageMisterBob’s Art Direction: Okay, the book is called Reindeer Moon so be sure to paint a reindeer with a Moon and if you any paint left, add a floating bone with flames.
Published 1988
(Average: 4.76 out of 10)
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MisterBob’s Art Direction: Okay, the book is called Reindeer Moon so be sure to paint a reindeer with a Moon and if you any paint left, add a floating bone with flames.
Published 1988
(Average: 4.76 out of 10)Loading...
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November 16th, 2012 at 10:11 am
No, no, keep the bone, you can make soup.
November 16th, 2012 at 10:35 am
…and if you can’t paint a reindeer, just do a sheep’s head and plonk on some left-over moose antlers.
November 16th, 2012 at 11:02 am
REINDEER BONE
(Huh-huh, huh-huh…)
November 16th, 2012 at 12:45 pm
When the Were-Reindeers attacked, all that was left of Rudolph was a thighbone and a smouldering red nose
November 16th, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Right foreground. Why is that snaggle-toothed crocodile glaring at us with his fiery eye of doom? Or do I not want to know?
November 16th, 2012 at 2:00 pm
That’s no moon…
November 16th, 2012 at 4:10 pm
You know what they say about reindeer…big antlers, big…bone. Yup
Actually if you squint just so it looks a bit like a giant cobweb draped fruit bat ai it’s flees madly down a subway tunnel to avoid the Evening Commuter Special, only to encounter a small fire started by hooligans…and a weird bone,uh thingy.
You have to squint ‘just’ right though.
November 16th, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Why is this book all reindeery when there are clearly hippopotami engraved on the bone?
November 16th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Definitely not a modern reindeer, which got me to thinking maybe it’s supposed to be some kind of extinct beastie. Sure enough, it’s modeled after an Irish elk. If you run a Google image search on ye olde Irish elk, you’ll find a couple other illustrations that almost surely served as inspiration for this one, or possibly vice versa. Close enough anyway that the original artist is going to be either irritated or flattered.
November 17th, 2012 at 2:50 am
Certainly a hideous cover. My favourite part of it, though, is the disclaimer at the bottom:
“For everyone who loved THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR”.
It’s essentially saying “I’m not that author, but I write like them! Honest!”
November 17th, 2012 at 10:38 pm
@Greg M:I don’t think any author would publicly admit to writing like Jean M. Auel. This is a desperate publisher’s ploy. Or fair warning…
November 18th, 2012 at 5:56 am
Desecrate the remains of the deer by turning one of its longbones into a really crappy sex toy, get haunted by an angry deer ghost. It’s that simple.
November 18th, 2012 at 5:37 pm
@Tat Wood – Having read neither book, I don’t know how close the authors are to each other. So I do have to agree it’s probably more the publisher’s doing than the author’s. Presumably for filming rights. “They filmed that other book, so why not this one?”
November 19th, 2012 at 2:06 am
Smokey the Reindeer says only you can prevent forest fires.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:11 am
There’s a murderous Irish elk who is also possibly a wizard here.
I see NO WAY in which this could possibly be misinterpreted.
June 12th, 2016 at 5:01 pm
Looks like that reindeer is trying very hard to hold it until he can find the loo.
September 10th, 2018 at 8:56 pm
That bone thing is a primitive woodworking tool called a ‘shaft straightener’. Make as many puns as you think proper. Or just go nuts, it’s all the same to me.
September 10th, 2018 at 9:44 pm
“Shaft straightener”? I think the technical term is a “boner”.