I like that his eyebrows are brick ledges, thus permitting a bird to perch thereupon. Logical, but strange.
Perhaps all prisons could be constructed along the same lines. The convicts inside would think they were just looking out of a window, but we passersby would know they were trapped inside a giant brick head.
This cover could also serve for two Harlan Ellison books: I HAVE NO MOUTH (BECAUSE THE BRICKLAYER OMITTED TO GIVE ME ONE) AND I MUST SCREAM; and DEATHBIRD STORIES.
Looking closely above the face, it appears as if not just the hair but the skull itself is made of birds.(birdhair,birdskull…birdbrain?) I can’t imagine how this relates to a story about one-night stand sexual encounters in America.
February 20th, 2013 at 10:05 am
What it really needed was a single tear running from one of the windows. Though with the birds about, that could be mistaken for something else.
February 20th, 2013 at 11:15 am
I like that his eyebrows are brick ledges, thus permitting a bird to perch thereupon. Logical, but strange.
Perhaps all prisons could be constructed along the same lines. The convicts inside would think they were just looking out of a window, but we passersby would know they were trapped inside a giant brick head.
This cover could also serve for two Harlan Ellison books: I HAVE NO MOUTH (BECAUSE THE BRICKLAYER OMITTED TO GIVE ME ONE) AND I MUST SCREAM; and DEATHBIRD STORIES.
February 20th, 2013 at 11:49 am
To me it looks like the bird on his eye just won’t shut up. And he can’t tell it to stop talking to him!
February 20th, 2013 at 12:55 pm
At first glance I read the cover as “A Touch of Sturgeon.” And I was like “You know, I think I’ll just have the salmon instead.”
February 20th, 2013 at 12:55 pm
Anyways, you know what they say: A bird in the eye is worth two in the hair.
February 20th, 2013 at 1:35 pm
“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” as interpreted by the bricklayers union.
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/04/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream/
February 20th, 2013 at 1:58 pm
Looking closely above the face, it appears as if not just the hair but the skull itself is made of birds.(birdhair,birdskull…birdbrain?) I can’t imagine how this relates to a story about one-night stand sexual encounters in America.
February 20th, 2013 at 3:59 pm
@Tom Noir: funnily enough, there is another Theodore Sturgeon book which IS called “A Touch of Sturgeon”:
http://arthursbookshelf.com/sci-fi/sturgeon/covers/A%20Touch%20of%20Sturgeon.jpg
February 20th, 2013 at 5:44 pm
Guess what? I got a fever! And the only prescription… IS MORE COWSILL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFtuTktbofc
February 20th, 2013 at 5:48 pm
Bird Hair and Prison Face. Together, they fight crime.
February 20th, 2013 at 5:51 pm
@Fred – I can’t tell if those are kids sitting at their feet or groupies… either way it doesn’t look very comfortable!
February 20th, 2013 at 6:34 pm
@David Cowie – That’s totally the line I should have gone with.
February 21st, 2013 at 1:37 am
Sturgeon’s Law, mk. II: 95% of everything is brick.
This is also the first time a gentleman has said to a lady, ‘Excuse me! but my eyes are up HERE!’
February 21st, 2013 at 5:30 pm
My hair is birds, your criticism is invalid.
February 21st, 2013 at 6:33 pm
Bird with flower: “I think I look pretty dashing”
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:59 pm
The artist was a time-traveler; the woman is Felicia Day.
February 26th, 2013 at 8:30 pm
The thing that really bothers me is there appears to be a rose growing out of her head….
February 28th, 2013 at 5:59 pm
Bird-hair-person looks like a young man to me. Pharaoh Boy of the Jay People?
March 1st, 2013 at 10:30 am
Hmm. I was thinking Crystal Tipps and Alistair.
January 12th, 2016 at 11:18 pm
The Man in the Brick Mask. Take that Alexandre Dumas.
November 8th, 2016 at 1:06 pm
This title would make a great alternate title for this whole website.
August 17th, 2020 at 11:38 pm
A rejected design for ‘Another Brick In The Wall’, surely?