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Joachim Comments: The sci-fi cover equivalent of any of Edward Wood Jr.’s B-movies — a stock photo combined with a child’s drawing of a muscleman in a loin cloth.
Published 1974
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Joachim Comments: The sci-fi cover equivalent of any of Edward Wood Jr.’s B-movies — a stock photo combined with a child’s drawing of a muscleman in a loin cloth.
Published 1974
March 27th, 2013 at 9:32 am
RT @GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: Mr. Tomorrow http://t.co/HKSpoADZsL
March 27th, 2013 at 9:34 am
Mr Tomorrow wears a wig fashioned from a single piece of teak!
March 27th, 2013 at 11:16 am
Barry Gibb: a science fiction Tarzan! Wait, wasn’t Tarzan the science fiction Tarzan already?
March 27th, 2013 at 11:20 am
Harry from Harry and the Hendersons had a baby with Carrot Top? That is a frightening possibility.
March 27th, 2013 at 11:36 am
“Aww crap, this isn’t what I wanted. Get a colored pencil and draw a beard and some hair on him, quick!”
March 27th, 2013 at 11:52 am
“Dude, my brother’s an artist. He’s got this gnarly set of colored pencils. He can draw it!”
March 27th, 2013 at 11:52 am
That’s Alan Moore’s self-portrait.
March 27th, 2013 at 12:08 pm
Online blurb: “”Had George Orwell thought more about Tarzan and less about Stalin, this is the novel he would have written instead of 1984.”
Check out some of Con Sellers’ other literary achievements:
http://vintagesleazepaperbacks.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/con-sellers-who-was-he/
March 27th, 2013 at 12:15 pm
Such an apt byline.
But what are all those people staring at? We can’t see because there’s a drawing of the man from ‘The Joy of Sex’ in the way.
March 27th, 2013 at 2:45 pm
Come on Mr. Tomorrow, you’re obviously a fine physical specimen. You don’t need to resort to crossing your arms and pushing your biceps forward. Nor must you stand on your toes to further accentuate those sculpted calf muscles.
What’s that? Ohhhhh, the artist just can’t draw appendages very well? I guess it’s lucky for you that loin cloth isn’t any shorter then.
March 27th, 2013 at 4:29 pm
That is soooo 1970’s. “Soylent Green is Tarzan! Soylent Green is made from Tarzan!!!”
March 27th, 2013 at 5:13 pm
And if you put him into a safari/great white hunter costume he’ll become a science fiction Jungle Jim. Ungawa!
March 27th, 2013 at 5:39 pm
Paging The Tag Wizard: muslces?
March 27th, 2013 at 6:25 pm
Orwell’s Tarzan:
“Me Tarzan, you Jane, we are the dead. Big Bwana is watching.”
March 27th, 2013 at 7:49 pm
Bibliomancer beat me to it in recommending that blog page with Con Sellers others creations. It’s worth a look for his book WENCH alone.
March 27th, 2013 at 7:55 pm
I don’t know who Mr. Tomorrow is but just look at those crowds! Can you still get tickets?
March 28th, 2013 at 3:04 am
It took me like three hours to finish the shading on your upper lip. It’s probably the best drawing I’ve ever done.
March 28th, 2013 at 3:05 am
Sorry SI, but Mr. Tomorrow played his last show yesterday. Today he’s on his way to next week so he can play his hits from the past at future dates to be announced.
April 3rd, 2013 at 10:05 pm
Peter Sellers’ cheeky pseudonym??
April 3rd, 2013 at 10:07 pm
A SCIENCE FICTION TARZAN… is physiologically impossible to say and keep a straight face.
A REPRESSED WORLD SOCIETY… is Pat Robertson’s wet dream.
A FRIGHTENING POSSIBILITY… is that we are all characters in a badly written sitcom.
April 5th, 2013 at 8:20 pm
“A FRIGHTENING POSSIBILITY… is that we are all characters in a badly written sitcom.”
You mean we’re NOT???!!!!
April 9th, 2013 at 3:09 pm
“And for my next trick, watch me trample over all these puny people.”
April 28th, 2013 at 3:07 pm
Sequels were:
MRS. TOMORROW
TOMORROW JR.
FIDO, DOG OF TOMORROW
June 21st, 2013 at 9:37 pm
Blimey! Someone’s actually read it. http://consumedandjudged.blogspot.com/2011/01/mr-tomorrow-1974.html
June 22nd, 2013 at 10:55 am
…and tagged it as follows:
“pulp” “sleaze” “mind control” “author demonstrably insane” “wingnuts” “kickers of ass” “sci-fi” “conspiratorialâ€
Which sounds about right.
June 22nd, 2013 at 12:19 pm
@RachelJ: might you work on your sixth tag? I misread that as ‘knickers of ass’.
June 22nd, 2013 at 1:44 pm
@Dead Stuff. The person who has written it up on the site Tat Wood links to has tagged it thus. So there’s not much I can do about it.
June 22nd, 2013 at 4:07 pm
o_0 I click on the ‘author demonstrably insane’ tag, and see Conquering the Hosts of Hell, Past-Life Therapy In Action and PHILIP K. DICK.
…that sounds about right, yeh.
May 22nd, 2015 at 9:25 pm
The first thing I thought upon seeing this cover:
Black Tarzan God: A Child’s Rendering
You see?
February 14th, 2017 at 4:18 pm
Cee-lo Green?
May 31st, 2017 at 8:53 pm
A Brave New World Re-revisited
May 17th, 2019 at 12:34 pm
No matter how Superman dresses up on Halloween you can always tell it’s Superman.
May 17th, 2019 at 1:44 pm
Credit where credit is due; despite how hard they are to draw, he drew the feet.
May 17th, 2019 at 2:22 pm
@JP—Wouldn’t go near the hands, however.
May 17th, 2019 at 11:25 pm
For a right-wing paranoid fascist book, Mr. Tomorrow is depicted as being rather… enhanced in melanin, as several above have noticed.
May 18th, 2019 at 3:16 am
@GSSxN: You’re saying there are no orange right-wingers with silly hair?
May 18th, 2019 at 4:43 am
So the frightening possibility is that the repressed world population will make out with Space Tarzan?
“Con Sellers” sells cons?
May 18th, 2019 at 4:54 am
@Tat: GSS!
They don’t tend to have long, styled hair (while living in a cave?) and most of them aren’t that buff, though.
I don’t know this guy’s ethnicity. I’m not sure I even know his species, the way he’s drawn. Seems to me he’d topple over with that broad chest/shoulders and those tiny feet. Dunno about his fingers, either.
If he’s Mr. Tomorrow, give me Mr. Today, please.
@Bruce: Nobody wants to buy those, with the money the non-pro ones lose.
@Tag W: nice set of tags in the “m” section there.
May 19th, 2019 at 1:06 am
(Reads story description)
Mr. Tomorrow is saving himself for the Right Woman? Well, I suppose its no sillier than original flavor Tarzan saving himself for the White Woman.
So it seems that Manly Individualism can’t maintain gunpowder technology (Mr. Tomorrow uses a bow and arrow), or even pants technology. You can run away to your cave with your guns, but you will eventually run out of both guns and pants.
May 19th, 2019 at 2:25 am
@Bruce: So much for the Superior Manly Man. Guess they were too busy spouting manifestos in the cave to do practical things.