Aug 19
Click for full imageGood Show Sir Comments: And now on the BBC, everyone’s favourite children’s cartoon, The Magic Evil Clown Devil Ghost Funny Crocodile Man. Warning, some viewers may find that certain scenes scar them for life.
Published 1967
Many thanks to Darren T for sending this in!
(Average: 8.51 out of 10)
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August 19th, 2013 at 9:42 am
RT @GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: The Joyous Invasions http://t.co/CLlaISaZ4V
August 19th, 2013 at 9:55 am
Yellow Submarine II: The RED Meanies.
August 19th, 2013 at 10:01 am
Fractal centaurs, fractal fingers, fractal tongues… The only thing missing is a fractal tag.
August 19th, 2013 at 11:22 am
If it’s a joyous invasion, why is the crocodile crying? đ
August 19th, 2013 at 11:26 am
@Dead Stuff – Maybe the crocodile is the one being invaded!
August 19th, 2013 at 12:22 pm
BLUE MEANIES!
August 19th, 2013 at 1:59 pm
Who gave the Blue Meanies their own Saturday Morning cartoon?
August 19th, 2013 at 2:53 pm
Slight problem with your vertical hold on the title there, Mr Sturgeon, but I’ll have that fixed for you in a jiffy.
August 19th, 2013 at 3:14 pm
Available for children’s parties, bar mitzvahs and pub cabaret. The Astounding Mr Jolly – Balloons, Jokes, Magic Tricks and demonic projectile vomiting. Bring your own Acid.
August 19th, 2013 at 4:25 pm
Obviously the inspiration for Harry Potter, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, everything Stephen King has ever written, and maybe ASOIAF. And would make one hell of a black velvet ultraviolet poster.
August 19th, 2013 at 8:27 pm
Really? Crocodile tears? I mean, really?
August 19th, 2013 at 9:39 pm
At Penguin, Romances get covers that look romantic, Westerns get covers that look western, and Science Fiction gets … whatever the art director has left over from Children’s Stories.
August 19th, 2013 at 10:47 pm
I thought the crocodile just made this cover. I mean it was pretty bad in it’s psychedelic awfulness already, but the crying crocodile just pushed it over the top. Especially as it looked like it was grinning with its tongue hanging out. Tears of joy? Then I realized, that wasn’t his tongue, but rather the tail of one of the demon/ghost/red meanie-double-headed things, and he was probably crying for a completely different reason.
And then I really wished I wasn’t eating lunch while looking at this.
August 20th, 2013 at 5:55 am
Corollary of Sturgeon’s Law: 95% of SF book covers are crap
August 20th, 2013 at 7:31 am
Make that 98%… 100% of which appear in this blog.
August 20th, 2013 at 7:32 am
I didn’t know there was a text font named “Glaucoma Bold”.
August 20th, 2013 at 11:13 am
@A.R.Yngve — That font is Glaucoma, but Eye-talic, not Bold.
August 28th, 2013 at 3:12 am
Thank God Theodore Sturgeon and Michael Moorcock never had an illegitimate love child( through the wonders of science… fiction). It would no doubt have grown up, or into, a writer of course. Causing the instantaneous genetically improbable spawning of The Worst Cover Artist Ever! And great woe would thus envelop each and all of those patrons and devotees of the fiction fantastique.
Then again, could the Anti-Frazetta, the Whelan Apostate, or any other exaggerated artists doppelganger do worse than what we can already see?
I really shouldn’t pick on Mr. Sturgeon. Too easy really. Like shooting fish in a… blog post… kinda thing. Boy that fell apart.
All good people are asleep and dreaming.
So how goes things Dead Stuff?
August 28th, 2013 at 5:17 am
@FöMĂąâŹâ”All good people are asleep and dreaming.”
Not all, FĂ«ar, no, not all . . . .
September 3rd, 2013 at 10:40 am
I can’t vote on this. I’m not sure if the Guernica references make this terrible or a satirical masterpiece.
December 10th, 2014 at 10:08 am
LOVE this cover by Alan Aldridge, it’s a stunner!
December 11th, 2014 at 7:54 pm
From the Art of Penguin Sci Fi site: ”Penguin sf had never seen anything like it. Aldridge clothed his cast of characters in dicky bows and polkerdots or kipper ties and pantaloons, mixing vaudeville with freak show in a crazy raving medley of surrealism and psychedelia that pinched from Pop Art and flirted with Art Deco. His phantasmagoria of floating images took sf to the brink and the titles of the books said as much. Strung out in shrieking white capitals, they splintered the blackness like a banshee’s wail’. sums it up very nicely imo.
February 21st, 2017 at 12:19 am
RIP Alan Aldridge… he did millions of book covers, any more in the pipeline for showing up at GSS?
February 21st, 2017 at 2:34 am
@THX 1138 – All of Alan Aldridge’s covers are GSS worthy. Send in photos of any we haven’t posted yet.