Apr 11
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Kelly’s Art Direction: Hmmm, a desert nomad with a magic ring and a crazed glare, an aged but fierce warrioress wearing chain-mail long underwear beneath a tunic slit to the waist, and a princely sort who seems to be counting on the other two to protect him since he hasn’t yet drawn his weapons…
Published 1984

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Tagged with: Ace Books • bladed weapons • daggers • damsel • dude • Patricia C. Wrede • sword • Ting! • Walter Velez
Apr 08
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Ian Comments: A cat with no claws, and a rather strange window (French doors?) looking out to space. The descriptions seems to have to many plurals. Title font is awesome, nothing says the far future like Computer typeface.
Published 1995
Ending the week with more Cats!

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • architectural framing • cat people • damsel • DAW Books • font problems • Lisanne Norman • robes • Romas Kukalis • space • space ships
Mar 29
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Cathal’s Art Direction: It’s quite simple. A flaming-winged, bikini-clad woman with a sun for a head, rising out of a lopsided cauldron. And an amazon with a flaming arrow. See if you can make the amazon lopsided too, maybe give her two left legs… Looking good!
Published 1992
Many thanks to Cathal!

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Tagged with: archery weapons • bikini • bracers • cauldron • cleavage • damsel • fire • headband • longbow • New Falcon Press • proportional issues • Robert Anton Wilson • sun • sunhead • Unknown Artist Institute • Wayne Saalman • wings • WTF
Mar 24
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Miggity’s Art Direction: Shirtless black dude in tighty whities with a space helmet and a pneumatic fishing spear gun, flanked by two white Amazonian women in see through tops giving the whole thing a weird sex vibe, with a spacecraft carrier, space figthers, four planets and sweet moon base in the foreground… PERFECT!
Published 1981
Many thanks to Miggity!

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Tagged with: author in the comments • Bantam Books • bubble helmet • cleavage • damsel • dude • gun • Lou Feck • muscles • planets • rifle • space • space ships • Steven E. McDonald • white-clothed protagonist
Mar 23
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Zycrow’s Art Direction:
“So the art director told me he needed hot air balloons and they needed to be badass. How am I going to do that?”
“Easy. Add spikes.”
“Oh, that’s good. Like how many? Three? Four?”
“All of them. All of the spikes. Oh, and a dinosaur, and some wolves. That oughta cover it.”
Published 1980
Many thanks to Zycrow!

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • cliffs • dagger • damsel • forest • Graham Diamond • gun • hot air balloons • inadequate armor • Playboy Paperbacks • spikes • strange creature • talons • Walter Velez • wings • wolf
Mar 21
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Rich Comments: I think the Black Lion may be that hair under her arm. It obviously offends Mr Swordy and he’s going to remove it in a rather dramatic fashion. What was said to the artist was something along the lines of, “Here honey, a nice new pack of crayons and don’t eat any of them. Do Mummy a nice book cover.”
Published 1979
Many thanks to Rich!

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • chains • Chris Howes • cleavage • damsel • dude • Greystoke Mobray Books • Lionel Fanthorpe • Patricia Fanthorpe • space ships • sword • Ting!
Mar 08
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MisterBOB’s Art Direction: Its magical, so it glows, right! And have some chick pointing to a unicorn. No boobs! Bums are in.
Published 1989
I’m not so sure thats a chick MisterBOB!

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • damsel • david bowie • dude • Esther Friesner • Headline books • hunkbutt • magic • Peter Elson • sword • Unicorns!
Mar 01
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Matt Comments: All randomness aside, it’s the quality of the drawing that really stands out here.
Published 1997
Many thanks to Matt!

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Tagged with: Baen Books • baldness • damsel • David Lee Anderson • dude • explosions • font problems • once you see it • perspective problems • proportional issues • shiny • shuriken of approval • Spider Robinson • WTF
Feb 25
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Art Direction: Look Moorcock’s covers are always strange. It’s like previous publishers took a handful of amphetamines before putting them to market. All we need is a big 80’s girls head floating in lots of clouds and some people on horses riding into war. No one will suspect any type of solvent abuse… well… until they read the thing!
Published 1987

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Tagged with: blimp • clouds • damsel • floating face • floating head • horses • Michael Moorcock • New English Library • once you see it • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Feb 24
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GK Comments: There must be something a lot more interesting going on to his right.
Published 1986
Many thanks to GK!

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Tagged with: Baen Books • bracers • C M Kornbluth • computers • damsel • dude • fire • font problems • Frederik Pohl • headband • hunkbutt • loincloth • muscles • spikes • Unknown Artist Institute
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