Oct 22
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In the future pilots won’t just be piloting boring old planes or space ships. No! They’ll be piloting space scooters! Retro space scooters!! Going from space station to station, wearing their retro spacesuits and carrying their cargo of little blue blobs with little tentacles. No? Well, just draw it and hopefully it will come true by 2010.
Thanks to Dave K!

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Tagged with: damsel • dragon • Dragon books • Laura J. Mixon • Omni Odyssey series • once you see it • planets • space • space brain • space ships • tentacles • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Oct 21
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Here you go boss, we’ve spent all weekend on this. It’s called “sea”, right? Well, what do we love under the sea? Mermaids of course! With long hair and large… fins. And what else could we grab people’s attention with? An underwater dragon!!! Booo yeah!!! Just tell me how that doesn’t make perfect sense!?! No boss, you don’t actually have to answer that…

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Tagged with: Baen Books • cleavage • Clyde Caldwell • damsel • dragon • Duke Edmund Talbolt series • font problems • John Ringo • mermaid • modesty-preserving hair • shuriken of approval
Oct 20
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What we shouldn’t have is something like ships exploding covering most of the front cover as some four armed goblins fire a cannon. And some blonde women holding her gun as she surveys the scene. Then the title and authors in huge fonts! THEN quotes from reviews just in case we think it’s not busy enough! That’s what we shouldn’t have guys. Right, guys? …Right?

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Tagged with: Baen Books • cannon • Captain March series • damsel • David Weber • explosion • goblins • gun • John Ringo • loincloth • monstrous humanoid • once you see it • Patrick Turner • ships • sword
Oct 14
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BONUS Hi-Res Image!
Suitable for framing to hang in your man-cave.
Good Show Sir Art Direction: You know what type of reader suffers in the world of sci-fi/fantasy? Men! We need something for the men! So just put a redhead vampire chick with a huge rack right there on the front cover, holding her shotgun. It’s about time that we have something men can enjoy unlike those, dragons, swords, guns, lasers…….space ships…..oh…

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Tagged with: Baen Books • candles • Chris Csejthe series • cleavage • Clyde Caldwell • damsel • gun • leather • once you see it • skeletons • skulls a-poppin' • strapping outfit • sunglasses • vampire • Wm. Mark Simmons
Oct 07
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I want you to listen to me, very carefully! Wolf howls up to the sky while a dragon flies in the background with a knight on its back. Again in the foreground a bowl cut man stands, his hand grasped firmly and suggestively around his sword. If you want to see your family again you will draw what I tell you.

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Tagged with: bird • bladed weapons • damsel • dragon • knights • puffy shirt • Robin Hobb • Stephen Youll • sword • The Farseer series • waistcoat • wolf
Oct 02
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I need sci-fi mixed in with something suggestive! Yeah baby!! I am talking about tight space suits that make you wonder how they ever got into them. Huge racks and huge packs, if you know what I mean! Guns shaped suggestively like a… you know… *giggles* Whatever you do don’t mess it up with something like giving the women a perm. Are you listening to me?

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Tagged with: Baen Books • bubble helmet • cleavage • computers • damsel • dude • frickin laser beams • Haircut 100 • ill-fitting spacesuit • Jerry Pournelle • Larry Elmore • moon • once you see it • planets • shuriken of approval • space • suggestive • super soakers
Sep 29
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So I climbed over the mountain peak and made my way through the snow storm. I was close to death and feared I may never see another living soul again. Then I stumbled on the temple, and the great master. There he leaned forward from his mediation. Placing a single flower petal in my hand he whispered, ‘shoulder pads’. It changed my life.

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Tagged with: Baen Books • damsel • dude • gun • Jon & Lobo series • Mark L. Van Name • once you see it • paging John Galliano • shoulder pads • space ships • Stephen Hickman
Sep 28
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In my life time, I’ve seen dragons vs lasers, dragons vs swords, even dragons vs man-tigers. Where haven’t we gone you ask? Well my dear friend, let me but whisper these words into your ear and pray they don’t start to bleed with pleasure. Dragons vs Concordes! That’s right, with shoulder pads and eighties hair cuts!

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Tagged with: Baen Books • damsel • dragon • dude • goblet • Haircut 100 • Jon & Lobo series • Mark L. Van Name • shoulder pads • Stephen Hickman • throne
Sep 25
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Excuse me, Sir, there is a phone call for you.
Art Director: Is it ready?
Mysterious caller: It’s more glorious than you could ever imagine.
Art Director: You remembered the…
Mysterious caller: Vampire, Minotaur, Robot, Damsel, Roman man in toga with sword, Angel and death star?
Art Director: Don’t forget Saberhagen.. he must be in there to! Mu hahahahahahaaha!
Mysterious caller: MU hahahahahahahaahhahaaha
Art Director: No… only I may laugh! Mu hahahaahahahah!
Mysterious caller: ………………………

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • author on the cover • Baen Books • BEHIND YOU! • Berserkers series • bladed weapons • Boris Brazil series • damsel • Dracula series • explosion • Fred Saberhagen • Good Show Sir • knights • Lost Sword series • minotaur • omnibus • robots • sword • the pencil is mightier than the sword • toga • vampire • wings
Sep 22
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I’m not one to stray from tradition. I’m talking about a dragon in the background, as black as…. uh… AC/DC? Peering at our antagonist will be a huge white wolf and her damsel companion holding the tiniest of flames. Remember, I am also talking traditional proportions here, so make sure nothing is sized relative to anything else. Now who’s up for some Hells’ Bells?

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Tagged with: anatomical issues • bladed weapons • daggers • damsel • dragon • fire • Firekeeper Saga series • Jane Lindskold • Julie Bell • Tor Books • wolf
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