Oct 17
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Bibliomancer’s Art Direction: I want a picture that will be timeless. Like a mash-up of Peter Max meets Chairman Mao. Art like that will never go out of style. Now give me another foot-long pill and leave me alone. I’ve got a lot of art-making to do!
Published 1970
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Tagged with: Ace Books • antennae • baldness • bighanditis • bumhead • dude • gun • Kim Whitesides • paging John Galliano • Philip K. Dick • proportional issues • suits you • wraparound cover • WTF
Oct 11
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Frank Comments: It’s a decent painting of a scene in the story, but there’s plenty uncovered boobs involved even if they’re small and not so obviously nipply. Have you got enough Space Sheep for this sort of situation?
Published 1978
That’s a lot of Space Sheep!
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Tagged with: A. Bertram Chandler • booties • chucky the evil toy doll • DAW Books • devil's dumplings • dwarf • Good Show Sir • gun • H.R. Van Dongen • jumpsuit • once you see it • porthole • space sheep • space ships
Oct 10
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: I don’t know… just draw something… make it odd… actually make it so odd no one will have a clue what’s going on!
Published 1969
Many thanks to Darren!
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Tagged with: abstraction • bladed weapons • electricity • fire • I'm melting! • lava • Panther Books • skeletons • strange creature • tattoo you • Theodore Sturgeon • Unicorns! • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Oct 09
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Dead Stuff with Big Teeth Comments: Unable to nail Soapman to his chair, Throckmorton suspended him next to his brother in a tube of mineral oil.
Published 2003
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Tagged with: Baen Books • dude • Eric Flint • font problems • Keith Laumer • muscles • nonsensical shadows • perspective problems • proportional issues • Richard Martin • starkers • stasis tubes • statuesque
Oct 08
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Tom Noir Comments: With a sinking heart, Brad realized their skin-tight glam-rock outfits would not be an effective disguise in the forest.
Published 2007
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Tagged with: aliens • ant people • cyclops • damsel • David Drake • dinosaur • dude • font problems • forest • frickin laser beams • handguns • once you see it • shoulder pads • teleport • tights • Tor Books • Wayne Barlowe
Oct 07
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Tom Hering Comments: Chapter One, paragraph one – “Outside the bedroom window rain dripped steadily from the tall Douglas firs. Isobel Dempster did not have to raise the blinds and look out to know what kind of a day it was. It was wet. It was the first day of June, when the whole world should be bright and sunny, but not the Skagit Valley in the state of Washington. Here it was wet. It was wet here yesterday and would be wet tomorrow, and barring some miracle it would be wet next week too.”
Published 1975
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Tagged with: ax-wielding • bandito • BEHIND YOU! • bladed weapons • blunt weapons • bottle • damsel • dude • epic conflict • exposed brain • Gary Bradner • Good Show Sir • gun • handguns • jeans and a t-shirt • mallet • mighty moustache • nonsensical shadows • once you see it • rope • sombrero hat • space brain • stallone pose • sweaterworld • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF • Zebra Books
Oct 03
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Jumpsuits… my friend… they are the future. Running, walking, swimming, investigating giant alien blob space ships with your laser ray gun… what can’t you do in one? Practical, unless you need the toilet…
Published 1979
Many thanks to Sarah B!!
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Tagged with: Ace Books • aliens • BEHIND YOU! • Bob Adragna • booties • catsuit • cleavage • damsel • font problems • frickin laser beams • Haircut 100 • James H. Schmitz • jumpsuit • proportional issues • ray gun • tentacles
Oct 01
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Andrea Comments: I get that the artist was trying to convey the strangeness of this world, but she didn’t have to shove so many characters awkwardly together on the page. The guy sitting up on the bed is seriously going to dislocate his shoulder. And on the back cover, there’s the world’s world 80s hair metal outfit (fur legwarmers and matching vest, with bare chest and sandals!)
Published 1982, aka ‘Geta’
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • booties • bracers • damsel • Donald Kingsbury • dude • furs • Haircut 100 • muscles • once you see it • Rowena Morrill • tattoo you • Timescape Books • turbans • waistcoat • weird pecs • wraparound cover
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