May 02
Click for full imageSffgeek Comments: I would like to suggest an additional category – covers using stock images completely irrelevant to the book’s content.
Published 1970
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Click for full imageGood Show Sir Comments: Flying saucers or pith helmets? Which do you see?
Published 2015
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Jan 18
Tom Noir Comments:
“Hey Sven!”
“Ya Lars?”
“Let’s put Darth Vader øn the cøver of this bøøk.”
“But Sven, we will get sued!”
“No we wøn’t, Lars, we’re Swedish!”
“Ha ha, yøu’re right!”
(Both together) “Børk! Børk Børk! Let’s gø have some meatballs.”
Published 1980
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Dec 09
Click for full imageJohn Comments: There isn’t a joke I could make that would trump the description on the back – “The wife of a powerful figure in CA is found brutally murdered in the couple’s lonely mountain retreat. Wesley Stoneham made certain that all the evidence concerning the murderer of his wife pointed to a nearby hippie community. He had 3 goals in mind: to get rid of his wife, to drive out the hippie commune, and to enhance his own power in the state. He was at the point of achieving them all when Garnna, from the peaceful planet of Zartic finally made contact with Debby, a hippie from the commune, who had problems of her own. Then, Stoneham’s troubles began.” OF COURSE I BOUGHT THIS RIGHT AWAY!
Published 1975
Many thanks to John!
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Nov 07
Click for double-sized imageCharles Comments: 100% more girlfriend, 50% more boobs.
Published 1974
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Mar 13
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Click for larger imageIt’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Müller-What-The-Fokker Goings-on
#1 Tat Wood’s Art Direction: “Look, we’re late to this whole Cyberpunk thing but I’ve got the rights to a book about a guy being stored as data. It was published twenty years ago but we can kid the nerds into thinking it’s hip and fresh. It’s a comedy but for Chrissake don’t let on.”
#2 Good Show Sir Comments: Tat lays down the challenge, but I say you can never beat the first edition. Those hardcover publishers only hire the best artists.
Published 1990, 1970
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Jun 06
Click for larger imageTracy Comments: Figure drawing class? Who needs that?
Published 2002
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Jan 01
Happy New Year!
So, just wanted to do a little sum up of a few of the best covers we have posted and some personal favourites of the Good Show Sir staff. Just kidding, we don’t have staff, more like some sort of trained animal that has been taught how to sit correctly and not bite the children.
First, just a couple of thanks. To Justin Leego who faithfully does all the tags for the covers, finds out who the artist is and corrects any spelling/grammer errors I make about six hours after I post it. And to CSA, who endured an entire afternoon with me searching through the shelves of three second hand book shops over Christmas. We have quite the collection of covers to add to the site!
And thanks again to those who visit us here. We love to hear from anyone who comes along, so feel free to comment and you will be welcomed with sarcastic undertones!
One of our favourite covers:
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Click for orginal postPersonal Favourite:
Click for orginal postMost under-rated cover, as voted for by CSA:
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Oct 11
Click for full imageDon’s Art Direction: We don’t want this cover to just jump out at you, we want it to stab you in the eyes with a hot-pink icepick. And our dictionary defines “hermaphrodite” as “bored bloke with major addictions to mousse and Manic Panic”.
Published 1992
Many thanks to Don!
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Mar 12
Art direction: So, I want a couple of flying kids coming at each other with swords.Have them in some sort of orbital dome around an exploding world. Oh, oh, and have the swords electrified!
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