Mar 04
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Art Direction: You know what I see this book about a clairvoyant having visions of murders to be compared to? The movie Fame! So we’ll have the title, with that brilliant font, above something like a giant bat and a shadowy figure onlooking. Can’t you just feel the symbolism?
Published 1986
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Tagged with: Dean R. Koontz • dude • font problems • Star Books • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Mar 02
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Amy Comments: I wish this snap had turned out better but I was getting suspicious glances from the clerk at the bookstore. At any rate, high focus is not entirely necessary to appreciate a fat, be-earringed red Troll doll brandishing a sword whilst riding on an anatomically challenged horse floating above a cloud in front of an angry sun. Winds of Limbo indeed. Also, it says Moorcock *snigger*
Published 1974
WHAT?!?
Many thanks to Amy!
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • horses • Mayflower Books • Michael Moorcock • Mind Implosion • surprised horse • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
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 28
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Scot’s Art Direction: A glowing guy in a suit with a dragon-shadow faces off in a forest against a menacing bunch of… elves? Orcs? No, done to death. How about a bunch of musical instruments?
Published 1986
Many thanks to Scot!
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Tagged with: Bantam Books • dragon • dude • music • R.A. MacAvoy • Todd Shorr • 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
Feb 23
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Corwin Comments: The first time I saw this cover, I couldn’t take my off off it for at least 5 minutes in macabre fascination. The art work is amazingly detailed, right down to the untied shoe laces. Even so, three car wrecks, a space ship, and an alligator make for quite a combination with Jeff Martini and Katherine “Kitty” Katt.
Published 2010
Might be comedy, but I can’t resist a space alligator!
Many thanks to Corwin!
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Tagged with: damsel • Daniel Dos Santos • DAW Books • dude • Gini Koch • gun • space • strange creature
Feb 22
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Tim Comments: Hot babe fairy queen, standing on slime-mold covered stairway to nowhere. Add in super-wussy fairy dude, you gotta feel for him, they put him in quite possibly the worst costume of all time. And the photo doesn’t do justice to the garishness of the blue background and orange border. And of course lots of different fonts.
Published 1985
Many thanks to Tim!
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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • border • Chronicles of Thomas Covenant • damsel • Darrell K. Sweet • Del Rey Books • dude • font problems • Stephen R. Donaldson
Feb 21
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MisterBob Comments: Look darling, there be tentacles! But what about my little alien baby, maybe cat nanny can stay behind and continue to look bored.
Published 1984
Many thanks to MisterBob!
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • anthropomorphism • Ballantine Books • Barclay Shaw • cat people • damsel • dude • Marcia J. Bennett • planets • robes • shiny • strange creature • WTF
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