Good Show Sir

Sep 17

Sarah B Comments: I’m actually quite fond of the James H. Schmitz. I’m mildly obsessed and hope to find more out in the wild to tame for my collection.
Published 1979

(Average: 4.71 out of 10)

Tagged with: Ace Books • aliens • anthropomorphism • BEHIND YOU! • Bob Adragna • bracers • cleavage • daemons • damsel • frickin laser beams • handguns • inadequate armor • James H. Schmitz • monsters • otter people • pole weapons • spear • strange creature • utility belt

Aug 22

The Probability Broach

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Mr Gorilla President! Who makes your capes... and where can we get one? Click for full image

Bob M Comments: Professor, wait! That’s not a banana! That’s NOT a banana!
Published 1980

(Average: 7.64 out of 10)

Tagged with: anthropomorphism • ape • ape people • Barney Plotkin • capes • damsel • dude • L. Neil Smith • WTF

Aug 13

Greybeard

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That's not how you eat a box of chocolates! Click for full image

Stephen Comments: Greybeard just get scarier the longer you look at it. Good book but hideous cover.
Published 1974

(Average: 8.63 out of 10)

Tagged with: anthropomorphism • baldness • bird • bird people • Brian W. Aldiss • dude • eye-yi-yi • horns • monkeys • old-timer • Panther Books • smiling animals • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • white-clothed protagonist • WTF

Aug 12

Best American Fantasy 2

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Can't sell it... might have to burn it... Click for full image

Matt Comments: Thought this might give you paws for thought (sorry…)! An interesting variation on the usual cat people.
Published 2008

(Average: 8.52 out of 10)

Tagged with: Aimee Bender • Ann VanderMeer • anthropomorphism • author in the comments • Bruce Holland Rogers • Christian Moody • David Hollander • Deborah Coates • dog people • Erik Amundsen • font problems • Jedediah Berry • Jeff VanderMeer • Jeffrey Ford • Judy Budnitz • Kage Baker • Kelly Link • leather • Matt Bell • Matthew Cheney • Micaela Morrissette • Michele Richmond • Miranda Mellis • motorcycle • Oliver Wetter • once you see it • Peter S. Beagle • Rachel Swirsky • Rick Moody • strange creature • waistcoat • WTF

Jul 30

Universe 5

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It is ... my ultimate art! I call it... a catue! Click for full UNSHEEPED image

Tom Hering Comments: In a land where sculptures flaunt and crumble, one statue comes to life: cat girl! Little does she know, however, that life means nothing but the sight of a bug, and the sight of a bug brings sadness and withdrawal. Oh pathos! Oh cat girl!
Published 1976

(Average: 7.26 out of 10)

Tagged with: anthropomorphism • busy hands • cat people • cleavage • devil's dumplings • Edgar Pangborn • F.M. Busby • flying heads • font problems • Fritz Leiber • Gene Wolfe • George Alec Effinger • Good Show Sir • Hilary Bailey • hunkbutt • insects • J.J. Russ • Kris Neville • Michael Reaves • Mildred Downey Broxon • muscles • Patrick Woodroffe • people with animals for heads • Popular Library • proportional issues • Sir Mix-A-Lot • space sheep • statue • Stephen Goldin • strange creature • Ursula K. Le Guin • wings • wraparound cover • WTF • yellow number five

May 30

At All Costs

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Sara S Comments: This cover has everything. The cat-being is looking out at the reader as if to say, ‘How do you humans like it when we dangle something in front of YOU and then snatch it away, huh?’ The cherry on top of it all is the title artist who thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if the preposition ‘at’ didn’t line up with any of the other words on the cover?!
Published 2005

(Average: 7.21 out of 10)

Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Baen Books • bighanditis • cat people • damsel • David Mattingly • David Weber • evil children • explosion • font problems • Good Show Sir • once you see it • planets • proportional issues • shoulder pads • space ships

May 29

The Cave Girl

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! He's got a comb over!! Click for full image

Tom Hering Comments: From St. John to Krenkel to Frazetta to this. The most egregious example I’ve ever seen of a publisher using an amateur artist to save a little money.
Published 1977

(Average: 8.63 out of 10)

Tagged with: anthropomorphism • busy hands • call 555-orthodontic-emergency • caveman • cleavage • damsel • Edgar Rice Burroughs • loincloth • mullet • proportional issues • Tandem Books • Unknown Artist Institute • volcano

May 24

French Mega Post 2

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Yes!! May is so full of UK Bank Holidays which means only one thing… which the world eagerly awaits… a special Good Show Sir post!

Today I bring you a French Mega Post! Sent in by the wonderful Cedric *coughs* two years ago… So I am just posting them now. Maybe it has something to do with me currently visiting Paris with le wonderful Tag Wizard. So watch out, French bookshops! We’ll be looking for more!

Enjoy the post and to those in the UK that get a long weekend, I hope you enjoy it!

Fly around like that... you're going to get crazy locals checking you out! Click for full UNSHEEPED image

Cedric Comments: The blue bird with rainbow wings and of course bare breasts (the marketing dept. strikes again) is already wonderful but what takes this cover to a higher level is the man at the bottom left, staring at the bird with a WTF look on his face. Beautiful.
Published 1982

These dudes don't even have any catnip... lets go... Click for full image

Cedric Comments: I can’t help but think the tiger and his friend the very stern bear keep bitching about their colleagues in the back, the hippo and his friend the fox (hyena? other strange mammal?).
Published 1983, available in English as “The Battle of Forever”

Nope... I really preferred when the giant gorilla attacked it... lets get it back in place! Click for full image

Cedric Comments: Fireworks! Giant face of a woman! Building with an antenna that goes straight into the aforementioned lady’s right nostril!
Published 1980, originally “Ein Komet fallt vom Himmel”

(Average: 8.00 out of 10)

Tagged with: A.E. van Vogt • aliens • anthropomorphism • bear people • bird people • cat people • cleavage • damsel • devil's dumplings • Fleuve Noir Books • Futurama Books • Heinz G. Konsalik • Heinz Gunther Konsalik • Lionel Rex • Maurice d'Escrignelles • Maurice Limat • Maurice Lionel • MEGA POST • metropolitan apocalypse • moon • planets • Pocket Books • space sheep • space ships • space suit • spectacular space chart • tiger people • wings • WTF

May 20

The Girl from the Emeraline Island

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The thing about Scottish Terrier People... a bit gropey... Click for full image

Piper Comments: Coughed-up hairball or sad attempt at a wookiee?
Published 1984

(Average: 6.83 out of 10)

Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • anthropomorphism • baldy bad man • damsel • dog people • evil • landscape face • Linda Benson • Robert S. Blum • strange creature • utility belt • WTF

May 03

Japanese Mega Post

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It’s another bank holiday weekend and that can only mean one thing for us here at Good Show Sir! Party time! Or possibly just the cinema and a few beers, which might be a party… to some people.

These covers have been sent in by the very excellent Saxy Stevenson who found them while in Nepal. Hope you enjoy them, as for the published dates… ummm can anyone here read Japanese?

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Excuse me, do you mind!?! We're... well actually you don't want to know what we're about to do... Click for full image