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
Aug 26
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Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Comments: Most boys go through a phase where they wish they could summon a nude She-Hulk to this world. Though most boys put more thought into the relative scale.
Published 1989

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Tagged with: bighanditis • busy hands • cleavage • damsel • embossing • fairies • font problems • Lisa Tuttle • shiny • statue • tasteful smoke • Tor Books • Unknown Artist Institute
Aug 01
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Miranda Comments: Disproportionate armed wizard holds some kind of jester-headed marital aid. Cover reads, “it could save the kingdom, and entertain at parties!”.
Published 1989

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Tagged with: Ace Books • bighanditis • bladed weapons • damsel • Dean Morrissey • dude • epic thoughts • font problems • jester • Kara Dalkey • magic • magical weapon • proportional issues • puffy shirt • sword • tattoo you • throne • tights • Wizaaaaaaaard!
May 30
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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

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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
Jan 23
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Art Direction: We all know the one thing vampires suffer from. Bighanditis! What do you mean that isn’t a thing? Of course it’s a thing, a vampire thing! Look it says right here in the book of ‘Your Pay Check’! Now, just draw some kid, in a cloak, looking like he should be in a broadway musical. And make his hands BIG!
Published 1985

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Tagged with: bighanditis • cloaks • Futura Publications • glow • moon • S. P. Somtow • Unknown Artist Institute • vampires
Aug 24
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Art Direction: We’ll have some guy looking like he’s in a furtistic space disco being attacked by a giant man with a glowing forehead. Why, you ask? Well, we all know psychic powers are clearly symbolised by a lens flare. Just like every sword is reflecting a magical light from somewhere making it go… TING!
Published 1983

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Tagged with: Andre Norton • bighanditis • bladed weapons • font problems • frickin laser beams • glow • glowing eyes • handguns • lens flare • shoulder pads • sword • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute • wired • WTF
Jan 06
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Don Comments: If you were surrounded by a tribble with fangs, Dennis the Menace, the girl from Season 1 of THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, a corpse, a skeletal alien, a streaker, a horse and an off-panel Robin Hood, you’d be all “WTF?!” too.
Published 1971
Many thanks to Don!

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Tagged with: abstraction • Ace Books • bighanditis • Claude Nunes • evil children • font problems • Haircut 100 • horses • Kelly Freas • monsters • once you see it • people • Rhoda Nunes • shortbow • strange creature • WTF
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