Jun 05
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Woahhh… yeah that LSD has just kicked in… SECRETARY… take this down. And by secretary I mean you sir, the man in the urinal next to me. A tomato plant… triceratops! What’s that, hand dryer elf? Yes you are right, it wouldn’t be complete unless it was multicoloured!
Published 1980 (also known as ‘A Messiah at the End of Time’)

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Tagged with: dinosaur • font problems • horns • Michael Moorcock • space ship • Star Books • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Nov 16
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MisterBob’s Art Direction: Okay, the book is called Reindeer Moon so be sure to paint a reindeer with a Moon and if you any paint left, add a floating bone with flames.
Published 1988

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Tagged with: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas • fire • Fontana Science Fiction • moon • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute
Sep 11
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Jaouad’s Art Direction: Vampires? Look, I don’t care what it’s about, just give me a lingerie model, I want boobs. Oh, and a sword.
Published 2007

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • cleavage • damsel • dude • L.A. Banks • St Martin's Press • sword • vampire • vampires • Vince Natale
Aug 16
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Jaouad’s Art Direction: This book is so awesome, there’s only one way to sell it: give it an awesome glittering metallic dustjacket, so everyone is blinded by its awesomeness. Also, make sure no one can read the author’s name.
Published 2002 or 2011

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Tagged with: Eoin Colfer • font problems • Puffin Books • shiny oh so shiny • Tony Fleetwood • WTF
Feb 22
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Phil’s Art Direction: Look, no one will guess that this book is about futuristic police, unless you paint POLICE onto the side of that hovership. While you’re at it, give that policeman an unusually large face. I hear that’s how policemen will look centuries hence.
Published 1976

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Tagged with: bubble helmet • dude • flying • frickin laser beams • gun • Panther Books • Philip K. Dick • Unknown Artist Institute
Dec 09
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Jami Comments: Me giant floating head and shoulders of Demolished Man. Me crush tiny stereotypical Hammer film type female vampire and tiny floating head version of me. Then me play with all the pretty animals and the tiny naked women. Tiny clothed men can get moon dust out of my giant ear. Me have glowy thing above knuckle. Me love glowy thing.
Published 1978
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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • capes • Cats! • damsel • dude • floating head • giraffes • Jerome Podwil • leopard • monkeys • moon • planets • Pocket Books • space • starkers • strange creature • sun • Ting! • zebras
Oct 11
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Jose Comments: Everything about this cover is perfect (in a very wrong way); a spangly shirt, a sentient cactus and a lizard with its ‘hands’ on its hips.
Published 1984

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Tagged with: Berkley Books • dude • Janet Aulisio • jazz hands • Kevin O'Donnell • lizards • McGill Feighan Series • monsters • strange creature • WTF
Sep 26
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Art Direction: You want to know what we need art minion!?! Let me tell you. The bigest TINGGGGGGGG anyone has ever seen! Make sure even the man holding his mighty sword is blinded by its awesomeness. Oh and… make sure he’s pretty much naked. Why? Well… why not? Eh?
Published 1982

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • Budy Matieson • dude • Fleuve Noir Books • muscles • sword • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute
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