Good Show Sir

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Good Show Sir Comments: This cover is so shiny that everything looks black unless you photograph it at the right angle. And then you notice that everything is embossed. The title is embossed. The authors are embossed. The car is embossed. The horse head is embossed. The fox-girl is embossed. It’s like bad cover art Braille for the blind.
Published 1994

(Average: 8.09 out of 10)

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Frank Comments: For some reason I find it difficult to focus on the title text. I wonder if that’s to keep me focused on the cover art?
Published 2002

(Average: 7.09 out of 10)

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Tom Noir Comments: When I said I wanted a New Model Army this is NOT what I had in mind.
Published 1970

(Average: 6.89 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: And now on the BBC, everyone’s favourite children’s cartoon, The Magic Evil Clown Devil Ghost Funny Crocodile Man. Warning, some viewers may find that certain scenes scar them for life.
Published 1967

Many thanks to Darren T for sending this in!

(Average: 8.51 out of 10)

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Frank Comments: I get the idea the artist read the teaser on the first page, “WHAT’S SO SPLENDID ABOUT WESTERN CULTURE THAT YOU WANT TO SPREAD IT ALL OVER THE GALAXY? I TELL YOU THERE’S SOMETHING ON TRIOPUS THAT CAN NEVER BE REMADE.” …and painted something that you probably wouldn’t want to remake even if you could.
Published 1969

(Average: 7.09 out of 10)

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Wes’ Art Direction:

Editor – “Look I’ve gotta hang up. The cover just needs to have the authors’ names, then ‘The Web’ in a subtle font and 2027 undern-”
Graphic Designer – “What? Sorry, your signal’s breaking up again I can’t..”
Editor – “I said put THE! WEB!! and TWENTY-TWENTY-SEVEN on it!!!… ah crap i dropped my cigar, now my chair’s ON FIRE!!”

Published 1999

(Average: 6.36 out of 10)

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MisterBOB’s Art Direction: One hot chick with boobs on show and her two angry brothers.
Published 1987

(Average: 6.31 out of 10)

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Matthew Comments: I remember the TV programme of this being pretty scary…
Published 1976

(Average: 6.33 out of 10)

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Ian’s Art Direction: Did you see the cover that came back from the artist? It’s full of crotches! Crotches! I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay that idiot to fix it. See if you can get an intern in here to cover them up with oblong stickers or smudges or something. Make it look natural.
Published 1973

(Average: 5.40 out of 10)

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NGpm Comments: This is one busy cover. Why does the dragon-saurus have a blue and red aura? Is the horse fireproof? You know this dragon’s dynamite: “look at the bones, man!” Overall the art isn’t bad, but the typography and that blurb about the Newberry is just so awkward.
Published 1986

(Average: 5.40 out of 10)

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