May 14
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Stevyn Comments: I’m ashamed to say that I was the artist in this case. A terrible cover for what is possibly the worst fantasy book ever written.
And with such great lines in this book such as, ‘The effeminate albino pursed his thick lips in that certain way to suggest he was male, but homosexual.’
Read more about this on Stevyn’s website here: http://stevyncolgan.blogspot.com/2008/07/you-really-must-take-vista-be-vigil.html
Good Show Sir! Thank you for sending this in.

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Tagged with: Aaron Jones • cloaks • dude • gibberish title • Stephen Moryk Colgan • strange creature • WTF
Mar 02
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So lets say we have a black man and I really mean black. We’ll have him dressed in white skin, with nipples, because without the nipples it would just look strange. I am sure we can fob it off as social commentary. As long as we have the nipples.

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Tagged with: Coronet Science Fiction books • Dominic Flandry Series • dude • Poul Anderson • statuesque • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Jul 06
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Corwin Comments: Where to start… A truly wretched color scheme with a bright pink neon title, two title fonts that go in four different directions. Then the rest of the cover is way too busy including a blue shark, a green sub with pink polka dots, and a man hole cover. And lest we forget, the story has a computerized Ayn Rand as one of its characters.
Published 1998
Flying shark!
Many thanks to Corwin.

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Tagged with: "a novel" • explosion • fire • Matt Ruff • shark • strange creature • submarine • Unknown Artist Institute • Warner Aspect books • WTF
Jul 30
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GK’s Art Direction: I need this cover by 5 o’clock! Just go out and take a picture of something!
Published 1969
AHHH! Kill it! Kill it!
Many thanks to GK!

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Tagged with: Ace Books • Barry N. Malzberg • bird people • Gray Morrow • John T. Phillifent • K.M. O'Donnell • Kelly Freas • Panos Koutrouboussis • strange creature • uniforms • WTF
Oct 24
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Charles Comments: No doubt retitled “Colin Wilson and The Sorcerer’s Stone” for the US edition.
Published 1974

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Tagged with: Bob Fowke • Colin Wilson • dino-mites • eye-yi-yi • fire-breathing • flying saucer • head • Panther Books • rocks • WTF
Feb 05
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Scott B’s Art Direction: We don’t want anyone to confuse this with the film “Labyrinth” which has just recently been released, so put something on there that nobody will mix up with that. Ah, how about a rooster-bear pondering deep thoughts? That’s the stuff.
Published 1989

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Tagged with: Ace Books • anthropomorphism • bear • bear people • Dennis Schmidt • mohawk • planets • Rowena Morrill • space • strange creature
Jul 04
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Art Direction: Hey remember that time I had too many of those strawberry “stickers.” It was hilarious, I was all like, ‘OH GWAD help me! I’m fading into another world!’ Lets just draw that, expect, miss out the parts with my genitals. Keep the moustache though…
Published 1980

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Tagged with: Adrian Chesterman • dude • geometric oddities • Good Show Sir • Isidore Haiblum • mighty moustache • Penguin Science Fiction • WTF
Feb 27
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Benjamin Comments: “Listen, if this book sells more than 30 copies it’ll be a miracle. It’s done up in a strawberry-ice-cream-pink cover with a bright green toy rocket ship and some cheap plaster busts of LBJ and JFK and a coke bottle and a hamburger on the front — I showed it to a classroom full of gifted children up at the College of Marin and one kid said ‘That’s a toy book.'” – Richard A. Lupoff (Locus #159, 1974)
Published 1974

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Tagged with: bad science • Barry N. Malzberg • damsel • dude • explosion • Good Show Sir • Pocket Books • political figure • space ships • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Jul 03
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Good Show Sir Comments: Some people pay big money to get dragon lips like that!
Published 1981 (maybe)
Many thanks to Kyrre!

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Tagged with: C.S. Lewis • dragon • GYLDENDAL NORSK FORLAG • mouse people • strange creature • teeth • Unknown Artist Institute
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