Jun 12
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Dead Stuff With Big Teeth’s Art Direction: For our new erotic historical fantasy…what does the name “Dark Enchantment” suggest to you? Purple… and… pointy! EXACTLY! So fetch us a shot of Brad, with a lightbulb pressed up against his face, and purple it up. Oh, and add a mansion under the lightbulb. Preferably that one where the lighting is coming head-on.
Published 2004

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Tagged with: Dell Books • dude • font problems • Franco Accornero • Karen Harbaugh
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
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
May 21
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Scott Comments: After seeing the comment on “Behind the Walls of Terra” about “the REAL story behind ‘Gone With The Wind’,” well, I think we might have that story right here. What it is? I am now somewhat curious…
Published 1977

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Tagged with: Ace Books • aliens • bladed weapons • daggers • Don Ivan Punchatz • font problems • handguns • masks • moon • Robert Silverberg • WTF
May 10
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Jaouad’s Art Direction: We’re going a bit more classy for this one. Everyone always only looks at the boobs, right? Well, not this time! This cover is going to be about ears. Elf ears. On a lion.
Published 2012

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Tagged with: Baen Books • BEHIND YOU! • bladed weapons • capes • cleavage • Clyde Caldwell • daggers • damsel • font problems • Kencyrath series • lion • once you see it • P.C. Hodgell • puffy shirt • strange creature
May 03
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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Tagged with: alien • anthropomorphism • booties • bracers • cat people • damsel • dude • explosion • floating face • font problems • Good Show Sir • helmet • inadequate armor • jumpsuit • leopard people • lizard people • lizards • magic • MEGA POST • mist • monsters • moon • mouse people • once you see it • peaked cap • planets • rodents • space • space ships • strange creature • tentacles • Tokyo Hayakawa Books • Unknown Artist Institute • utility belt • wall face • WTF
Apr 25
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Sarah J Comments: Zombie squirrel head people, plus inflatable attention getting thing, hang out at Sarnath: Bokrug the detestable water lizard looks on.
Published 1971

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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • Bokrug the Water Lizard • castle • font problems • Gervasio Gallardo • H.P. Lovecraft • landscape face • lizards • moon • omnibus • skulls a-poppin' • strange creature • wraparound cover • WTF
Apr 24
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Tom H writes: The manuscript Brunner submitted was called The Dermatologists of Yech!, but Ace felt it sounded too much like another of his titles.
Published 1972
Thanks Tom!

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Tagged with: Ace Books • balls • font problems • John Brunner • Josh Kirby • non-papillial person • planets • WTF
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