Nov 20
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You know what you thought? You thought, you’d seen everything anyone could possibly do with a dragon. Well, you’re wrong. Three words for you to eat today, ‘Dragons In Space’! Oh yes, and trying to decipher the controls of a space ship! I mean, dragons can read, right?
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Tagged with: Anne McCaffrey • Corgi Books • dragon • planets • space • space ships • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher • WTF
Oct 05
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Alice Comments: This worthless flashlight only illuminates ME!
Published 1966
You might remember this from here.
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Tagged with: anatomical issues • BEHIND YOU! • cleavage • crotch armor • damsel • Edgar Rice Burroughs • Four Sqaure Books • glow • Josh Kirby • necklace • strange creature
Jul 21
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Rod Comments: Killer crabs. Look, there’s a picture too. Surely this spares us having to read the shity thing?
Published 1978
I have a cream for that…. I’ll get my coat.
Many thanks to Rod!
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Tagged with: Guy N. Smith • New English Library • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute
Apr 22
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: How short can you make a man skirt? Well it better just about cover the essentials because I’m sure that’s how a legionnaire went into battle against armoured wizards with comic book red eyes peering out from their helmets.
Published 1988
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Tagged with: capes • dude • electricity • font problems • Harry Turtledove • Legend Books • magic • male skirts • muscles • sword • Unknown Artist Institute
Jun 05
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Jonathan Art Direction: The Styx? OK, we need a boat. Give the boat eyes. No, give it two sets of eyes. And some empty eye sockets. And bat wings and a frog. And a hand coming out of a skull holding a rubber spider. Oh, don’t forget the boatman needs to have the author’s face.
Published 1984
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Tagged with: author on the cover • Bluejay books • dog • embossing • figurehead • frog • I see dead people • naked people standing in boats • Rowena Morrill • Theodore Sturgeon
Mar 28
Good Show Sir comments: “Siegfried! Your cat’s bowl is empty again!”
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1988
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Tagged with: Bantam Spectra • dude • fight club • George R.R. Martin • SFBC • tigers • Walter Velez
Nov 24
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You know the two things that make everything look fantastic? Glow and blur. The best photoshop tools money can buy. So we’ll have a glowing blurry tattooed man with a wolves head! And some girl with some glowly blurry transparency around her. Make sure the title is huge and don’t forget to blur what you can.
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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Darren Hopes • fairies • glow • HarperCollins Books • magic • Melissa Marr • once you see it • strange creature • tattoo you • Unknown Artist Institute • wolf • wolf people
Nov 04
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Frank Comments: What was that about Baen book covers being like shooting fish in a barrel? These two ladies are providing way too much exposed target below the waistline for pointy and edgy devices.
Published 1992
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Tagged with: author in the comments • Baen Books • big hair • booties • damsel • Haircut 100 • Larry Elmore • moon • puffy shirt • S.M. Stirling • Shirley M. Meier • sword • the no pants dance
Nov 29
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Tom Noir Comments: La de da. Just out for a jaunty, inconspicuous stroll in my black leathers and goggles. Pay no attention to the laser blaster held awkwardly behind my back!
Published 2003
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Tagged with: Alan Dean Foster • font problems • gun • John Blackford • leather • none more black • sunglasses • Warner Aspect books
Oct 20
Good Show Sir comments: Mike Mars Blows Shit Up
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1983
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Tagged with: astronaut • bazooka • Donald A. Wollheim • Paperback Library • space ships • Ted Hanke
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