Dec 17
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Artist: What ya want chief?
Art Director: Ever seen a baby staring at bright flashing colours or the TV? Well draw that type of face! Except floating disembodied through space.
Artist: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit taking amphetamines.
Published 1990
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Tagged with: baldness • baldy bad man • daemons • evil children • galaxies • Gollancz Books • John Higgins • Orbit Books • Richard Cowper • space • WTF
Jun 01
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Phil’s Art Direction: We don’t want people thinking he’s odd just because he’s tall and thin, so let’s have someone else tall and thin in the background. Then give him really odd hair.
Many thanks to Phil!
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Tagged with: damsel • dude • Galaxy Science Fiction • Olaf Stapledon • snow and ice • starkers
Jun 06
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Joachim Comments: Old man breasts, stump hands, back slug, purple eggs, fanged man baby chillin’ out in one of the purple eggs while a snake bites…
Published 1976
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Tagged with: beard-wielding • egg • evil children • lion people • Panther Books • Philip José Farmer • strange creature • WTF
Jul 19
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Frank Comments: I just thought it was cute because it was another Campbell Award nomination and the artist put a nude girl on the cover, even if it was tasteful back-side nudity.
Published 1995
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Tagged with: Bantam Books • damsel • Donato Giancola • font problems • people in bottles • strange creature • Tricia Sullivan
Mar 25
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What if we go for something that’s kind of a cross between art and an eighties music video? We’ll have flaming eye balls and some women with retro make-up playing with her magical sticks. Then just pack any text at the top and if we can, make it like an ancient scroll banner. Classy.
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Tagged with: Ace Books • BEHIND YOU! • damsel • dude • eye-yi-yi • fire • font problems • Gary Ruddell • Janet Morris • magic • once you see it • scrolls • Thieves' World series
May 07
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OK, I’m spinning my cover creator wheel and its landed on, volcano… good. Spin again… horse-riding knight. OK, I’m throwing the action dice and it’s landed on… being eaten, nice. Another spin… T-REX, sounds awesome! In the background we will have a… prison wall and… a guard post.
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Tagged with: anatomical issues • artist in the comments • Baen Books • bladed weapons • David Mattingly • dinosaur • Eric Flint • fortress • horses • knights • lava • Marilyn Kosmatka • once you see it • shuriken of approval • surprised dinosaur • surprised horse • sword • time travel • volcano
Apr 15
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Joachim Comments: Despite the pluralized ‘horse’ in the title, a naked redhead is far more important to include perched on “top” of the asteroid.
Published 1970
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Tagged with: asteroid • Bill Hughes • Charles E. Fritch • cleavage • damsel • horses • planets • Powell Books • space • strange creature
Apr 12
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Durbin Comments: This is actually a pretty decent book. It’s the story of a golden sorceress dragon and a male cellist who battle an evil dragon in the Sierra Nevada mountains. There are no skateboards, blonde girls, rainbow dragons, Valley girl fashions, or palm trees. There is, however, a passing mention of cats.
Published 1990
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Tagged with: Ace Books • damsel • dragon • font problems • Good Show Sir • Haircut 100 • lizards • Rowena Morrill • strange creature • Thorarinn Gunnarsson • WTF
Jul 12
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Art Direction: We need something that really gets across the feeling of time travel. So, in other words I mean a naked gladiator takes on a Boeing 737. And by naked I just having him at some strange angle so we can’t see his bum crack or giblets. I know, I’m no fun.
Published 1980
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Tagged with: aeroplanes • bladed weapons • dude • hunkbutt • monument • muscles • Pan Books • Richard Ben Sapir • starkers • Terry Oakes • WTF
Feb 23
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Nothinggets the attention ofwomen more than standing in the midst of an ice cavern with little clothes and showing off your bare chest. Holding your short sword in an inspiring way while standing by your Viking boat sleigh. That’s right. A boat sleigh.
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • Boris Vallejo • cloaks • damsel • dude • Eric Iverson • Gerin the Fox series • Harry Turtledove • muscles • sword • Trojan Books
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