Jul 26
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Carolyn Comments: You can probably analyze this better than I! I assume the artist just read the jacket blurb.
Published 1977
“Imagine: Gorilla-shaped bismuth junkies who stack their dead ancestors like cordwood in the living room; gentle souls who can touch with a touch or a thought. A throwback fiefdom on a planet where huge poisonous bats rule the night sky, where serpents the size of semi-trailers slither though the rotting jungle. A sarcastic mansized beetle that’s a Talmudic scholar and swears like a longshoreman. And claims to be immortal. All in a life’s work for Otto McGavin: Prime Operator for the TBII, undercover guardian of the rights of aliens and humans under the Confederacion.”
Mmm… uhh… seriously? That snake doesn’t look too happy.
Outstanding! Good Show Carolyn!
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Tagged with: animals with faces • clouds • dragon • dude • Good Show Sir • hunkbutt • Joe Haldeman • lizards • Paul Stinson • skulls a-poppin' • snake • St Martin's Press • starkers • strange creature • sun • wings • WTF
Jan 29
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It was my late teens and I was studying hard at some top notch university. Then came the LSD and it was all, floating semi translucent men surrounded by magical orbs in a forest being watched by unicorns. I suppose that has something to do with the world of cats, right?
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Tagged with: Ace Books • dude • E.T. Steadman • magic • magical orbs • muscles • teleport • Unicorns! • Will Shetterly
Sep 24
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A kids’ book? Well you know what kids love: FONTS, terrible fonts – gold outline! Give me: people animals… that’s right, I want a man weasel, man mouse, man rabbit and man mole all on there. Uh, best not make it too cutesy though, give the weasel a bow and arrow.
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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • archery weapons • bladed weapons • Brian Jacques • Chris "Fangorn" Baker • font problems • longbow • mouse people • rabbit people • Red Fox Books • Redwall series • rodents • shiny • ships • stoat people • strange creature • sword
Aug 30
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Bruno’s Art Direction:
Setting – barren Mars landscape, red clouds.
Foreground – grinning shark in regal purple robes.
Background – Minotaur-ish creature with spear hauling vaguely human shape.
Perfect!
Published 2009
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Tagged with: Amos Daragon Series • anthropomorphism • Bryan Perro • Good Show Sir • horns • minotaur • Perro Books • shark people • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Jan 23
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Joachim Comments: In case you didn’t notice, there’s a purple fetus in anamnioticplastic bag above my melting face.
Published 1968
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Tagged with: crucifix • damsel • David Davies • half a face • I'm melting! • Philip K. Dick • Sphere Books • WTF
Dec 03
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Dead Stuff with Big Teeth Comments: Upset that only the City Watch showed up to her Confirmation, Melody pisses the Pleiades.
Published 2001
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Tagged with: ax-wielding • bladed weapons • cleavage • damsel • dude • font problems • inadequate armor • Luis Royo • magic • statue • sword • Tor Books
Dec 06
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Frank Comments: Just in case the title and its placement aren’t edgy enough, it’s backed up by cover art that should push it over the edge into WTF.
Published 1995
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Tagged with: damsel • font problems • Jim Warren • lizards • Michael Green • Pocket Books • strange creature • WTF
Nov 24
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Simon Comments: Not only does the illustration not match the fairy-tale quality of the title (not to mention the story), it does not look like the kind of thing you’d find at a library booksale, where I saw it, and where I was urged by my sister to buy it on the grounds that you can never have too many copies of this book, especially one as bizarre as this.
Publication 1974
I give this two Ronnies!
Many thanks to Simon.
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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • bird hairdo • cleavage • damsel • font problems • starkers • strange creature • Ted Coconis • William Goldman • WTF
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