Good Show Sir

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Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Comments: I want to take the art director, grab him firmly by the shoulders, shake him like salad dressing and shout into his face, ‘TOO HARD! TOO BLOODY HARD! YOU ARE TRYING TOO BLOODY HARD!’ But that’s not allowed, is it?
Published 1985

(Average: 7.14 out of 10)

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Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Comments: Christ…he’s not doing that party trick with the jam buns, is he?
Published 1995 (maybe)

(Average: 7.54 out of 10)

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Monkey Comments: Remarkably, all of this features in the story. Flying cars! Flying people! Alligator!
Published 1987

(Average: 7.40 out of 10)

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Tom Noir Comments: And that bit right there is his, um, Little Widowmaker.
Published 1998

(Average: 7.86 out of 10)

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Dead Stuff With Big Teeth comments: Theodore Sturgeon’s plan was to explain everything about the novel, except the cover. And no, that is not a huge obnoxious lens flare or an errant price tag.
Published 1983

(Average: 6.35 out of 10)

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Frank Comments: Saw this at the Friends of the Library sale where I volunteer, and remembered one of my brothers had a copy of it when I was very young. I remember being very creeped out by the image of the stuffing coming out of the open head. And they did it again on the back cover!
Published 1962

Yes, Twilight Zone is a franchise…
…but this is amazing!

(Average: 6.50 out of 10)

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The Tim’s Art Direction:Give me a dude in front of a pyramid with some spikey armor. No, more spikes. More. Still not enough spikes. More spikes! More!
Published 1991

(Average: 4.27 out of 10)

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Scott B Comments: Sure the cross-eyed owl and cherry-shaking duo being eaten by a giant flower seems bizarre, but the back cover explains that it’s a Bosch painting (so intellectual!) and it’s a better portrayal of the author’s work than any modern artist could make (so they don’t have to pay anybody for a cover!). The back cover also DARES YOU (in type so large they can’t fit a four-letter word on there) to, I don’t know, have acid flashbacks or something. Not that you should do that! But read this book, because the author did that. Or something.
Published 1958

Back Cover Here

(Average: 8.28 out of 10)

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Cyril’s Art Direction: It’s French? What better than a couple of naked broads?
Published 1968

(Average: 6.91 out of 10)

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Diggler’s Art Direction: Lets put a big black phallic symbol on a moon surface and have the men running in fear while the women gawk.
Published 1954

(Average: 5.39 out of 10)

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