Mar 22
Magazines, franchise books, paper dolls and “non-fiction” occult. We have a potpourri jamboree here for another in our continuing series of Honourable Mentions. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers.
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Erik Tollstedt Comments: I want an image of Ernest Hemingway. He should be sitting on a purple couch in outer space. There should be papers flying away from his lap. Also, I’d like to see Ernest Hemingway’s head explode. But not in the normal way. It should explode into several other heads, one of them a sleeping hispanic man, and the other Emperor Ming. And have some sort of purple beam shoot out of his brain too. Yeah, that will convey “creative genius” like nothing else.
Published 1990
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Lillie Awesome Comments: When the party supply store attacks.
Published 1972
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GSS ex-noob Comments: Why don’t you post more of my covers?
Published 2017
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Theresa Comments: The satanic black mass orgy happpened so fast that it was just a blur.
Published 1973

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Tagged with: Ace Books • Baby Tattoo Books • beard-wielding • Brian Kesinger • cephalopod • Clark Darlton • cleavage • damsel • dude • Francis King • frickin laser beams • Gardner Dozois • Gary Morrow • Honourable Mentions • Isaac Asimov • Joe Haldeman • magic • mighty moustache • mind: blown • my head aplode • New English Library • octopus • Perry Rhodan • Satan • sexytime • starkers • strange artifact • suits you • tentacles • top hat • Wayne Barlowe
Jan 31

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Good Show Sir Comments: “Hey! You! Climb down off the seafood buffet!”
Published 1971
Thanks to Sérgio for sending this in!

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Tagged with: Bob Haberfield • cape • cephalopod • dude • long haired men • Mayflower Books • Michael Moorcock • ocean • starkers • strange creature • sweet ride • tentacles • visible waves • white
Sep 20
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Good Show Sir Comments: Cover art, suitable for framing, from the artist’s website.
From his biography:
Peter died much too soon but at least he was sitting in a bar with a drink in front of him. There are worse ways to go. At his funeral the vicar said he was probably “getting in the rounds” in heaven. I like to think he’s painting there too … He was intelligent and widely read and a regular member of his local pub’s quiz and cricket teams, though he would say that was mainly for the beer! He died in March 1998 in Skegness while he and some colleagues were working on a mural at Butlins, relaxing in the hotel bar after work.
Published 1979

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Tagged with: ax-wielding • booties • cephalopod • cleavage • damsel • eye-yi-yi • Faux-nan • Fritz Leiber • Good Show Sir • hunkbutt • long haired men • Mayflower Books • muscles • nappy • Peter Elson • ridiculous hat • sword • white-clothed protagonist
Nov 16
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Tag Wizard Comments: And needless to say: Amateurs in Artistry
Published 1952

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Tagged with: bubble helmet • cephalopod • damsel • dude • eye-yi-yi • Jon J. Deegan • Panther Books • space suits • tentacles • Unknown Artist Institute
Aug 01
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Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Comments: ‘Gilligan’s Island’, a SyFy epic
Published 2016

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Tagged with: Baen Books • Bob Eggleton • cephalopod • damsel • Eric Flint • font problems • moon • Ryk E. Spoor • strange creature • tentacles
Jul 25
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Bibliomancer Comments: The only one interested in this drunk old man’s bar stories is Tag Wizard! Have fun tagging them all!
Published 1980

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Tagged with: Arthur C. Clarke • brewski • bubbles • cephalopod • computers • Del Rey Books • dude • handheld beverage container of Germanic origin (tankard) • insects • ray gun • SFBC • submarine • Tony Gleeson
Feb 04
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Hakan’s Art Direction: OK, we’re printing the translation of The Pebble in the Sky by Prof. Asimov. I’m open to suggestions for the cover… Come on people! The story happens in a planet, so let’s have the Earth in the background, did you see the last episode of the Galactica? Let’s put that in the title! And some women! NAKED women! And some squid! NO! MAKE THAT A SPACE SQUID! GOLDEN! So, the title we’re using is now “Sinister Planet Galactica,” it suits better, the book has no pebbles in it but has a planet so there you go. Now I want the whole lot on my desk by tomorrow or bad things will happen to you, Sir!
Published 1983

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Tagged with: Baskan Books • cephalopod • cleavage • corpse mountain • damsel • devil's dumplings • Isaac Asimov • planets • Sir Mix-A-Lot • space • space sheep • squids and nudes • tentacles • Unknown Artist Institute
Feb 03
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Good Show Sir Comments: Mr SQUID! I said smile… smile with your eye! Jezzz… we’ll never get this cover shoot for Vogue done.
Published 1980
Many thanks to Erin!

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Tagged with: Bob Shaw • cephalopod • cleavage • damsel • Dell Books • devil's dumplings • eye-yi-yi • mermaid • monsters • proportional issues • squids and nudes • teat shields • tentacles • Unknown Artist Institute
Sep 20
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Art Direction: Man in a thong sword fighting an octopus while two half naked babes watch. My only regret is that only the French people will see this glorious work of art. Maybe someday… someone… somewhere will show this to the masses so they might all say, “Good Show Sir. Good Show!”
Published 1985

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • cephalopod • cleavage • damsel • dude • Fleuve Noir Books • Good Show Sir • hunkbutt • loincloth • long haired men • Maurice Limat • monsters • mullet • muscles • strange creature • sword • tentacles • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
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