Feb 21
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: We need something to symbolise life… like a man breaking out of a box, a box that’s sort of shaped like a man. I know! Put Alfred Hickcock’s head on that box as a hunky man breaks free! What doesn’t that say about life?
Published 1983 or 1986
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Tagged with: abstraction • dude • font problems • Grafton Books • Granada Books • muscles • Piers Anthony • proportional issues • starkers • statuesque • Unknown Artist Institute
Feb 19
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Bibliomancer’s Art Direction: Sorry Mr. Burroughs but your first Mars book didn’t sell many copies in our Southern bookstores. Perhaps you need a more menacing villain. Our new cover artist has some fresh ideas.
Published 1952
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • daggers • dude • Edgar Rice Burroughs • font problems • Frank E. Schoonover • gun • headband • long haired men • male skirts • Methuen Books • racism • sword • tiara
Feb 11
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MisterBOB Comments: Boobs and some teddy bear creature ready to defend her honour, but keep it real – furry rodents need sunglasses.
Published 1981
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Tagged with: aerobics • big hair • booties • bracers • catsuit • cave • cleavage • damsel • font problems • frickin laser beams • perspective problems • Phyllis Eisenstein • Pocket Books • rat people • Rowena Morrill • strange creature • sunglasses • Timescape Books • WTF
Feb 10
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Rachel and Thomas Comment: There are fourteen of these now. Apparently, the reading public cannot get enough of these magnificent hissing catmen and their high-cut thonged armoured leotards festooned with Rob Liefeld pouches. And who can blame us?
Published 2013
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Tagged with: +1 Protection from Spelling • aeroplanes • Alex Hernandez • anthropomorphism • Baen Books • cat people • crotch armor • explosions • font problems • frickin laser beams • Good Show Sir • Hal Colebatch • Jessica Q. Fox • Larry Niven • Man-Kzin Wars • Matthew Joseph Harrington • war
Jan 23
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Bibliomancer Comments: And after only a few dozen sessions on the E-meter you will so far exceed normal human ability that you can eat a turkey drumstick wearing a bear suit and not feel stupid. Honest!
Published 1989
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Tagged with: bear • bearsuit • Bridge Publications • font problems • Henning Benndorf • L. Ron Hubbard • person in a bearsuit sitting onstage eating a turkey drumstick • WTF
Jan 15
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MisterBOB Comments: I imagine if this art was released as a poster, thousands of ten year girls would buy it, because they know that real magic glows, all the time, day or night.
Published 1998
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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • bridge • castle • damsel • Danny Flynn • fairies • font problems • glow • Unicorns! • Vera Chapman • Vista Books
Jan 08
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Joachim Comments: How a lemur snared some bling. A rollicking space adventure.
Published 1999
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Tagged with: Charles L Harness • font problems • George Zebrowski • Jane Dennis • NESFA Press • Priscilla Olson • rainbow • ring • strange creature • WTF
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