Jul 07
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Dave Comments: Let’s see. We have a guy in a tree, with a sword, getting ready to lop of the head of a snake, with its head super-imposed against The Moon. Paging Dr. Freud!
Published 1983
Hey, I’ve seen that scene in the jungle book!!
Many thanks to Dave!
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Tagged with: Avon Books • bladed weapons • dude • font problems • James Blish • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute
Jul 02
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Art Direction: Hilarious escapade? Well then, no one is going to care what we put on there. In fact lets just put everything we can! Including Centaurs, which I hear are the next big thing. And we’ll have giant people with planets for faces! We’ll stop there but wait till you see what I have in mind for the font!
Published 2001
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Tagged with: Centaur! • cleavage • cloaks • damsel • Darrell K. Sweet • dude • font problems • giant birds • glow • magic • magical orbs • once you see it • people with planets for heads • Piers Anthony • planets • robes • strange creature • Tor Books • waistcoat • WTF
Jul 01
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Don Comments: OK, we’ve seen tons of perms and oodles of mullets on these covers – but I do believe this is the first permed mullet. (Pullet?) Assuming that’s the eponymous Bard whose Tale this is, he’s apparently not the brightest light in the harbor, since he a) agreed to accompany his hairdresser on a thieving expedition from an albino lizard-man (do such things EVER end well?) and b) misunderstood her when she said she wanted him along to carry the loot.
Published 1993
Many thanks to the Don!
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Tagged with: a picture within a picture • Baen Books • Bard's Tale Series • bladed weapons • damsel • dude • GOLD! • Larry Elmore • lizard people • lute • magic • Mercedes Lackey • music • once you see it • robes • Ru Emerson • shiny • strange creature • treasure
Jun 25
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Art Direction: Sometimes I just would love a big hug from a hunky man with some steroid induced muscles. He would hold me while I sit brooding on a stone floor with the epic backdrop of snow covered mountains. So let’s draw that. Except, don’t draw me. Best put some woman there instead.
Published 2001
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Tagged with: cleavage • damsel • dude • Greenery Press • muscles • Sharon Green • Terrillian Saga
Jun 24
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Lauren Comments: This cover does in fact show a scene from the book, but I think maybe there could have been a better choice. I look at this cover, and all I can say is: What?? If you haven’t actually read the book, it makes no sense at all.
Published 1988
Awesome hat!
Many thanks to Lauren.
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Tagged with: +1 Protection from Spelling • Clifford D. Simak • Del Rey Books • dude • font problems • robots • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Jun 23
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Andy Comments: The art department obviously wanted to cram as much as possible in (even though this is apparently the second novel in a trilogy). I wouldn’t be surprised however if it was an image ripped from the text. I really like the bloke standing on the ear of dragon – it seems to go well with the tag line. The spaceship is supposed to be vivid purple (the first line of the book) but is obviously out-done in the purple stakes by the dragon.
Published 1995
Ah the days of… yellow jeans…
Many thanks to Andy!
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Tagged with: castle • damsel • Del Rey Books • dragon • dude • fire • horns • jeans and a t-shirt • Lawrence Watt-Evans • magic • magical weapon • Peter Peebles • planets • space ships • strange creature • Worlds of Shadow Trilogy
Jun 21
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Rose Comments: Let’s see what you have here. We asked for a road…yes, well done. And some people in elf suits. And a really big, really stupid–oh…wow…
Published 1979
Another Heinlein, what fun!
Many thanks to Rose!
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Tagged with: Berkley Books • bladed weapons • Carl Lundgren • damsel • dude • font problems • giant • Robert A. Heinlein
Jun 16
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Rod Comments: Nothing defines fratricide better than man taking on giant praying mantis. Or this that tiny man, regular bug? Either way, it’s a gas, gas, gas …
Published 1979
Many thanks to Rod!
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Tagged with: dude • Futura Publications • giant insects • Lindsay Gutteridge • loincloth • Matthew Dilke Series • muscles • pole weapons • spear • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute
Jun 15
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Don’s Art Direction: This is a humorous novel about an interstellar diplomat. He’s suave, he’s debonair, and everything in the book’s played for laughs. So we want a horrific tentacle-headed, four-eyed, jelly-legged alien leaping at him with a spear. And we can’t afford the tux rental, so just use whatever your model’s wearing when he comes over from his rehearsal of A CHORUS LINE. But add some muscles! Retief is a two-fisted guy, no doubt with mighty thews! We don’t know what “thews” are, actually, but we’ll know ’em when we see ’em and by God he better have ’em! THEWS!
Published 1983
So it’s comedy. But it’s not a joke on the genre. That’s ok right?
Awesome! Thanks the Don!
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Tagged with: aliens • dude • font problems • gun • Jaime Retief Series • jeans and a t-shirt • Keith Laumer • knights • muscles • once you see it • Pocket Books • pole weapons • Rowena Morrill • spear • strange creature
Jun 10
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Art Direction: We all know from popular science fiction when one is stranded on a planet we loose clothing. It always ends up with a women in a mere bikini watching a man in a spear fight with some sort of daemon creature. Always! So draw it kinda like Robinson Crusoe… except with more breasts. And aliens.
Published 1983
Thanks to the Legend Dave R!
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Tagged with: aliens • bladed weapons • cleavage • daemons • damsel • dude • loincloth • male skirts • Richard Reinsmith • Stoneshire Books
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