Feb 20
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Diggler’s Art Direction: What we need is a man in a hot tub doing some New Wave Impressionistic dance moves for his girlfriend on the video phone. Meanwhile we’ll have him being squirted by red dye for artistic effect… What do you think?
Published 1982
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Tagged with: damsel • dude • jazz hands • Larry Niven • lens flare • muscles • once you see it • Orbit Books • Peter Jones • space • starkers • Ting! • WTF
Dec 19
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Art Direction: Wave… WAVE!?! Well there you go my boy, we have our answer right there. Let’s put a huge wave on there with a lighthouse and a helicopter to try and show some size perspective. I’m sure it will be all fine. And it’s day time so lens flare the hell out of that lighthouse. They run during the day right?
Published 2010
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Tagged with: font problems • helicopters • lens flare • lighthouse • once you see it • tidal wave • Ting! • Tor Books • Unknown Artist Institute • Wil Mara • WTF
Aug 24
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Art Direction: We’ll have some guy looking like he’s in a furtistic space disco being attacked by a giant man with a glowing forehead. Why, you ask? Well, we all know psychic powers are clearly symbolised by a lens flare. Just like every sword is reflecting a magical light from somewhere making it go… TING!
Published 1983
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Tagged with: Andre Norton • bighanditis • bladed weapons • font problems • frickin laser beams • glow • glowing eyes • handguns • lens flare • shoulder pads • sword • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute • wired • WTF
Jun 24
SteveAsat Comments: A thrilling last-minute escape from the Queens of Mercury! “Can you do the fandango? Then you shall DIE, Earthman!”
Published 1981
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Tagged with: damsel • DAW Books • dude • fantastical rock star • lens flare • M.A. Foster • Michael Whelan • once you see it • planets • space ships
Feb 10
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Art Direction: I want this one looking exactly like a scary leaflet you’d get from some crazed new age cult! Naked opaque giant men, lens flares, rings of fire and eighties squiggles! We’ll double our congregation with this. Sorry, I mean readers… or… do I?
Published 1989
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Tagged with: Corgi Books • dude • font problems • Geoff Taylor • lens flare • Lyndon Hardy • magic • magical orbs • muscles
Apr 22
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Harry Comments: According to the author, this cover was commissioned for another book but somehow ended up on hers. It’s very loosely appropriate: there is a sword, and there is a hero, but he is quite explicitly gay.
Superb! Thanks Harry!
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Tagged with: Alan Craddock • bladed weapons • bracers • cleavage • cloaks • damsel • devil's dumplings • Diane Duane • dude • lens flare • Magnum Books • spear • starkers • sword • war
Feb 08
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Listen to me carefully, I said give me a big bosomed women standing in front of some governmental type building casting a beefy fireball. With extra lens flare! Then place every sentence and word in a different type font. Oh wait… that’s what you’ve done.
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Tagged with: Ace Books • Berkley Books • Chris Cocozza • cleavage • damsel • lens flare • magic • magical orbs • Mark Del Franco
Nov 16
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A hunky half-naked muscle encrusted man standing in a strange mist, while casting a magic fireball from his hand. The book’s called flame, so how could we not have one! Though, to go one step further, have him looking thoughtfully at the fire in his hand. That way people will think he’s all sensitive and deep.
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Tagged with: Berkley Books • dude • fire • Jean Johnson • lens flare • magic • magical orbs • muscles • nonsensical shadows • sixpack abs • The Sons of Destiny series • Unknown Artist Institute
Apr 11
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Shoulder pads, parachuter’s with lugers, Nazi’s fighting villagers, lens flare oh lots of lens flare which obviously symbolises magic, leather, sweat bands, …. did I mention shoulder pads?
(Have a great easter weekend! This bends our rules seeing as it is part of a franchise, but come on this one is so worth it! Enjoy!)
Thanks so much to CSA!
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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • Good Show Sir • leather • lens flare • magic • magical orbs • paging John Galliano • parachute • Richard Hescox • Roc Books • scrolls • shoulder pads • Tom Dowd
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