May 11
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Tor Mented Comments: Regarding the use of Lovecraft’s name. I believe that the proper names of people and places can’t be copyrighted. The makers of a certain 2002 movie musical can’t copyright the name Chicago so that no one else could use it. I think something similar happened with one of the Amityville movies. Amityville is a real village in New York. So somebody made a horror flick with Amityville in the title, without paying royalties, and the original “Amityville Horror” folks couldn’t do a thing about it. Correct me if I’m wrong.
So anyone can slap Lovecraft on a book. If need be, they could say it’s a reference to Seymour W. Lovecraft or Wendell Q. Lovecraft and not Howard Phillips.
As for the overall cover, H.P. Lovecraft was a lifelong teetotaler and very adamant in that view. So having a Lovecraft “café” that is obviously serving booze is a lot like having a PETA barbecue shop.
Tag Wizard: Possible comedy but we’ve been bending the rules for so long who cares. (Same with game spinoff books, series, and whatnot). At least we have some new covers but we could use a lot more. Keep ’em coming.
Published 1987
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Tagged with: David Mattingly • drunkie • floating person • font problems • magic • owl • pirates • Questar Books • Simon Hawke • Wizaaaaaaaard!
May 24
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Tommy P. Comments: Necromancer the Magician, star of his middle school talent show.
Published 1979
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Tagged with: damsel • DAW Books • dude • Gordon R. Dickson • Greg Theakston • magic • mighty moustache • side boob • tasteful smoke
Aug 11
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Wendy Comments Oh crap. The candle factory is burning down.
Published 1990
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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • Barbara Hambly • candles • Del Rey Books • eyepatch • fire • leather • magic • puffy shirt • SFBC • skulls a-poppin' • Tom Kidd
Mar 07
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Tat Wood Comments: It’s exactly like a Breughel. If he’d done the poster for a straight-to-video sequel to ‘Dark Crystal’ about a Yeti, sorceress and a woodchuck.
Published 1981
You might remember this from here.
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Tagged with: C.J. Cherryh • Craig Shaw Gardner • damsel • Dell Books • Diane Duane • dude • Flashing Swords series • font problems • groundhog • Lin Carter • magic • Richard Corben • Roger Zelazny • snow and ice • Tanith Lee
May 28
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Tom Noir Comments: If cats could read the story you wrote about them, they still wouldn’t.
Published 1984
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Tagged with: Ace Books • Ann Meisel • Cats! • Fritz Leiber • Gardner Dozois • Jack Dann • magic • sky-eyes • Stephen King • Ursula K. Le Guin
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
Feb 01
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Good Show Sir Comments: Dude, next time you take me for a walk can you at least change out of your night clothes?
Published 1986
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Tagged with: baldness • bear • dude • face • floating face • John Hurford • magic • Maurice Gee • Puffin Books • shorts • WTF
Jan 29
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Remember your expression when you walked in on me in the bathroom? Just like that, but with a floating huge mountain in front of your face instead of my dong.
Published 1991
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Tagged with: clouds • damsel • eye-yi-yi • gams • Grafton Books • magic • mountains • over sideways and under on a magic carpet ride • Piers Anthony • sky-eyes • sky-legs • Steve Crisp
Apr 18
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JaunPaul Comments: Summon the keeper, my litter box needs cleaning.
Published 1998
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Tagged with: Cats! • DAW Books • glow • lightning • magic • Mark Hess • sky-eyes • Tanya Huff
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