Nov 30
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ash966 Comments: Why, hello there, giant-brain-eyeball-octopus-bat-guy! And what’s behind your head? It’s not the moon, because it doesn’t go all the way around. An enormous cantaloupe, perhaps?
Published 1976

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Tagged with: C M Kornbluth • daemons • evil children • exposed brain • eye-yi-yi • Frederik Pohl • Gary Viskupic • glow • jeans and a t-shirt • monsters • monstrous humanoid • Nelson Doubleday SFBC • tentacles • wings • WTF
Nov 22
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Phil’s Art Direction: I’m CERTAIN people will buy this. If it was good enough for Hugo Gernsback, it’s good enough for me.
Published 1987

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Tagged with: aliens • anatomical issues • chains • cleavage • damsel • devil's dumplings • Fredric Brown • Grafton Books • monsters • space • space ships • Unknown Artist Institute
Nov 21
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Tom Noir Comments: It’s the little details that separate the good artists from the bad. For instance, notice the bit of man-bun sticking out from under this fellow’s fuzzy tutu. GENIUS!
Published 1984

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Tagged with: Crown Publishers • damsel • dude • forest • fungi • furs • George Zebrowski • hunkbutt • Isaac Asimov • loincloth • long haired men • male skirts • Michael Booth • mighty moustache • monsters • Murray Leinster • pole weapons • spear • spider • starkers • strange creature • Ting! • WTF
Nov 15
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Joachim’s Art Direction: I want an Indian hanging out in a boat with a yellow-thonged alien with a head drawn by a 4 year-old…
Published 1977

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Tagged with: aliens • anthropomorphism • DAW Books • dude • loincloth • monsters • native american • Richard Hescox • strange creature • William L. Chester
Oct 31
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TomM Comments: The horror. The horror!
Published 1978
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Tagged with: Cecelia Holland • cleavage • damsel • devil's dumplings • Melvyn Grant • monsters • space sheep • Sphere Books • strange creature • whale
Oct 21
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Scott B’s Art Direction: OK, I want a triad of spiritual guru, alien Venus, and bull-man, linked by a strip of computer punch tape (futuristic!). Also, it must have a hummingbird-whale. I insist.
Published 1977

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Tagged with: animals with faces • beard-wielding • bull people • Carlos Ochagavia • Charles W. Runyon • dude • horns • monsters • muscles • neo-jesus • Popular Library • scrolls • strange creature • whale • wings • WTF
Oct 12
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Alessandra Comments: I think they were going for a cutting-edge symbolic look, some sort of classical reference to alchemical historical scholarship. But they just look goofy. Oh god, that eye.
Published 1976

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Tagged with: eye-yi-yi • Joachim Neugroschel • magic • monsters • Stonehill Publishing • Unknown Artist Institute • vampires • WTF
Oct 11
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Jose Comments: Everything about this cover is perfect (in a very wrong way); a spangly shirt, a sentient cactus and a lizard with its ‘hands’ on its hips.
Published 1984

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Tagged with: Berkley Books • dude • Janet Aulisio • jazz hands • Kevin O'Donnell • lizards • McGill Feighan Series • monsters • strange creature • WTF
Oct 07
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Scott B Comments: A smug four-armed barbarian Telly Savales holding a bemused decapitated robot head. Works for me.
Published 1979

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Tagged with: Bantam Books • bladed weapons • daggers • dude • font problems • monsters • Phyllis Gotlieb • WTF
Sep 29
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Ruby’s Art Direction: I want a truly horrifying banshee creature… no wait – Give me the world’s gayest red rubber man, complete with rubbery genital mound and screaming nipples, then have him vomit himself into creation. Oh, and add in a small red haired child looking confused.
Published 1991

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Tagged with: evil children • Jim Burns • masks • monsters • non-face body parts with faces • Robert Holdstock • Warner Books • weird pecs • WTF
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