Aug 19
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Good Show Sir Comments: And now on the BBC, everyone’s favourite children’s cartoon, The Magic Evil Clown Devil Ghost Funny Crocodile Man. Warning, some viewers may find that certain scenes scar them for life.
Published 1967
Many thanks to Darren T for sending this in!

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Tagged with: Alan Aldridge • clown • crocogator • daemons • dude • evil • font problems • horns • jazz hands • Penguin Science Fiction • puffy shirt • recursive cover • spats • strange creature • surrealist imagery • Theodore Sturgeon • WTF
Jul 17
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Rachel J’s Art Direction: I promised you could do the cover for Wyndhams latest and here it is: Trouble with… Lichen… Uh, well, anyway, good luck with that..
Published 1963

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Tagged with: John Griffths • John Wyndham • moon • Penguin Science Fiction • WTF
Jul 16
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Look all I want is a bald man with a robot heart… a comical cartoon heart! Cause that’s just what crazy futuristic electronic LSD taking engineers would do. The back? People put stuff on the back of these things? Standard woman… and we’re done!
Published 1979

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Tagged with: Adrian Chesterman • baldness • cybernetics • cyborg • damsel • dude • living tissue over metal endoskeleton • muscles • Penguin Science Fiction • robots • Sheila Macleod • shiny oh so shiny • weird pecs
Mar 07
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Stuck for something to draw eh? All one has to do is follow the editors rhyme, “Golden chair on which a hunk may sit, dinosaur.” Yeah… it’s not much of a rhyme really. But here’s the twist: it’s in space!
Published 1989

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Tagged with: computers • dinosaur • dude • Jack L. Chalker • lizards • Penguin Science Fiction • Peter Goodfellow • space • space ships • throne
Aug 24
Another long weekend to celebrate the UK’s closing of banks! That can only mean one thing here at Good Show Sir… Honourable Mentions! Today we have a nice selection of franchise books that would be otherwise excluded by our iron forged rules.
Hope you enjoy these, I’ve even thrown in a special something at the end. Enjoy your long weekend if you get it and remember, books rule! Support your local bookery.
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Bonus CD Cover!! Badly photoshopped accordion player:
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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • capes • cloaks • computers • cybernetics • damsel • dude • font problems • glow • Honourable Mentions • Jeff Grubb • Kate Novak • magic • monsters • music • Penguin Science Fiction • Roc Books • Sam Lewis • Stephen Billia • Steven Savile • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • Warner Books • WTF
Jul 25
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Tom M Comments:But look! LOOK AT IT! Finally, the truth about women, revealed for all to see!
Published 1969

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Tagged with: damsel • evil • Franco Grignani • Fritz Leiber • Penguin Science Fiction • WTF
May 28
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: When bikers talk to each other they usually never take off their helmets right? Well have one on there twiddling his thumbs like he’s trying to borrow 20p to buy some sweets at the school tuck-shop!
Published 1983 (maybe)

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Tagged with: casually walking away from an explosion • dude • explosions • jumpsuit • just so much yellow • motorcycle • Penguin Science Fiction • purple number five • Robert Westal • Unknown Artist Institute
Apr 05
Here we are again! It’s been a while for the old honourable mentions but it’s come to that time of year when a can of irn-bru and chocolate is considered an acceptable breakfast!
So if you are having a weekend off I hope you enjoy it and if not… well enjoy these covers that don’t quite make our high standards but we think deserve a special mention.
Have fun!
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Good Show Sir Comments: I love Mark Hamill’s pose on this one. It’s got that, “Why are you drawing me?” Look.
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Well I like these three drawings you’ve done. I know! Lets just put them all together on the cover.
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Matthew’s Art Direction: I want the scariest-looking monster that you can think of on the front!
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Stripey Baz Comments: I’m no purveyor of romance novels or indeed Norwegian literature, but I’m pretty sure that it’s not a good thing to have a mutton-chopped blaggard slap a fair maiden across her face. Given the angle that he’s standing at, his body must have twisted like one of those plastic toy action figures…

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Tagged with: damsel • dude • evil children • frickin laser beams • Frid Ingulstad • gun • Honourable Mentions • monsters • Penguin Science Fiction • Steve Jackson • strange creature • Timothy Zahn • Ting! • Troy Denning • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher • WTF
Jan 27
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Rachel J’s Art Direction: All right, this cover practically designs itself. Think “teleportation”, “futuristic detectives” and “shapeshifting alien saboteurs hiding out on the Moon”. I’ll leave the details up to you…
Published 1966

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Tagged with: Dennis Jackson • Lloyd Biggle Jr • Penguin Science Fiction • WTF
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