Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors’ item in its own way – not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, and suspends in time and space, a frozen moment of …
OK, that’s just a Rod Serling Night Gallery quote I copped off of IMDB. But here, for your consideration, are three cover submissions that didn’t make the cut. Not because they aren’t terrible. Not because they are based on a franchise. Not because they are parody or comedy. Not because … well, just because …
Raoul Comments: That 70s Show.
Published 1975
Alice Comments: “Let the Magic Journey begin! Oh crap. Wher’d my ass go?”.
Published 1988
Maureen Comments: Click all you want. No boobs under the sheep.
Published 1972
Oh, and Tag Wizard sent me this racism and dared me to post it. Now you owe me a pint:
It’s a Two-fer Tuesday – Dem Bones Edition
Gully Foyle Comments: Yahoo! Mountain Dew!
Piper Comments: The cover is very literal: a skeleton solving his own murder with the dog.
Published 1986, 2013
Good Show Sir Comments: His balls were bit by a radioactive spider.
Published 1961
JaunPaul Comments: The cloud is Piers Anthony, perving over his naked under-aged protagonists.
Published 1988
Good Show Sir Comments: Leopard says: “Go ahead and finish your sandwich. I’ll have my lunch after you’re done.”
Published 2001
Tom Noir Comments: “Gee willikers, Joe, I see skeletons!”
“F#*% this noise, Tom!”
Published 1959
Bibliomancer’s Art Direction: You spilled your whiskey all over the cover art! No time to redo it. Just sponge it off and get it out the door. It has to be at the printer’s today.
Published 1977
Tom Noir Comments: No seriously man, I just want to take a little bit off the top!
Published 1990
Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: I don’t know… just draw something… make it odd… actually make it so odd no one will have a clue what’s going on!
Published 1969
Many thanks to Darren!
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