Apr 16
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Colette’s Art Direction: I want an attractive couple on another planet who wear ribbons instead of actual clothing. But I guess we need something that will make it seem horrible AND sexy, so can you add a long trail of golden ectoplasm to the woman’s lower body? It should imply “you have radiant womb” and not “you should immediately see a doctor about that.”
Published 1973
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Tagged with: damsel • Dell Books • dude • fire • Leo P. Kelley • loincloth • moon • planets • strapping outfit • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Apr 27
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NGpm Comments: This is one busy cover. Why does the dragon-saurus have a blue and red aura? Is the horse fireproof? You know this dragon’s dynamite: “look at the bones, man!” Overall the art isn’t bad, but the typography and that blurb about the Newberry is just so awkward.
Published 1986
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Tagged with: Berkley Books • bladed weapons • dragon • dude • font problems • giant birds • glowing eyes • horses • horses on fire • Kinuko Craft • magic • once you see it • Robin McKinley • shuriken of approval • skulls a-poppin' • strapping outfit • sword
Apr 14
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Scot B’s Art Direction: OK, I see a redheaded woman wearing overalls, but still half-naked, being gnawed on by ghost wolves while a dragon explodes from her crotch. The dragon’s chasing a guy with a flaming orange on his jumpsuit. And a purple polka-dotted gnome fortune-teller! It’s a masterpiece I tell you! What’s that, you say the name of the book is what? Well, just throw a spiderweb around everything, that’ll work.
Published 1980
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Tagged with: artist in the comments • baldy bad man • busy hands • cleavage • damsel • dragon • dude • evil • John M. Ford • lizards • magic • once you see it • playing cards • Pocket Books • spiral • strange creature • strapping outfit • Terrance Lindall • Web of Intruige! • wolf • WTF
Jul 19
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Tommi Comments: The blurb on the back translates as: “… Where Sturgeon, LeGuin, Heinlein and Russ where merely scratching the surface in their attempt to appropriately represent human sexuality in Science Fiction, David Gerrold is digging a deep shaft.” No comment, really, apart from, maybe – uuurgh.
Published 1978
Nice speedos!
Many thanks to Tommi!
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Tagged with: bracers • damsel • David Gerrold • dude • fish people • floating person • German • ginger • Knaur Science Fiction • moon • muscles • non-papillial person • perspective problems • planets • Selecciones Ilustradas Art Group • sixpack abs • Speedos • Spock ears • strapping outfit • sun
Apr 20
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Jen Comments: I have no words. Someday, I’m going to have to build up the courage to actually read this.
Amazing! Thanks Jen!
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Tagged with: Ace Books • busy hands • magical orbs • once you see it • planets • Robert A. Heinlein • space suit • Steele Savage • strange creature • strapping outfit
Apr 09
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Well I am thinking, man in miniskirt stands in the background with a very large sword. Then we’ll have a man standing in the foreground thrusting his sword from his pelvis as he furiously… well. Lets just say he looks furious, the destroyed viewers’ minds will do the rest.
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • bracers • dude • male skirts • muscles • Peter Mennim • Simon R. Green • strapping outfit • sword
Mar 16
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Eighties cartoons are just fantastic, aren’t they. Wait a second… What if we go for that eighties look? Musclebound guy wearing strange straps which have no benefit and gold bracelets. Holding aloft his magic glowing scepter. No one is going to forget this cover anytime soon!
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Tagged with: ant people • antennae • baldness • Bio of a Space Tyrant series • bladed weapons • bracers • dude • evil • eyepatch • gun • HarperCollins Books • moon • muscles • Piers Anthony • planets • skulls a-poppin' • space • strapping outfit • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute • utility belt • weird pecs
Oct 14
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BONUS Hi-Res Image!
Suitable for framing to hang in your man-cave.
Good Show Sir Art Direction: You know what type of reader suffers in the world of sci-fi/fantasy? Men! We need something for the men! So just put a redhead vampire chick with a huge rack right there on the front cover, holding her shotgun. It’s about time that we have something men can enjoy unlike those, dragons, swords, guns, lasers…….space ships…..oh…
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Tagged with: Baen Books • candles • Chris Csejthe series • cleavage • Clyde Caldwell • damsel • gun • leather • once you see it • skeletons • skulls a-poppin' • strapping outfit • sunglasses • vampire • Wm. Mark Simmons
Apr 29
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Picture this – A well built guy (and I mean Muscles From Brussels material) showing off his golden helmet, wearing his skimpy purple briefs, holding a long hard wooden spear… and riding on top of his large pink dragon. What do you mean that’s what the Internet is for?
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Tagged with: DAW Books • dragon • Drs Freud and Jung disagree • dude • Jody Lee • lance • loincloth • male skirts • Mercedes Lackey • muscles • pole weapons • ships • strapping outfit
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