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Good Show Sir Comments: My wish was for a Playboy Fantasy and the genie handed me this.

Published 1981

(Average: 5.89 out of 10)

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Bibliomancer Comments: You would all look prettier if you smiled more.

Published 1981

(Average: 7.77 out of 10)

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Tag Wizard Comments: Nicola Alter writes the Thoughts on Fantasy blog and last year she set out to create an over-the-top fantasy book cover including all the standard fantasy clichés. As she wrote:

“I’ve encountered a few covers that take it a bit far, but I thought it’d be amusing to go even further, and have a bit of fun with the tropes of my favourite genre… so here is my recipe for a no-holds-barred, all-boxes-ticked, epic high fantasy book cover (accompanied by examples from the most clichéd design I can muster).”

Well, we here at Good Show Sir! consider ourselves the experts on bad covers. So we’ll be the judge of that!

So check out her post where she walks you through the steps:

How to Make a Clichéd High Fantasy Cover

And be sure to visit the rest of her site and welcome her to join us here at Good Show Sir: the home of ethnic and erudite book cover curation.

Published 2017

(Average: 8.33 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: In the tradition of Onan.

Published 1976

(Average: 6.52 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: What can I say we keep on winning with man tigers… but how could we improve it I hear you ask? Dinosaurs! Lots of them! With swords and shields! They don’t even need to be anthropomorphic!
Published 2016

(Average: 6.76 out of 10)

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George Comments: Couldn’t find his loincloth this morning. Had to use the bedsheet.

Published 1980

(Average: 7.05 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: “When he said he was a headhunter I thought he wanted me because of my LinkedIn® profile”.

Published 1975

Finally, the trilogy of terrible Corgi GSS covers is complete. See here and here.

(Average: 7.25 out of 10)

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Wendy Comments: Her Chatty Cathy pull-string is showing.

Published 1987

(Average: 6.43 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: Cover art, suitable for framing, from the artist’s website.
From his biography:
Peter died much too soon but at least he was sitting in a bar with a drink in front of him. There are worse ways to go. At his funeral the vicar said he was probably “getting in the rounds” in heaven. I like to think he’s painting there too … He was intelligent and widely read and a regular member of his local pub’s quiz and cricket teams, though he would say that was mainly for the beer! He died in March 1998 in Skegness while he and some colleagues were working on a mural at Butlins, relaxing in the hotel bar after work.

Published 1979

(Average: 7.84 out of 10)

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Raoul Comments: A Novel of the Endswordsworldswoman

Published 1982

(Average: 6.30 out of 10)

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