Jul 30
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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
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Tagged with: amulet • castle • city • dragon • dude • glove • glow • Good Show Sir • hoodie • lens flare • mountains • N.R.R. Alkin • Nicola Alter • raven • sword • The Blood Magician Chronicles Series • Ting!
Jan 30
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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
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Tagged with: anthromorphism • Baen Books • Bill Fawcett • cat people • dinosaur • Eric Flint • Jody Lynn Nye • Mercedes Lackey • S.M. Stirling • shields • shuriken of approval • Stephen Hickman • sword • teeth
Jan 10
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George Comments: Couldn’t find his loincloth this morning. Had to use the bedsheet.
Published 1980
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Tagged with: Ace Books • Andrew J. Offutt • cleavage • dude • Faux-nan • font problems • muscles • Robert E. Howard • sheets • sixpack abs • sword • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute
Nov 22
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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.
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Tagged with: Corgi Books • dude • Patrick Woodroffe • Piers Anthony • severed head • skulls a-poppin' • sticks • sword
Oct 23
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Wendy Comments: Her Chatty Cathy pull-string is showing.
Published 1987
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Tagged with: Baen Books • booties • cleavage • cloaks • crotch armor • Dafydd ab Hugh • damsel • font problems • Haircut 100 • Larry Elmore • sword • tights
Sep 20
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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
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Tagged with: ax-wielding • booties • cephalopod • cleavage • damsel • eye-yi-yi • Faux-nan • Fritz Leiber • Good Show Sir • hunkbutt • long haired men • Mayflower Books • muscles • nappy • Peter Elson • ridiculous hat • sword • white-clothed protagonist
Aug 03
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JuanPaul Comments:
Who be the man with bright orange tan? HOGAR!
Who do we beg to show us less leg? HOGAR!
Who bought a big blade to impress all the maids? HOGAR!
Say it! HOGAR!
Say it! HOGAR!
HOGAR! HOGAR! HOGAR!
Published 1987
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Tagged with: balls • big hair • capes • damsel • dude • fire • font problems • helmet • horns • John Rufus Sharpe III • lightning • male skirts • Signet Books • sword • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute
Jun 07
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Good Show Sir Comments: Fun fact. For some reason I am reminded that he Latin word for “sword sheath” is vagina.
Published 1986
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Tagged with: cape • damsel • DAW Books • font problems • glow • Jennifer Roberson • Kathy Wyatt • sword
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