Sep 26
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Art Direction: You want to know what we need art minion!?! Let me tell you. The bigest TINGGGGGGGG anyone has ever seen! Make sure even the man holding his mighty sword is blinded by its awesomeness. Oh and… make sure he’s pretty much naked. Why? Well… why not? Eh?
Published 1982
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • Budy Matieson • dude • Fleuve Noir Books • muscles • sword • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute
Aug 24
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Art Direction: We’ll have some guy looking like he’s in a furtistic space disco being attacked by a giant man with a glowing forehead. Why, you ask? Well, we all know psychic powers are clearly symbolised by a lens flare. Just like every sword is reflecting a magical light from somewhere making it go… TING!
Published 1983
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Tagged with: Andre Norton • bighanditis • bladed weapons • font problems • frickin laser beams • glow • glowing eyes • handguns • lens flare • shoulder pads • sword • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute • wired • WTF
Aug 22
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Vincent’s Art Direction: So, put an enormous crab on the cover. And, what the hey, give him a knife. No, make it a dagger. Right, then have the sacrificial victim be a young woman lying beneath the knife….perfect, that’s it!
Published 1989
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • crab • daggers • damsel • Dell Books • giant enemy crab • Guy N. Smith • human sacrifice • strange creature • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute
Jun 17
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Art Direction: Lets break away from the common Thor look stereotype. And by break away, I mean just don’t give him a cape. Keep the male skirt, shaved legs, long blonde hair and bunny ears helmet!
Published 1987
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Tagged with: Ace Books • blunt weapons • Curtis H Hoffmann • dude • font problems • glow • James Warhola • muscles • space ships • Ting! • war
Jun 13
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Joachim’s Art Direction: Man, surrounded by flowing white firmamental materials, which conglomerate/emanate at/from his manhood… Everyone standing in awe since he’s floating down steps, or, staring at his….
Published 1968
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Tagged with: aurora borealis • Ballantine Books • dude • electricity • floating person • magic • muscles • Robert R. Foster • Robert Silverberg • stairway to heaven • Ting!
May 05
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Ian Comments: This is not a terrible cover – it quite accurately depicts the book’s contents. It’s the UK edition cover. The US cover follows..
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Ian comments: This is what the US publisher used for the book. It is, incidentally, a steampunk space opera, with Victorians in space.
Both were published in 1993
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Tagged with: Avon Books • bubble helmet • Colin Greenland • damsel • David O'Connor • dude • HarperCollins Books • hot air balloons • monkeys • muscles • planets • Rowena Morrill • ships • space • space ships • space suit • strange creature • Ting! • wings
Apr 28
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Don’s Art Direction: Sorry, we can’t afford live models for this one. You’ll have to make do with the, “Barbarian Barbie & Ken With Stunned Horse” play-set.
Published 1991
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • damsel • DAW Books • dude • font problems • horses • horses with hairstyles • Jody Lee • Mercedes Lackey • mullet • shoulder pads • sword • Ting!
Apr 11
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Kelly’s Art Direction: Hmmm, a desert nomad with a magic ring and a crazed glare, an aged but fierce warrioress wearing chain-mail long underwear beneath a tunic slit to the waist, and a princely sort who seems to be counting on the other two to protect him since he hasn’t yet drawn his weapons…
Published 1984
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Tagged with: Ace Books • bladed weapons • daggers • damsel • dude • Patricia C. Wrede • sword • Ting! • Walter Velez
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