Oct 18
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Terry’s Art Direction: You see, nothing says ‘saving the universe from a 30,000 year descent into barbarism’ like a floating dead brain and two eyeballs. Oh, and be sure to lace it with lightning, and oh yeah it is a space story so put stars and stuff behind it.
Published 1983 (maybe)
Still not exactly sure who the publisher is.
Many thanks To Terry!
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Tagged with: electricity • Grafton Books • Granada Books • space • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Oct 14
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Hayley Comments: This is what the back-cover says, “Warning: Graphic sex between a human woman and an alien male who is anatomically different from human men!”
Published 2008
Many thanks to Hayley!
Submitted through our wonderful Facebook group!
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Tagged with: aliens • author in the comments • BEHIND YOU! • busy hands • cleavage • damsel • dude • Lanette Curington • muscles • Samhain Publishing • space • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Oct 12
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Glen Comments: It’s a naked man, holding a ray gun, being chased by dogs controlled by evil alien parasites from Titan, which agrees with the plot of Heinlein’s book. But why the red trilby hat? You would think that boots be more useful than a red hat, if you’re in an unclothed state on a hillside…
Published 1969
Males bums don’t need censored, right?
Many thanks to Glen!
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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • dude • gun • hunkbutt • Pan Books • Robert A. Heinlein • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute
Oct 08
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Art Direction: We don’t need an artist! Have you seen what I can do with photoshop? Look, I can take this picture of Karen and… BAM… she’s blue! I know, hilarious right? And that’s not it, just cut and paste and… WHAM… she’s in a badly rendered icy landscape looking cold. Stick in the title and oh hold on, why is it behind her arm… Layers? Sounds like witchcraft to me. Finished!
Published 2004
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Tagged with: aliens • Clark Ashton Smith • damsel • Unknown Artist Institute • Wildside Press • WTF
Oct 01
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Anne’s Art Direction: It’s a book of short stories by one of the most lyrical authors in the universe? I know, we’ll put a ripped blond naked guy on the front with something or other covering his nibbits. How about a tiger head? That sends the right sort of message, don’t you think? Then we’ll surround him with some dobermans for good measure. To top it off, we definitely need three different fonts but also distract everyone with an aurora border.
Published 1978
Many thanks to Anne!
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Tagged with: clouds • Dell Books • dogs • dude • Edgar Pangborn • fantastical rock star • font problems • Good Show Sir • long haired men • muscles • starkers • strange creature • tigers • Unknown Artist Institute
Sep 21
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George Comments: I feel as if there were drinking involved in the making of this design cover. Or drugs. Or rabies. I think this is what happens when clip art and Photoshop get used in the most horrible ways possible. EVERYTHING is horrifying in this cover. Does anything really need to be said? Just looking at this cover says it all.
Published 2009
Many thanks to George!
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Tagged with: Alexander Potter • Anton Strout • Brenda Cooper • Carrie Vaughn • DAW Books • Donald J. Bingle • Elizabeth Vaughan • evil • Fiona Patton • font problems • Irene Radford • Jody Lynn Nye • John A. Pitts • Kerrie Hughes • Larry D. Sweazy • Martin H. Greenberg • Nina Kiriki Hoffman • Richard Lee Byers • Steven H. Silver • strange creature • Tim Waggoner • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Sep 17
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Art Direction: Kinda like those raunchy romance book covers with real people. Expect with a magical dragon and a hunky wizard waving around his magical staff. Who wouldn’t want to sleep with a guy who dresses like a wizard? Actually… good point… make sure to hire a model.
Published 2003
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Tagged with: Ace Books • bracers • dragon • dude • fire • Is that Kevin Costner? • magic • magical weapon • Patricia Briggs • pole weapons • staff • The Hurog Duology • Unknown Artist Institute • waistcoat
Sep 16
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Cliftopher’s Art Direction: Give me a dinosaur with a baby’s head. A freakin’ big dinosaur with a really little baby’s head. And while you’re at it put some kind of mountain like a man in the background.
Published 1982
Many thanks to Cliftopher!
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Tagged with: Abacus Books • animals with faces • dinosaur • Italo Calvino • landscape face • moon • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Sep 07
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David Comments: Eric Brighteyes by H Rider Haggard (1891) was set in the Viking Age. I have no idea where he found the bikini babe, ray gun or early model Bluetooth headset.
Published 1978
Vikings had lasers… right?
Many thanks to David!
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Tagged with: damsel • dude • frickin laser beams • gun • H. Rider Haggard • handguns • Kensington Publishing • muscles • Unknown Artist Institute
Aug 31
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Stevie Comments: Jack L Chalker’s Songs of the Dancing Gods cover is bizarre! Crazy wizards, super sultry fairy-women in red and green and a huge mack truck running thru everything. What’s all that crazy action supposed to tell the prospective reader?
Published 1991
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Tagged with: baldness • baldy bad man • beard-wielding • cloaks • Dancing Gods Series • Jack L. Chalker • magic • magical orbs • magical weapon • mighty moustache • mohawk • Orbit Books • strange creature • truckin' • Unicorns! • Unknown Artist Institute • Wizaaaaaaaard! • WTF
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