Apr 02
Only two honourable mentions for the long Easter weekend! Mainly because I have completely lost track of what’s in my inbox!
Good to be back and posting covers again, thanks to everyone for supporting me through the dark times! You all get a cookie!
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Piper Comments: It isn’t exactly fantasy/science fiction. It’s psychology. The longer you look the more insane it gets (E.G. Eagle heads in crystals).
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Good Show Sir Comments: Unfortunately I never got to play this, I like to think it would be just as epic as the box art.
Published 1988
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Tagged with: birds • crystal • damsel • floating face • giant birds • Good Show Sir • landscape face • lens flare • lightning • magic • magical orbs • magical weapon • shortbow • sky-eyes • strange creature • sword • Ting! • Tor Books • unknown artist • unknown publisher • wolf
Jan 04
Happy New Year!
Well another year is here, I am just about over my hang over and of course back in work! So it’s time to start again and see what exciting covers we can find to brighten our days. Last year didn’t see a cover which had the power to beat, I Sing the Body Electric. But maybe this year… maybe…
Thanks to everyone who has sent in covers and comments! You all bring such entertainment to our lives. And of course thank you to all those amazing publishers, without you and your art direction where would Good Show Sir be?
Last year was very exciting now that I think about it. And my quest for terrible Sci-Fi/fantasy book covers also led to the best conversation ever in a second hand book store.
Shop Assistant: Wow.. that cover is so bad!!!
Me: Yeah isn’t it? That’s kinda why I am buying it actually.
Shop Assistant: Really? Awesome. You should start some sort of website to show covers like these.
Me: I have…
Shop Assistant: ……
And nothing more was said. Here is the book I bought.
The top rated cover of the year:
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A Personal Favourite:
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CSA Chooses dragon crotch!
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And of course, how could we not mention the cover that started a censoring legend:
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Tagged with: Arrow Books • cleavage • damsel • dragon • Good Show Sir • hunk • lizards • magic • Old Year Sum Up • Penguin Science Fiction • Pocket Books • space • space sheep • space ships • strange creature • Tower books • wolf • WTF
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: artists in the comments • baldy bad man • busy hands • cleavage • damsel • dragon • evil • hunk • 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
Mar 23
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Zycrow’s Art Direction:
“So the art director told me he needed hot air balloons and they needed to be badass. How am I going to do that?”
“Easy. Add spikes.”
“Oh, that’s good. Like how many? Three? Four?”
“All of them. All of the spikes. Oh, and a dinosaur, and some wolves. That oughta cover it.”
Published 1980
Many thanks to Zycrow!
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • cliffs • dagger • damsel • forest • Graham Diamond • gun • hot air balloons • inadequate armor • Playboy Paperbacks • spikes • strange creature • talons • Walter Velez • wings • wolf
Jan 21
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Tally ho! Well good chap I’ll have the one with swords and those smashing old wizards praising a big wolf in the clouds!
Published 2000
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Good show old bean, I’ll go for the one with double swords, a buxom beauty and a mighty cape. Spiffing!
Published 1993
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Tagged with: baldness • beard-wielding • bladed weapons • booties • bracers • capes • cleavage • clouds • daggers • damsel • DAW Books • floating head • forest • Fred Gambino • headband • hunk • inadequate armor • Jody Lee • long haired men • magic • Mickey Zucker Reichert • Millennium Books • mountains • muscles • once you see it • Renshai Chronicles • robes • shields • shoulder pads • strange creature • sword • wizaaaaaaaard • wolf
Oct 15
I have been enjoying the delights of Helsinki this week and I have had a wonderful time. Well, except for the price of beer! 7 Euros for a pint! It makes me want to cry!
In honour I decided to search through a couple of the book shops here for the Finnish versions of some popular Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Some of them are just a little odd and a couple do make me laugh.
I hope you all enjoy these wonderful covers!
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Tagged with: archery weapons • Arthur C. Clarke • baldness • beard-wielding • bladed weapons • cloaks • Damm Forlag Books • damsel • David Eddings • David Gemmell • eyepatch • floating face • font problems • horses • hunk • Jalava Books • Karisto Books • magic • male skirts • meteor • monks • once you see it • planets • pole weapons • Robert Jordan • shortbow • Stephen R. Lawhead • strange creature • sword • wizaaaaaaaard • wolf
Nov 24
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You know the two things that make everything look fantastic? Glow and blur. The best photoshop tools money can buy. So we’ll have a glowing blurry tattooed man with a wolves head! And some girl with some glowly blurry transparency around her. Make sure the title is huge and don’t forget to blur what you can.
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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Darren Hopes • fairies • glow • HarperCollins Books • magic • Melissa Marr • once you see it • strange creature • tattoo • unknown artist • wolf • wolf people
Nov 19
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A heavily armoured sword wielding knight on a metal horse attacks some smoking animals. Why are they smoking? For effect my dear boy! And possibly magic. Anyway, make sure those animals are mean! I want red eyes and snarls!
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Tagged with: Ace Books • bear • bladed weapons • Christopher Stasheff • glowing eyes • horses • knights • lion • magic • once you see it • robo-horse • shields • Stephen Hickman • strange creature • sword • Warlock series • wolf
Oct 07
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I want you to listen to me, very carefully! Wolf howls up to the sky while a dragon flies in the background with a knight on its back. Again in the foreground a bowl cut man stands, his hand grasped firmly and suggestively around his sword. If you want to see your family again you will draw what I tell you.
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Tagged with: bird • bladed weapons • damsel • dragon • knights • puffy shirt • Robin Hobb • Stephen Youll • sword • The Farseer series • waistcoat • wolf
Sep 22
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I’m not one to stray from tradition. I’m talking about a dragon in the background, as black as…. uh… AC/DC? Peering at our antagonist will be a huge white wolf and her damsel companion holding the tiniest of flames. Remember, I am also talking traditional proportions here, so make sure nothing is sized relative to anything else. Now who’s up for some Hells’ Bells?
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Tagged with: anatomical issues • bladed weapons • daggers • damsel • dragon • fire • Firekeeper Saga series • Jane Lindskold • Julie Bell • Tor Books • wolf
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