Cover art for a Sunday
As a kid I was fascinated by the Carter Brown mystery novels (a pseudonym for Australian writer Alan Yates), purely because of the sexy (and obviously sexual) women decorating the …
Tag: cover art
Did you know that sex sells?
And nobody knows that better than paperback cover illustrators, as you’ll see. First, this one by Roger Kastel.Here’s an uncredited cover that implies something really scandalous. My online research hasn’t …
Time is the fire in which we burn? Why didn’t anyone tell me!
Which is to say I had no time to write a post for today. Instead, let’s look at some paperback covers, shall we? Specifically the work of Jack Gaughan who …
The effect of being social off-line —
—is that I have less time to blog. TYG’s schedule has freed up which means mine frees up. Plus we’re working on doing more couple stuff, something we got out …
RIP James Bama
So Sunday, April 24, James Bama died. He’s best known for his work as a Western artist but for me he’s first and foremost the definitive Doc Savage paperback artist.I …
Shall we look at some interesting cover art? Yes, we shall
As my paying gigs (or hopefully paying in the case of fiction) are taking up a lot of energy, this is the best I can manage. But it’s eye candy, …
Oddball pulp and paperback covers
I love cover art, particularly from the days when the covers worked to reach out and grab you to make you buy them. But sometimes the effort to become interesting …