Category Archives: cover art

Robert McGinnis is a name I associate primarily with bad-girl or at least sexy-girl paperback covers, such as these.

While I associate him mainly with hardboiled paperback PIs — obviously he knows how to draw the kind of women who turn up in those — unsurprisingly he drew other things. This swashbuckler cover, for instance.

Though he still works in a nude woman. And then there’s this one —

Quite different from his other works; the cover suggests sex is in the air but it doesn’t slap us with it (not that I object to covers that slap us with sex). I’ve no idea who Alan R. Jackson is but if I’d seen this in a store, I’d have looked it over, maybe read the first page or two. So McGinniss did his job.

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No reviews until next week, but cool illustrations!

First one by Richard Powers.

Coincidentally, an uncredited-art cover with another bridge in similar disrepair.

Next, one by Ed Emshwiller. Don’t have the other side of this Ace Double.

And finally a Kelly Freas cover. I don’t think I ever read any Laser Books but I do like Raymond Jones.

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First, Richard Powers, depicting science fiction as only he does.

Second, an Ed Emshwiller cover.

And last, this uncredited one.

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Don’t know the artist but I do like the cover.

A chaotic laboratory scene by William Timmins

I’m not sure what’s happening on this Robert Stanley cover but I like it.

And a Sex Sells cover by Charles Binger to wrap up.

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First, one by Otto Storch.

A low-key one by A. Leslie Ross, but I like it.

This one I’m posting mostly because it’s a relic of another time, when the “great white hunter” surrounded by his faithful African servants was a common thing to read about. Art is uncredited.

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From what I’ve been able to glean online, it’s some kind of Gothic romance but the title …

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Gervasio Gallardo’s The Last Unicorn.

Happy Friday

This one’s uncredited but it looks cool.

I like this David Pelham cover. And it fits Sheckley’s warped sensibilities.

One by Katherine Jeff Jones (she transitioned later in life).

And to wrap up, one by Jack Gaughan.

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