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Megan Burns' art spoofs and celebrates the sexiness of space opera. Her new gallery show, opening tomorrow in New York, pays homage to paperback book covers and comic book art, with hypnorays, alien life forms, and beautiful bodies. Possibly NSFW? More »
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Terra was the most important postwar science fiction magazine in West Germany — and its covers were bursting with strange monsters and weird struggles in outer space. The Monster Brains blog has gathered some of the greatest monster-focused covers. More »
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Axe Cop, the webcomic created by a six-year-old and his 29-year-old artist brother, is now getting the comic book treatment from Dark Horse. Here's an exclusive first look at the cover for Axe Cop's upcoming miniseries, Bad Guy Earth. More »
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Tales of the Unexpected was a long-running DC scifi/horror series that specialized in stories about stuff nobody anticipated would happen. Its covers were also unexpectedly unexpected, and we can learn a lot about expectations just by looking at them. Unexpected. More »
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Next time someone asks you to explain True Blood to them, just hold up this Rolling Stone cover. Yep, that about does it. I can't help but wonder if there's another picture of a vampire "wobbly H" inside. [RS] More »
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More often than not, the covers of old-school horror comics were more baffling than scary. Titles like Tales from the Crypt and House of Mystery promised chills but delivered befuddlement. Here are 100+ of the most inexplicable (with captions). [Via Comic Covers] More »
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This may be one of the greatest Superman covers ever. Frank Quitely does it again with this amazing cover to the Absolute Edition of All Star Superman. [The Source via Comic Book Resources] More »
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What do you think is happening on this book cover? Even the poor unicorn looks confused. Our new favorite blog is Good Show Sir, in which the worst SF and fantasy book covers are thrust in our faces. (Possibly NSFW.) More »
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What if Tony Stark was born in the Paleolithic or Middle Ages? The newest slew of Iron Man By Design variant covers re-imagine the hero as a crusader, a cowboy, and a cro-magnon. More »
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Nothing is more terrifying, more mentally scarring, than the giant-head book cover. They loom off the cardstock, their huge eyes bugging out. Nothing inside the pages could be this horrifying. Here are our favorite massive-headed book covers of all time. More »
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Robert Goodin's blog Covered invites artists to remix and reinterpret their favorite comic book covers, resulting in fun and funky covers of classic superhero art. More »
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This tag cloud, depicting all the words that go into the worst science-fiction book titles, is a thing of absolute beauty. Orbit Books created it out of the 350 submissions for its "worst cover ever" drive. And the finalists are... More »
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Orbit Books is trying to create the worst science fiction book cover of all time — but they're up against stiff competition. Details, and a gallery of some of our fave bad covers, are below. More »
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How do you explain the awesomeness of The Middleman, ABC Family's shortlived series about a young artist who gets apprenticed to the world's most strait-laced superhero? That's the dilemma Shout Factory faced in creating a cover for the DVD set, and they considered a dozen psychedelic options. Gallery below. More »
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Yesterday, we took a journey into the unknown, with fantastic images that could have been science-fiction book covers or rock album covers. Today, the unbelievable truth is revealed! More »
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This cover art for Andre Norton's Three Against The Witch World crackles with eldritch insanity - and that's before you realize that artist Harry Borgman used himself and his wife as the models. More »
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Look at the Russian cover for Robert Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land: It's like one of Caravaggio's Bible scenes: lurid, fiery, over-the-top and awesome. It should surprise nobody that Heinlein and Philip K. Dick were fantastically popular in the U.S.S.R., with their sharp social commentary and crazy plot devices. The Russian Science Fiction page (in English, luckily) has a bunch of Heinlein and Dick covers, and we have a gallery of our favorites below. More »
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