90's Comics #1
Man, comics in the mid 90's really sucked, what the fuck was wrong with the artists back then?
Old Books From the Garbage #2
The Life and Times of Chaucer
by John Gardner
My favorite though, is the knight in battle at the bottom there. Is he wearing glasses? In 1488 or whenever? Really? And with very neatly parted, suspiciously 1977-esque hair. I have a feeling the author may have hidden his own portrait there. He would. The kind of guy who would paint out this little scene, well, he's just the type to very obviously hide his own image in the illustration, as the lead knight no less.
by John Gardner
I like this cover because It's actually not all that well done. Also it was published in 1977 but when I found this in the garbage, it looks like it's 80 years old. The book itself was basically so boring it was unreadable. I never read Chaucer though, so there was simply no interest in it for me.
My favorite though, is the knight in battle at the bottom there. Is he wearing glasses? In 1488 or whenever? Really? And with very neatly parted, suspiciously 1977-esque hair. I have a feeling the author may have hidden his own portrait there. He would. The kind of guy who would paint out this little scene, well, he's just the type to very obviously hide his own image in the illustration, as the lead knight no less.
Old Books From the Garbage #1
In what will be an ongoing series I present book #1, The Bolshevik Revolution Vol. 3 by E.H. Carr.
As we all know, many decades ago real artists were employed to make book covers, and they all look like the hippest thing you've ever seen, that's why Urban Outfitters steals all the ideas for their tshirts. Today we got a giant puffy-silver stamping of the author's shitty fake name in 128-point font, and then a CGI rose dripping blood with a diamond in the middle, or some such pathetic horse shit. Point being, these books I find in the garbage, people want to save these covers, or at least, wierdos (yeah, it's pretty wierd to collect garbage sure) like me, where as the new badly designed book covers today won't be treasured by anyone.
I flipped through this book and it was really boring. They usually are. Boring.
As we all know, many decades ago real artists were employed to make book covers, and they all look like the hippest thing you've ever seen, that's why Urban Outfitters steals all the ideas for their tshirts. Today we got a giant puffy-silver stamping of the author's shitty fake name in 128-point font, and then a CGI rose dripping blood with a diamond in the middle, or some such pathetic horse shit. Point being, these books I find in the garbage, people want to save these covers, or at least, wierdos (yeah, it's pretty wierd to collect garbage sure) like me, where as the new badly designed book covers today won't be treasured by anyone.
I flipped through this book and it was really boring. They usually are. Boring.
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