Record covers drawn by comic book artists

http://ppostcards.com/2009/mus/09mus420.jpg
(slightly better pic of drucker anthrax)

what do you do..
when the magic's gonE?

OTC?

Sergio Aragonés:

http://i53.tinypic.com/906kom.jpg

http://twentydollars.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/148601173_d337010b3b.jpg

I saw this cassette in a thrift store in high school and got it just because of the cover art. I had seen just a few Mark Beyer panels in a book about comics but I wanted to read his stuff so bad. This was the closest I could get. I bought it and it was responsible for getting me into Zorn and Coleman. Thanks Mark Beyer!

he also did this:

http://www.mackron.com/pics/von/coldcut.jpg

whoops, already up there.

That's definitely Gibbons on the Kula Shaker, IIRC he did the singles as well.

Just remembered Phil Jimenez did a? some? Kula Shaker singles. Though I can't find anything on the interwebs that looks like either of them, bar the album, so maybe I still R incorrectly.

http://images.sabob.com/products/images/1/Summer_Sun_EP.jpeg

This one looks like Jimenez to me.

http://www.arachnidrecords.com/images/recordimages/kray.jpg
Gary Panter

the elephants do, but the main motorcycle robot didn't, to me

I dunno, maybe not the design, but the detailed linework on the robot and motorcycle is very much Jimenez.

Confirmed here.

i was gonna say, the motorcycle looks Very Jimenez to me

Never realised Gibbons did that Kula Shaker record, but it's so obvious in retrospect. Good grief.

barry windsor-smith
http://www.comicdom.gr/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/barry-windsor-smith_byrds_preflyte.jpg

there are a load more of these here.
and here.

Lol at this one:

http://metalitalia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Iced-Earth-The-Dark-Saga-1996-570x563.jpg

Did McFarlane just give the band an unused piece of Spawn art, or did they specifically want Spawn to be on their album cover?

The Dark Saga is a concept album based on the Todd McFarlane comic book character Spawn

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Machine_Head_-_Burn_My_Eyes.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Machine_Head_-_Burn_My_Eyes.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8NhpFzZIlKQ/TMHFGpoGm_I/AAAAAAAAA9U/oWxNCGFSXlI/s400/1231879463685_f.jpg

http://blog-imgs-23.fc2.com/f/r/a/fractalism/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia.jpg

^ Hunt Emerson

http://acimg.auctivacommerce.com/imgdata/0/1/0/6/9/6/webimg/6547688.jpg

^ Gary Panter

Use Your Illusion too obvious to mention I guess

http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/T/tad_loserf.jpg

^ back cover of Tad's Loser by Peter Bagge

Use Your Illusion too obvious to mention I guess

Wikipedia says the cover was designed by someone called Mark Kostabi, can't find any info that he ever was a comic book artist?

think Nick prob means Appetite for Destruction, which had a Robert Williams painting on the cover, tho iirc the painting existed before the alb, so doesn't count under sic's 'no satriani' ruling

oh shit yes, i totally meant app for destruction, fucking dingbat

me not you

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/51/Dingbatsdcu0.jpg/250px-Dingbatsdcu0.jpg

ha, that's me on the right obv

http://www.bobleroi.co.uk/Sales/Records/IMG_4860a.jpg

^ Hunt Emerson also did this painting which probably falls foul of the sic clause, but he did these pictures that got used on various records too:

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/19/1c/39/191c39b6e0e71acfaae5fa2ddad0f222.jpghttp://www.djfood.org/djfood/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Beatmobile.jpghttp://www.matthew-lambert.co.uk/images/skagirldance.gif

http://eil.com/images/main/Senseless+Things+-+Got+It+At+The+Delmar+E.P.+-+12%22+RECORD%2FMAXI+SINGLE-272505.jpg

^ Jamie Hewlett did a bunch of stuff for the Senseless Things

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1kh3IOTUaUg/Ts50hBsPATI/AAAAAAAABQQ/y_Ooh4dEI3g/s1600/davis+Spike.jpg

^ Jack Davis

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2011/06/patrick-cowley---megatron-man1-1307498716.jpeg

Dean Motter created Mister X when doing the art for a version of Patrick Cowley's Megatron Man LP.

Jim Woodring's first record cover was for the Christmas album Vortex.

Ed Brubaker did a cover for a San Diego band called Field Trip in around '91.

P Craig Russell has done several covers for the new music label Bridge Records, including a couple of stunners in their George Crumb series.

Woodring did the critter on the front of El Oso by Soul Coughing, but not the design, I assume

crumb has done a ton of these.

http://www.timesquotidian.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/hotwomencover.jpg

Moebius did a shit ton too, tho mostly for European recording artists. (Hendrix outtakes album a notable exception)

This guy has extensive very impressive lists...
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/snellius/record_covers_drawn_designed_by_comic_artists_and_cartoonists__an_overview/
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/snellius/record_covers_drawn_designed_by_comic_artists_____in_progress__/

A huge database...
http://ronaldk.home.xs4all.nl/index2.html

Suehiro Maruo did lots of japanese punk albums, I think some John Zorn too. Awesome stuff.
http://www.kurutta.com/2009/04/suehiro-maruos-cd-covers.html

Danzig and Rob Zombie got a lot of comic artists to do their covers. Joe Chiodo, Simon Bisley, Gene Colan and more.

I'm sure that guy who does dinosaurs and movie concept art did a Who live album cover. Cant remember his name.

william stout?

Yes!

They are mostly bootleg covers but I listened to an interview where he told this story once that he tells here, pretty funny...
http://www.examiner.com/article/interview-artist-william-stout-talks-about-bootlegs-and-beatlesongs-part-1

Another Zorn this time by Kiriko Kubo

http://www.wayno.com/words/zornhysterie.jpg

Another Rick Griffin:
http://i.imgur.com/rjlzWZ0.jpg?1

Mick McMahon did the sleeve for Darren Hayman's "The Violence" (which may be a broken link upthread for all I know):

http://www.hefnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Mini-Violence-600-300x300.png

He writes interestingly about the process here: http://tuggingyourcoat.com/2012/07/31/twisting-in-the-wind/