Record covers drawn by comic book artists

Does Savage Pencil count?

http://www.gardenofearthlydelights.com/fall4.gif

yeah groundhogs is neal adams

chris ware
http://static.boomkat.com/images/223192/333.jpg

more r crumb
http://web.comhem.se/~u87009324/images/css2.jpg

mike royer, best known for inking Jack Kirby in the 70s, did a whole series of these, they even tell a story

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UxVFHqTu-GQ/SE_BjuzHw9I/AAAAAAAAAuk/N9F_j5uKFXM/s320/Cruisin65cover.jpg

of course sav counts!

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/monocle/the_album_art_of_chris_ware/

these are all great covers, srsly

drawn & curated by SavX, w/ picture disc (and the best album evah)

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/angel-dust.jpg

another Beyer:

http://suspended-in-gaffa.com/SIG_05/SIG_coldcut.jpg

This one is none-more-Ware in person, not only does it fold out into an oversized cartographoic artefact, but the booklet is a tiny faux-newspaper tucked inside
http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/79/OhTheGrandeur.jpg

my vanished one upthread was McKean on the soundtrack to The Piano btw

when I met one ilx0r for the first time, I squinted at the tat on her arm and said "Jim Woodring?" She was amused that I'd picked that rather than recognising the source:

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c120/OrcusMars/SoulCoughing-ElOso.jpg

Millionaire:

http://www.theymightbegiants.com/shop/images/96

Revess:

http://albumdujour.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/theymightbegiants-longtallweekend.jpg

Oh yeah, Marek:

http://tmbw.net/wiki/images/thumb/a/a5/HotelDetectiveEP.png/600px-HotelDetectiveEP.png

Jack Davis did a LOT of covers, here's another one:

http://i49.tinypic.com/ncdvdg.jpg

also see the Yazoo (the label) discography for a lot more Crumb

I don't know if Jim Baikie is a famous artist or not but I really like this comic art cover:

Kilban:

http://i50.tinypic.com/16byovc.jpg

sorry, this is the Baikie cover:

http://i49.tinypic.com/21q15y.jpg

Bob Camp:

http://i45.tinypic.com/jrd1qw.jpg

Baikie is much more of a comic book artist than Bob Camp!

ha yeah I know Camp is better known for animation but I really like that cover.

I have another Dame Darcy cover for a Kittywinder CD, but this 7" is the only one the internet knows about (and is enormous)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RJvmCHw__o8/Sd9k7_7r-_I/AAAAAAAAAMA/tPQIsIi4Wlw/s1600-h/kittywinder+-+bats.JPG

too enormous to post apparently

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/kittywinder-bats.jpg

I couldn't find it on-line, but I am pretty sure Jack Davis did a portrait of Anthrax back in the 80s.

it was by mort drucker, but i can only find this teeny version online:

http://images.auctionworks.com/hi/44/44048/anthrax88_89tb.jpg

Too obvious?

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/1808/gorillazr.jpg

The booklet from Eels "Electroshock Blues" featured cartoons by Adrian Tomine, Chester Brown, Seth, and Debbie Dreschler. But can I find a scan anywhere online? Can I heck. I've only got the cassette version here, and they're all tiny and barely legible.

That's cheating, probably, but this one with the same drummer isn't:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/hewlett-senseless.jpg

and you reminded me, Eels blokey also used Brunetti on this:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/49290.jpg?t=1276302930

and Tomine on this:
http://www.eelstheband.com/discography/images/cancersingledsclg.jpg

Another one that might be too obvious to post but so what

Richard Corben:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Bat_out_of_Hell.jpg

Wow...that one is a mind blower in a way, I don't think I had ever put 2 and 2 together to realize 'Bat out of Hell' was done by Corben. I got that Groundhogs album by Adams back in the 80s because it was drawn by Adams only much much later to come to dig their music.

since I did a Xaime already...

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/recordcovers/R-396636-1155463186.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/recordcovers/R-921004-1173005255.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/recordcovers/R-921913-1173119587.jpg

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_2lEM_YCRcuU/SACef_33CtI/AAAAAAAAW20/Pa4gQJZ-79g/rw-ic.jpg

Quitely and Morrison designed the artwork for this

quitely also drew this cov, dunno what the music's like

http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/73/l_fca52e02f63345ddba78a7f3a506971a.jpg

note that Quitely and Morrison did the entire booklet for that Bob W album, not just the cover

Just looked up Phantom Band out of curiosity and they're dull as only a Scottish indie band can be.

Quitely is Scottish too, isn't he? Maybe he knows the band personally or something.

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/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/