http://rateyourmusic.com/list/monocle/the_album_art_of_chris_ware/
these are all great covers, srsly
― apparently not the band, but the lifestyle (jjjusten), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
drawn & curated by SavX, w/ picture disc (and the best album evah)
http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/angel-dust.jpg
― shugazi (herb albert), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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 insidehttp://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/79/OhTheGrandeur.jpg
― on some kinda serial killer ish (sic), Thursday, 10 June 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― on some kinda serial killer ish (sic), Thursday, 10 June 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Millionaire:
http://www.theymightbegiants.com/shop/images/96
Revess:
http://albumdujour.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/theymightbegiants-longtallweekend.jpg
― on some kinda serial killer ish (sic), Thursday, 10 June 2010 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, Marek:
http://tmbw.net/wiki/images/thumb/a/a5/HotelDetectiveEP.png/600px-HotelDetectiveEP.png
― on some kinda serial killer ish (sic), Thursday, 10 June 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Jack Davis did a LOT of covers, here's another one:
http://i49.tinypic.com/ncdvdg.jpg
― GENE PITNEY'S SWEATER BY KANDAHAR (los blue jeans), Thursday, 10 June 2010 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
also see the Yazoo (the label) discography for a lot more Crumb
― GENE PITNEY'S SWEATER BY KANDAHAR (los blue jeans), Thursday, 10 June 2010 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― GENE PITNEY'S SWEATER BY KANDAHAR (los blue jeans), Thursday, 10 June 2010 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry, this is the Baikie cover:
http://i49.tinypic.com/21q15y.jpg
Bob Camp:
http://i45.tinypic.com/jrd1qw.jpg
― GENE PITNEY'S SWEATER BY KANDAHAR (los blue jeans), Thursday, 10 June 2010 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Baikie is much more of a comic book artist than Bob Camp!
― on some kinda serial killer ish (sic), Thursday, 10 June 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
ha yeah I know Camp is better known for animation but I really like that cover.
― GENE PITNEY'S SWEATER BY KANDAHAR (los blue jeans), Thursday, 10 June 2010 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― BIG SAUS aka the porkbanger (sic), Thursday, 10 June 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
too enormous to post apparently
― BIG SAUS aka the porkbanger (sic), Thursday, 10 June 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/kittywinder-bats.jpg
― BIG SAUS aka the porkbanger (sic), Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I couldn't find it on-line, but I am pretty sure Jack Davis did a portrait of Anthrax back in the 80s.
― earlnash, Friday, 11 June 2010 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
it was by mort drucker, but i can only find this teeny version online:
http://images.auctionworks.com/hi/44/44048/anthrax88_89tb.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 11 June 2010 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Pheeel, Friday, 11 June 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
That's cheating, probably, but this one with the same drummer isn't:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/hewlett-senseless.jpg
― BIG SAUS aka the porkbanger (sic), Saturday, 12 June 2010 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― BIG SAUS aka the porkbanger (sic), Saturday, 12 June 2010 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Chips Moleman (los blue jeans), Saturday, 12 June 2010 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Saturday, 12 June 2010 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― BIG SAUS aka the porkbanger (sic), Sunday, 13 June 2010 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_2lEM_YCRcuU/SACef_33CtI/AAAAAAAAW20/Pa4gQJZ-79g/rw-ic.jpg
Quitely and Morrison designed the artwork for this
― Number None, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
quitely also drew this cov, dunno what the music's like
http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/73/l_fca52e02f63345ddba78a7f3a506971a.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
note that Quitely and Morrison did the entire booklet for that Bob W album, not just the cover
― dyaon't (sic), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Just looked up Phantom Band out of curiosity and they're dull as only a Scottish indie band can be.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 09:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Quitely is Scottish too, isn't he? Maybe he knows the band personally or something.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://ppostcards.com/2009/mus/09mus420.jpg(slightly better pic of drucker anthrax)
― Worth waiting for the fannypunch at 4.02 (stevie), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 11:10 (thirteen years ago) link
what do you do..when the magic's gonE?
― hobbes, Friday, 23 July 2010 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
OTC?
― Nhex, Friday, 23 July 2010 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Sergio Aragonés:
http://i53.tinypic.com/906kom.jpg
― Multi-spectral Imogene (los blue jeans), Saturday, 30 October 2010 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Saturday, 30 October 2010 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
he also did this:
http://www.mackron.com/pics/von/coldcut.jpg
― dan selzer, Saturday, 30 October 2010 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
whoops, already up there.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 30 October 2010 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Sunday, 16 January 2011 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://images.sabob.com/products/images/1/Summer_Sun_EP.jpeg
This one looks like Jimenez to me.
― Tuomas, Monday, 17 January 2011 10:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.arachnidrecords.com/images/recordimages/kray.jpgGary Panter
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
the elephants do, but the main motorcycle robot didn't, to me
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Monday, 17 January 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno, maybe not the design, but the detailed linework on the robot and motorcycle is very much Jimenez.
Confirmed here.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i was gonna say, the motorcycle looks Very Jimenez to me
― Princess TamTam, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 00:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Never realised Gibbons did that Kula Shaker record, but it's so obvious in retrospect. Good grief.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 09:47 (thirteen years ago) link
barry windsor-smithhttp://www.comicdom.gr/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/barry-windsor-smith_byrds_preflyte.jpg
― fit and working again, Sunday, 10 November 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
there are a load more of these here.and here.
― fit and working again, Sunday, 10 November 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
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?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 08:20 (ten years ago) link
The Dark Saga is a concept album based on the Todd McFarlane comic book character Spawn
― sleepingsignal, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 10:07 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Machine_Head_-_Burn_My_Eyes.jpg
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 10:40 (ten years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8NhpFzZIlKQ/TMHFGpoGm_I/AAAAAAAAA9U/oWxNCGFSXlI/s400/1231879463685_f.jpg
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 10:41 (ten years ago) link
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
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:18 (ten years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1kh3IOTUaUg/Ts50hBsPATI/AAAAAAAABQQ/y_Ooh4dEI3g/s1600/davis+Spike.jpg
^ Jack Davis
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:26 (ten years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Pressgang Wolf (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
Woodring did the critter on the front of El Oso by Soul Coughing, but not the design, I assume
― ͼѾͽ (sic), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
crumb has done a ton of these.
http://www.timesquotidian.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/hotwomencover.jpg
― sleepingsignal, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
Moebius did a shit ton too, tho mostly for European recording artists. (Hendrix outtakes album a notable exception)
― Pressgang Wolf (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 20:07 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
william stout?
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
Yes!
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
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
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
Another Zorn this time by Kiriko Kubo
http://www.wayno.com/words/zornhysterie.jpg
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
Another Rick Griffin:http://i.imgur.com/rjlzWZ0.jpg?1
― los blue jeans, Friday, 8 May 2015 02:47 (nine years ago) link
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/
― Tim, Monday, 11 May 2015 10:42 (eight years ago) link