Record covers drawn by comic book artists

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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

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

one month passes...

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

three months pass...

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

two months pass...

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.jpg
Gary 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

two years pass...

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

Use Your Illusion too obvious to mention I guess

gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 11:01 (ten years ago) link

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

^ back cover of Tad's Loser by Peter Bagge

gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 11:02 (ten years ago) link

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?

Tuomas, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 11:41 (ten years ago) link

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

Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 11:45 (ten years ago) link

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

gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 11:47 (ten years ago) link

me not you

gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 11:48 (ten years ago) link

ha, that's me on the right obv

gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 11:52 (ten years ago) link

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

gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:00 (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://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


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