Record covers drawn by comic book artists

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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

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

one year passes...

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

los blue jeans, Friday, 8 May 2015 02:47 (eight 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


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