'Venus Smiles’: one of five Ballardian ‘ads’ published in Ambit magazine (designer: J.G. Ballard; Ambit, #46, Winter 1970/71)
The incomparable Dali; a very successful union (artist: Salvador Dali; Jonathan Cape, London, 1970)LEFT: A Mike Foreman illustration for Doubleday’s edition of The Atrocity Exhibition (Doubleday, NY, 1970)
RIGHT: A Phoebe Gloeckner illustration for the RE/Search reprint (RE/Search, San Francisco, 1990)
Thanks for the plug! Enjoy my rant!
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ReplyDeleteThanx I really did enjoy yr rant...it has always struck me how bad a lot of covers were for authors such as WSB & Ballard. It was as you say the 'spectre of sci-fi' was forever going to haunt them!
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