Monday, 4 January 2010

What's He On About? 2

In the comments to the last post, about the supposedly semi-pornographic Agnes Owens cover, the multiply wise Brian Busby points out that "Gray is as wonderful a designer as he is a writer [which] makes his comment even more mysterious." And it's a damn good point. Here, for example, are three of Alasdair Gray's own illustratated covers for three of his own books, all of which are much more explicit than the cover he had a go at.


 
 


Genitals, pubic hair and breasts surely beat topless children in the pornography stakes. Mysterious.
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous4 January 2010 at 22:13

    You forgot to mention female armpit hair.

    Yikes.

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  2. JRSM4 January 2010 at 23:27

    They're earthy Celtic ladies; they don't have time to mess about with razors!

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  3. Bob Fingerman5 January 2010 at 23:12

    Those covers are pretty awful. Not Changeling Press awful, but awful nonetheless.

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  4. JRSM6 January 2010 at 13:27

    As long as you can say that something is not Changeling Press awful, you know it's not all bad.

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