Wednesday 8 February 2012

The Covers of Ralph Steadman [Massive Update]

In 2008 I featured a look at some of the many book covers by the great, savage cartoonist Ralph Steadman. Now, thanks to contributions from collector David C Smith, who provuided the bulk of the images below, here is a much bigger selection of Steadman's cover work.






 
























































I think that's 72 92 covers, which is a fun bit of uploading when Blooger keeps going demented and losing your uploads halfway through. Thanks again to David Smith!
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9 comments:

  1. Ian Koviak8 February 2012 at 16:52

    Wow. Brilliant collection here. Thanks for the post.

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  2. weaver8 February 2012 at 18:42

    Does Paranoids count?

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  3. JRSM8 February 2012 at 18:45

    Ooh, nice one!

    There's going to be a follow-up post with more Steadmans soon--Paranoids is definitely going into it.

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  4. Tororo9 February 2012 at 00:03

    Bravo! That's some update.

    (I love how Thomson's Shark Hunt's cover illustration looks "steadmanesque", while featuring just Steadman's handwriting and no drawing)

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  5. HENRY FRY11 February 2012 at 14:09

    epic.

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  6. Oscar Grillo11 February 2012 at 23:21

    Beautiful, but I can't believe that Minite's by Randolph Stow was drawn by Steadman.......

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  7. JRSM12 February 2012 at 00:59

    Slightly embarrassingly, you are correct! I've put in the actual Steadman cover for Midnite... Sorry about that!

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  8. Kendall Defoe18 February 2012 at 17:16

    Good list here!

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  9. Unknown31 May 2013 at 04:16

    Great collection, Ralph Steadman is probably my favourite artist

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