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[Digney in Burnaby]

The illustrator won an award for these.

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/emiliano-ponzi-charles-bukowski

 

[Black Swan]

Nice find, DiB. I am not crazy about the style but liked the first one. For some reason, the character looks more like Ben Gazzara :wb:

 

[hoochmonkey9]

I like the one for Pulp.

 

[hank solo]

I quite like them. He does look like Gazzara. I like Pulp too, and 'When we were young' (ferris wheel) and Hollywood.

Title translations courtesy of google translate:

• Companion booze
• The Captain is Out to Lunch
• When we were young
• Tales of Ordinary Madness
• What matters is scratch beneath the armpits
• Pulp. A history of the twentieth century
• I write poetry only to sleep with girls.
• Hollywood, Hollywood!
• Music for warm bodies

 

[d gray]

yeah, the pulp cover was good.

instead of a 'lady death' handjob, it might've worked better if he had the john barton character screwing him.

 

[Bukfan]

I kinda like the "Compagno Di Sbronze" cover, although it does play a lot on the Buk image.

I also liked the cigarette smoke becoming an image of Buk on the "Storie Di Ordinaria Follia" cover, but placing a rose between the girl's legs is'nt exactly a new idea. That's a pretty old one, in fact. Placing some other kinda flower, or even a cactus, would have been more interesting.

The cover for "Musica Per Organi Caldi" seems a bit weird to me, because I can't see Buk wearing an American flag or be interested in it in any way, shape or form. He was never a flag waver, i think.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

but placing a rose between the girl's legs is'nt exactly a new idea. That's a pretty old one, in fact.

absolutely.

 

[Black Swan]

yeah, the pulp cover was good.

instead of a 'lady death' handjob, it might've worked better if he had the john barton character screwing him.

A good 24 hours before I got the joke. It is funny and I also like that cover. :)

 

[d gray]

that's pretty quick for my jokes. most of them never get 'got' at all.

and i still haven't even read that book.

 

[roni]

they're not exactly my style.
But good to see them.