Josh Kirby's Discworld

The Haunters and the Haunted, paperback cover by Josh Kirby, 1963

Hurok of the Stone Age by Lin Carter, cover by Josh Kirby (1981)

💀art by Josh Kirby, Peter Goodfellow, Rodney Matthews, Colin Hay

You forget how breathtakingly awful the Josh Kirby Discworld covers are until you stumble across one after a long absence and stare dumbfounded at how literally nauseating they are. How many millions of potential readers couldn't get past the stomach-churning grotesques that time and time again seemed to be only tenuously connected to the book in question? Pratchett, a deft master of plotting and piercingly insightful wordcraft, in Josh Kirby covers is portrayed again and again as a writer of pantomime in which the novel's whole cast will seemingly blunder around on stage in an orgy of pratfalls and buffoonery. They're so overdrawn, so cluttered, so fleshy, so sweaty they make me ill just thinking about them.

Josh Kirby’s illustrations for Discworld

I love Terry Pratchett books :)

Josh Kirby’s 1970 cover to Suzette Haden Elgin’s The Communipaths

Off to see Wyrd Sisters tonight, at the theatre! Feels so fancy <3

I remember seeing a Witches Abroad production when I was a teen!

I wish Terry was still with us.

crowley is green on the german book cover btw

and the title translates to "a good omen. the completely different witch novel"

:) I love Josh Kirby's covers

Cover art for Terry Pratchett's 1991 Discworld book Reaper Man, by Josh Kirby.

Reaper Man Cover Art by Josh Kirby

𝔍𝔬𝔰𝔥 𝔎𝔦𝔯𝔟𝔶

The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Illustration by Josh Kirby

also, look at the original cover for Soul Music. this fuckin whips

'Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi' by Josh Kirby.

Josh Kirby