Most album covers were a picture of the band shot in a studio in London. But the record company looked at me in surprise, and the little sketch I had, and they said, what? You want to take a hundred red footballs to the Sahara Desert? It was unheard of in those days. I went to see Keith Emerson, who was the leader of the band, and he loved it. “ It was the first time that Storm and I realized that we could have an album cover that was a piece of land art. There’s something poetic about the simplicity of it.” And that kind of lateral thinking worked incredibly well at Tower Records, where you had 10,000 albums and this one stood out a mile. Blew it up in the darkroom and took it to Abbey Road Studios and the band went, ‘Yeah, that’s it.’ No name on the cover, no title. We jumped out the car, took some pictures, and somehow got an extraordinary photograph of a cow looking straight at us with a rather amused look. So Storm and I drove out to North London where there were some fields and found beautiful cow, actually called Lulubelle III. “ We were sitting around trying to think of something different for Pink Floyd and somebody said, ‘Why don’t you put something incredibly mundane and ordinary on the cover?’ Something very Dada-esque, like Marcel Duchamp’s urinal, and somebody suggested a cow. It was so amateur, but it was the start of our career.” The text is a simple letterset I bought from a news agent that you just rubbed on with a pencil. After days of trying, I came up with the end result, which I then hand-tinted with inks, a very old Victorian style of making postcards. I worked it out in the darkroom by printing various different images and masking off with my hands, using different negatives, stuff like that. If you look at the cover, it’s got Doctor Strange from the Marvel Comics, alchemical imagery, space imagery, it’s a mélange of different things that represented Pink Floyd at the time. In those days, Pink Floyd was an underground band in London that played what they used to call space rock, s o we knew it had to be a montage of various elements. They were talking about their next album cover and Storm said, ‘Why don’t you let us have a go?’ Cause we’d been experimenting with infrared photography for book covers. “Pink Floyd were friends of Storm and myself from Cambridge, and they’d just really started out. PINK FLOYD | A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS (1968) Following the film’s release, Corbijn and Powell joined us on Zoom and Powell shared some anecdotes about inflating footballs in the desert and setting men on fire, all for that perfect shot. In Corbijn’s new documentary, Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis), fans get a look into the wild stories behind some of their favorite throwback covers, from AC/DC to Zeppelin. I think it’s the most recognizable album sleeve of all time,” says director Anton Corbijn of Dark Side of the Moon, the Pink Floyd album whose cover art is now so ubiquitous you’ll find it on pins and t-shirts at Walmart. Few people understood this better than Aubrey “Po” Powell and Storm Thorgerson of design collective Hipgnosis, whose iconic, pop-surrealist cover artworks vivified the trippy rock albums of the 60s and 70s. "Firefly: The Fall Guys #1" lands September 6 sporting a main cover from the Eisner-winning artist Francesco Francavilla ("Night of the Ghoul"), in addition to special variants by Justine Florentino ("Grim"), Ejikure ("Batman: Urban Legends"), and Ariel Olivetti ("Cable").In the heyday of the record sleeve, music was a much more aesthetic pursuit. The Western essence of the series will be VERY present. "Sam's script is giving me a great time drawing lots of adventure and fun. "Although it's not the first time I've worked on 'Firefly,' each time is new and special," Perez adds. Boom!'s shiny 'Firefly: Keep Flying' one-shot comic is an early holiday treatīased in Ourense, Spain, artist Jordi Perez has had a prolific last three years, as his impressive work has appeared in Boom! Studios' "Firefly ," Dynamite Entertainment titles like "James Bond," "Red Sonja," "Vampirella," "Rocketman and Rocketgirl," and "Xena," Vault Comics' "Queen of Bad Dreams," Ahoy Comics' "Cryptid Story," Z2 Comics' "Hotel Diablo," and "Machine Gun Kelly." Exclusive First Look: New 'Firefly' graphic novel 'Watch How I Soar' reveals Wash's tale Salute the enduring spirit of the 'Verse with this shiny new 'Firefly-Artbook
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