The illustrations are lots of fun and in some cases - a woman riding a pack of chewing gum - funny.
Ed Mironiuk ... has been the illustrator for Tattoo Magazine for the past eleven years and also creates work for everything from Marquis to the Genitorturers. When not illustrating the inked he feeds the creative monkey on his back liberal doses of lowbrow art, fetish mags, japanese culture, and dirty pictures.
Slate has a trashy paperback cover sideshow:
In the 1950s, some publishing houses opted to release literary fiction with pulp covers. A striking edition of The Sheltering Sky, for example, promised "a strange tale in the exotic desert"—a tagline that is, when you think about it, both pulpy and apt. Taking such efforts as our inspiration, we asked a handful of designers to create lurid new book jackets for classics from The Iliad to Animal Farm. Click here to see the results.