David Bowie Songs Reimagined as Pulp Fiction E-book Covers: Area Oddity, Heroes, Lifestyles on Mars & Extra

Within the remaining yr, display­author Todd Alcott’s hob­through has blown up right into a respectable facet occupation.

This Etsy promote­er isn’t ped­dling kom­bucha SCOBYs, let­ter press­ing new child announce­ments, or repur­pos­ing outdated barns to be used as lower­ting forums.

No, Alcott’s cunning for­tunes fall sq.­ly at the inter­sec­tion of pulp fic­tion and rock and roll, with clas­sic tune titles, lyrics, and oth­er cun­ning ref­er­ences replac­ing the cov­er textual content of pre-exist­ing vin­tage paper­backs.

David Bowie’s existence­lengthy fas­ci­na­tion with area trav­el, tor­tured anti heroes, and out­ra­geous fash­ion make him a nat­ur­al are compatible with Alcott’s ongo­ing challenge, which has lav­ished sim­i­lar atten­tion on such lumi­nar­ies as Bob Dylan, Radio­head, Communicate­ing Heads, and Elvis Costel­lo.

As Alcott, who con­ceives of his mash ups as trib­utes to his very long time musi­cal favorites, instructed Open Cul­ture:

Bowie dressed as an androg­y­nous alien, went out onstage and instructed his audi­ence “You’re now not on my own, give me your arms,” I will be able to’t recall to mind a extra encom­move­ing ges­ture to a mis­are compatible. No mat­ter how bizarre you have been for your com­mu­ni­ty, you might at all times in finding some­one such as you at a Bowie con­cert. Dur­ing a time of my existence once I felt incred­i­bly iso­lat­ed and on my own, (Bowie used to be considered one of) the important thing artists who made me really feel like I used to be a part of a large­ger international, an artis­tic con­tin­u­um.

Imply­whilst, Alcott is generally tend­ing to anoth­er con­tin­u­um through posthu­mous­ly pair­ing such past due greats as Bowie and Queen’s Fred­die Mer­cury (“co-author” of the deep sea-themed Beneath Pres­positive cov­er, above) with this kind of adven­tur­ous, occa­sion­al­ly steamy learn­ing mate­r­i­al that have been some of the corridor­marks in their Nineteen Fifties’ boy­hoods.

Many of these things have discovered their technique to used e-book and thrift retail outlets, the place, tat­tered and worn, they professional­vide an unlimited trove for some­one like Alcott, who brows­es along with his favourite acts’ cat­a­logues deeply imprint­ed on his males­tal arduous dri­ve.

It will have to’ve been a grand day when he hap­pened around the above Nineteen Seventies sci fi cov­er. A couple of deft tweaks, and Lifestyles on Mars, a nonex­is­tent “new adven­ture from the writer of Area Unusual­i­ty,” used to be born.

(Exhausting­core lovers, remember of the document­tored pub­lish­er within the higher left cor­ner)

Heroes, which takes its inspi­ra­tion from the 1981 X‑Males com­ic Days of Long run Previous, is filled filled with such East­er eggs. Are you able to spot all of them?

What a are compatible­ting trib­ute to the Starman’s endur­ing hang at the public’s imag­i­na­tion.

Browse Todd Alcott’s Bowie-themed pulp fic­tion col­lec­tion in his Etsy store.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Lis­ten to Fred­die Mer­cury & David Bowie at the Iso­lat­ed Vocal Observe for the Queen Hit ‘Beneath Pres­positive,’ 1981

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