I was trying to find everywhere on the Web the name of designer/author of the drawing from the cover of Big Black's Songs about fucking, but didn't find anything. It is even not credited on the record.

I know that the designer of the Pigpile cover is LM Owen, but did the same person made artcower for Songs...?

Does anybody know the answer? And please could you tell me his/her name?

Thnks a lot.

i don't have an answer for you, but that is a great piece of album artwork. a favourite.

i prefer it to the record even...

i like it a lot. but i really like the original cover of the Headache EP.

the guy who did it is or was called savage pencil.

yeah it definitely looks liked it was pulled from a comic book. rapeman seems like a very logical guess.

SecondEdition wrote:the guy who did it is or was called savage pencil.

yes, his real name is Edwin Pouncey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Pencil

tnx

hm, now again, i am still not 100% sure that Savage Pencil did SAF.

There is good essay about comic art on record covers:

http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/rhode/music.htm

but on this web site Savage Pencil is only credited for Headache EP, not for SAF.

SAF is on the list of covers by Unknown Artists

I think only Steve Albini could resolve this mistery

Thnx guys, you gave me a lot of quallity informations. Now it is much easier to find on google.

The last one I've found is this:

http://landolt-c.seesaa.net/category/357643-1.html

"Big Black/Songs About Fucking (1987)
The US underground noise-rock band led by Steve Albini (vocals, guitar). The last album. Noisy and heavy sound with metallic guitars and machinelike beats by Roland drum machine. Includes covers of Kraftwerk's "The Model" and Cheap Trick's "He's a Whore". The pictures on the album jacket are quoted from Japanese X-rated graphic novel "The Rapeman" (written by Keiko Aizaki, drawn by Shintaro Miyawaki)."

Steve, help

MrFood wrote:Wow! Savage Pencil did that? I've only seen his cartoons in Wire. Which are a quite ... 'out there'.

savage did only headache ep, as far as i know