Battlestar Galactica: Adventure Activiy Book by Grosset and DunlapI stumbled on this book over the holidays and that's good because i didn't know it even existed prior to that.
The artwork is credited to Tony Tallarico, a busy guy in comics and coloring books in the 60s and 70s (most famously for drawing those Dell "monsters as superheroes" comics which I am a fan of) who is quite capable of good work.
I'm really not sure what happened here but I have several theories.
Grab your crayons and still suit and join me after the jump
Theory #1 Nobody had any reference material.
The book is a rather uninspired collection of the usual activities mingled with some hard to see photographs that look like the worst photocopies ever. I wasn't surprised to find that whomever owned this as a kid, never once graced it with a crayon.
The book is a rather uninspired collection of the usual activities mingled with some hard to see photographs that look like the worst photocopies ever. I wasn't surprised to find that whomever owned this as a kid, never once graced it with a crayon.
Theory #2: Tallorico didn't like drawing spaceships. The Galactica appears twice in the book, the vipers maybe three times.
The majority of this book is a generic "Member of the crew" wrestling an off model Cylon on some easy to draw barren world.
And for the centerfold, more Cylon fighting some guy!
Oh wait, here's an Ovion, I think? I'm beginning to wonder if somebody just described the movie poster to the artist.
Theory #3: He was given a couple of hours to do this. Even by colouring book standards, this is a real phoned in affair. The lack of care is obvious and suggests a rush job, it's just pages of Greco-Cylon wrestling, which I'm sure is somebody's fetish...
This is 100% pure awesome. Well, awesome in its badness.
ReplyDeleteColor this MEMEMBER of the crew.
ReplyDeleteWow- a hand lettered typo. Groovy.
all you need is a little know how in that Captain Kirk space judo and you're ready to take on a Cylon in hand to hand combat.
ReplyDeleteThe Cylon in the background in that second to last pic looks like a discarded toy.
ReplyDeleteThat memember has some pretty bad camel toe
ReplyDeletePunching a Cylon in the head. Yeah, smart. They should give those memembers weapons or something.
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