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My personal recollections of painting this Nexus #40 cover are fairly vivid, as are most of my Nexus covers from the 80's.  Here's some memories...

 

Besides using Rutger Hauer in the black suit and weapon, and some guy we invented for the story that managed a porn shop, the two people in the back row are actually people I know. The clown standing on his head is someone I knew from 2nd grade, named Alan Dinkert. ( The name fit pretty well).  The girl in the lingerie was, *GASP!*, my neighbor in the apartmentnext to me!  For the photo shoot, she got pretty much dressed (undressed) the way you see her here, along with the two butcher knives needed as props. ( I remember wanting to see how the reflections worked off the blades.)  She was a great sport and a real sweetheart in posing for this rather risqué request.  

Can this work really be 5 times the age of Mr. Silly.  Zounds! 

 

As I recall this cover, I think of all the 2-page spreads that proliferated so many other books at this time.  Most seemed flawed in a very simple way, and I don't know his this escaped them.  What you have to do is design both front and back covers separately--and then find a way to combine them.  Otherwise you get these strangely cropped images that work only when you open them up from the back.  

 

I was using my cel-vinyl's back then, and I fondly remember painting Sundra Peale's face, and how beautiful she looked.  All the main characters were in a back-lighting situation and was a nice trial to pull that off, lighting-wise.  All-in-all, there's probably things in this painting that I couldn't even duplicate today!