“The planet was overcrowded — until people started vanishing into thin air!”

Pyramid Publications, NYC, second printing, October 1970. The Dreaming Earth was first published in 1963. In 1969, John Brunner (1934–1995) was awarded the Hugo Award for Stand on Zanzibar, a novel with a similar topic involving an overpopulated world.

Brunner is credited with coining the term “worm” and predicting the emergence of computer viruses in his 1975 novel The Shockwave Rider, in which he used the term to describe software which reproduces itself across a computer network. — Wikipedia

The cover art is by Gail Burwen (1945–2017).

Her outstanding talent led to her to become art director for the National Lampoon. In conjunction with her fellow artists at Cloud Studio in New York, she published Drool Magazine and Cloud Comix with a fresh, satirical outlook of current events.

Burwen’s illustration is combined with Mierop Ginger Snap C for the typography.

Roze Aktiefront is a fictional protest group that aims to ban heterosexual intercourse to prevent epidemic overpopulation. They believe that the overpopulation crisis can be solved by stopping the problem at its core; heterosexual intercourse.

The problem of overpopulation is visualised by using all of the space available. The logo is adjustable to cover the complete surface.

By Kevin Brenkman