Create A Cover Artwork For A Comedy Novel With Silly Vikings

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I am a writer, and my target audience is basically everyone with the ability to read.

It's comedy. It's set in a fictional world full of vikings. A bunch of them are forced to live in exile. After three years they dare to return from exile, just to realize that the whole world has changed. It's now ruled by a tyrant. Those few vikings, being rather odd outcasts than great warriors, are trying to save the world. A funny story about some underdogs trying to do the impossible.
I am the author. I am going to publish it by myself.

It's most likely going to be a standard b-format paperback. Yet I'm kind of quite flexible concerning that regard. Could be something between 100mm x 150mm and up to 150mm x 200mm.

Definitely my name since I am the author (Alexander Meven) and the title (Männer mit Hörnern). I can give you some ideas what could be included in the artwork: woods, vikings (yes, each helmet has two horns), a wolf gnawing on a helmet with horns, a devastated huge dining room (the morning after a bunch of those savages had a feast there), a pre-medieval tank with wooden wheels and an exhaustion pipe.

1. Fun, 2. Classy, 3. Old-school

I don't want the artwork to look like one of those corny fantasy novels. If it looks like Game of Thrones had a lovechild with one of those Twilight-movies then that thing goes right out the window. I'm thinking more like old Heavy-Metal-albums (Andreas Marschall, Dan Seagrave, Michael Whelan...) than modern fantasy-art.

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