Paper Tiger is a publishing house started in 1976 by Martyn and Roger Dean, on the back of their success at publishing Dean's Views graphic album under sister imprint Dragon's Dream[1]. Initially formed to publish The Album Cover Album, Paper Tiger's range expanded to include "not only art which was connected to music, but also the visionary, the fantastic, science fiction and radical design."[1]
The Dean brothers had left the company by 1981, but it continued under the management of Hubert Schaafsma[2], producing a series of fantasy art books, many of which were edited by Nigel Suckling, who also provided text to accompany the pictures. Artists published include Chris Achilleos, Bruce Pennington, Josh Kirby, Rodney Matthews, Patrick Woodroffe, J K Potter, Bob Eggleton, as well as numerous titles by Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell. Paper Tiger also published "The Round Art: The Astrology of Time and Space" by the astrologer and artist A.T. Mann, who also created the 1979 Phenomenon Calendar with Giuseppe Sesti, Painton Cowen, and Mary Flanagan.
In 1997, Paper Tiger was "rescued"[2] by Collins & Brown, before becoming an imprint of Anova Books. As of late 2009, the imprint appears to be defunct.
At one point, Paper Tiger issued a magazine called The Paper Snarl[3], which featured interviews with its artists.