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. 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."

The Dean brothers had left the company by 1981, but it continued under the management of Hubert Schaafsma, producing a series of fantasy art

Fantasy art

Fantasy art is a genre of art that depicts magical or other supernatural themes, ideas, creatures or settings. While there is some overlap with science fiction, horror and other speculative fiction art, there are unique elements not generally found in other forms of speculative fiction art...

 books, many of which were edited by Nigel Suckling, who also provided text to accompany the pictures. Artists published include Chris Achilleos

Chris Achilleos

Chris Achilleos is a painter and illustrator who specialises in fantasy artwork and glamour illustration. Born in Famagusta, Cyprus, his family emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1959, where he currently resides....

, Bruce Pennington

Bruce Pennington

Bruce Pennington is a British painter, perhaps best known for his science fiction and fantasy novel cover art. Pennington's works have largely featured on the covers of novels of the likes of Isaac Asimov, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert A. Heinlein, adopting both science fiction and fantastical...

, Josh Kirby

Josh Kirby

Ronald William "Josh" Kirby was an English commercial artist born in Waterloo, on the outskirts of Liverpool, Merseyside. He was educated at the Liverpool City School of Art, where he acquired the nickname Josh, which comes from having his work compared to that of Sir Joshua Reynolds...

, Rodney Matthews

Rodney Matthews

Rodney Matthews is a fantasy artist and illustrator.In 1978, he published Yendor: The Journey of a Junior Adventurer, a hard-back picture book featuring his distinctive paintings of "The Wild Country", a fantasy world seen through the eyes of young Yendor, named after his son...

, Patrick Woodroffe

Patrick Woodroffe

Patrick James Woodroffe is an English artist, etcher and drawer, who specialises in fantasy science-fiction artwork, with images that border on the surreal...

, J K Potter, Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror artist. Eggleton has been honored with the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist eight times, first winning in 1994. He also won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2001 for his art book "Greetings From Earth"...

, as well as numerous titles by Boris Vallejo

Boris Vallejo

Boris Vallejo is a Peruvian-born American painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1964, and he currently resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He frequently works with Julie Bell, his wife, painter, and model....

 and Julie Bell

Julie Bell

Julie Bell is an American painter. A fantasy artist and wildlife artist, she is a former bodybuilder and fantasy model for her husband, painter Boris Vallejo.-Career:...

. 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" by Collins & Brown, before becoming an imprint of Anova Books

Anova Books

Anova Books is a UK-based publishing company founded in 2005, with the acquisition of the Chrysalis Books Group from the Chrysalis Group. Since its inception, the firm has acquired or created several other imprints...

. As of late 2009, the imprint appears to be defunct.

At one point, Paper Tiger issued a magazine called The Paper Snarl, which featured interviews with its artists.