(urth) Wolfe covers

[Daniel Petersen]

Finally!  So good to hear someone complain about the ATROCIOUS covers Wolfe
gets landed with.  I literally have to hide them from family and friends
when I'm reading them so they won't (justifiably) judge a book by its cover.
 They couldn't be more incongruous with the fine literary craftsmanship of
their contents.  I long for the day when they will reissue his entire output
in something with a design quality worthy of the artistic merit of the
writing.

DOJP

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 7:09 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:

> Art directors can be a timid breed. They are sensitive to backlash and
> blame, because that's what they are hired to prevent.
>
>
> On 12/30/2010 2:21 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>
>> BTW
>>
>> The cover of Home Fires is pretty boring, but at least its better than the
>> 4th grade
>> Photoshop cover from The Sorcerer's House.
>>
>> Wolfe recently said something about the covers on The Book of the New Sun.
>> He said he has always been happy with the original cover of Shadow of the
>> Torturer. No one expected the sales to be a big deal so they let him and the
>> editor do what they wanted. But with each volume the expectations for the
>> sales of the next volume increased. Consequently, with each release the Art
>> Director became more involved and exercised more control, so that with each
>> release, the quality of the artwork deteriorated. I don't know who the Art
>> Director was a Tor at the time. He shouldn't put Gene Wolfe as a reference
>> on his C.V.
>>
>> u+16b9
>>
>
>
> ---
> avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean.
> Virus Database (VPS): 101231-0, 12/31/2010
> Tested on: 12/31/2010 2:09:23 PM
> avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2010 AVAST Software.
> http://www.avast.com
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Urth Mailing List
> To post, write urth at urth.net
> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20110101/bacd3bd8/attachment-0003.htm>