{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/4771", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 4771, "subject": "New BotNS cover design", "messages": 5, "voices": 4, "first": "2006-11-23T17:33:03+00:00", "last": "2006-11-24T14:55:55+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "<4565DB4F.2070608@gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Jesper Svedberg", "address": "jsvedberg at gmail.com" }, "date": "2006-11-23T17:33:03+00:00", "subject": "(urth) New BotNS cover design", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Irene Gallo, art director at Tor, just posted the new design for the \nnext reprint of _Shadow & Claw_ and _Sword & Citadell_ on her blog. \nThey'll still use the Don Maitz art, but the design and typography looks \na bit more restrained.\nSee it here:\n\nhttp://igallo.blogspot.com/2006/11/facelifts.html\n\n\n // Jesper" } ] }, { "message_id": "<0C6007BD-5502-4B44-8E44-8B985F7CF3A9@tcnj.edu>", "from": { "name": "Matthew DeLuca", "address": "deluca22 at tcnj.edu" }, "date": "2006-11-23T23:03:11+00:00", "subject": "(urth) New BotNS cover design", "in_reply_to": "<4565DB4F.2070608@gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Nov 23, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Jesper Svedberg wrote:\nIrene Gallo, art director at Tor, just posted the new design for the\nnext reprint of _Shadow & Claw_ and _Sword & Citadell_ on her blog.\nThey'll still use the Don Maitz art, but the design and typography \nlooks\na bit more restrained.\nSee it here:\n\nhttp://igallo.blogspot.com/2006/11/facelifts.html\n\n\n // Jesper\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<433403.93589.qm@web51715.mail.yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "nastler", "address": "nastler at yahoo.dk" }, "date": "2006-11-24T08:51:23+00:00", "subject": "(urth) New BotNS cover design", "in_reply_to": "<4565DB4F.2070608@gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I much prefer the Hungarian cover...\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/y5uo48\n\nnastler\n\n--- Jesper Svedberg skrev:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Irene Gallo, art director at Tor, just posted the\nnew design for the \nnext reprint of _Shadow & Claw_ and _Sword &\nCitadell_ on her blog. \nThey'll still use the Don Maitz art, but the design\nand typography looks \na bit more restrained.\nSee it here:\n\nhttp://igallo.blogspot.com/2006/11/facelifts.html\n\n\n // Jesper\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "James Machin", "address": "jfmachin at hotmail.com" }, "date": "2006-11-24T10:14:17+00:00", "subject": "(urth) New BotNS cover design", "in_reply_to": "<433403.93589.qm@web51715.mail.yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I really hope to see a decently design edition of BotNS one day - one that \ndoesn't rely on pulpy fantasy action scenes. I think the Don Maitz art is \npretty naf and the Fantasy Masterworks ed is hardly better. The Arrow eds. \ncover art was much much better IMHO, but what I think would be great would \nbe something along the lines of a good Penguin cover design - my personal \nchoice would be something more abstract, or maybe something involving the \nmoon landing painting hanging jarringly on a mediaeval wall." } ] }, { "message_id": "<456707FB.2090704@gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Jesper Svedberg", "address": "jsvedberg at gmail.com" }, "date": "2006-11-24T14:55:55+00:00", "subject": "(urth) New BotNS cover design", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "James Machin skrev:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "I really hope to see a decently design edition of BotNS one day - one \nthat doesn't rely on pulpy fantasy action scenes. I think the Don Maitz \nart is pretty naf and the Fantasy Masterworks ed is hardly better. The \nArrow eds. cover art was much much better IMHO, but what I think would \nbe great would be something along the lines of a good Penguin cover \ndesign - my personal choice would be something more abstract, or maybe \nsomething involving the moon landing painting hanging jarringly on a \nmediaeval wall." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "But BotNS is pulpy! It's just that it's really, really well written pulp.\nThe best BotNS cover is still the old British cover for The Shadow of \nthe Torturer by Bruce Pennington: \nhttp://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ajellis/images/shadow.JPG\n\nThe cover for the Swedish edition of Shadow & Claw is nice too, and \npretty classy as well.\nhttp://home.student.uu.se/jesv8435/wolfe_dnsb1.jpg\n\n(The Fantasy Masterworks covers are truly awful though.)\n\n\n // Jesper" } ] } ] }