Wolfe covers

Daniel Petersen · 01 Jan 2011, 16:51 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com (Daniel Petersen)
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 16:51:24 +0000
Subject: (urth) Wolfe covers
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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
>>
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