Wolfe covers

Stuart Hamm · 02 Jan 2011, 18:30 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: hammstu at sbcglobal.net (Stuart Hamm)
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:30:08 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Wolfe covers
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I don't know..Dsiri looks pretty hot, but I've always had a thing for her....disturbing to say the least!

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--- On Sat, 1/1/11, Jordon Flato <jordonflatourth at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Jordon Flato <jordonflatourth at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Wolfe covers
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Saturday, January 1, 2011, 9:38 AM

Oh my god i'm going to their up.? Those are awful...
On Jan 1, 2011 9:30 AM, "Daniel Petersen" <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:

Gerry Quinn?<gerryq at indigo.ie>?wrote:

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> On the other hand, people have objected to the Short Sun covers - but are they not, essentially...Em, not so sure about that. ?Is Seawrack's hair colour wrong? ?Horn's hair doesn't look balding at all. ?Babbie and the Neighbour would require much speculation on the part of the artist and these are not particularly impressive. ?And the godling looks more giant than I remember him being described when he's holding Silk-Horn.

But that aside, even if they depict accurate content from the stories, they are terrible 'unicorns and rainbows' fantasy drawing styles, not particularly skillful or tasteful or interesting. ?They're some of the worst and most embarrassing fantasy kitsch I've ever seen. ?(RttW is not as painful as the others - OBW is the worst.) ??Is it even a good idea to try to depict some of the most pulp-fantastic elements of Wolfe's stories on his covers? ?That can be so susceptible to misapprehending the literary excellence and subtlety of the writing that simultaneously celebrates, subverts, and transfigures the subgenre(s) Wolfe is drawing from (alongside his 'mainstream' influences). ?Why not try something more subtle or quite clearly 'beautiful'? ?If it has to be straightforward representational figurative paintings of events in the stories, then AT LEAST GET AN ARTIST WHO HAS A CLUE ABOUT GOOD REALISTIC PAINTING.

These paperback covers for The Knight: ?http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/gene+wolfe/the+knight+28ebook29/6515022/

and The Wizard: ?http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/gene+wolfe/the+wizard/5596395/

are just the worst! ?Looks like they would be the Twilight of heroic fantasy! ?Yech!
DOJP
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie> wrote:

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