Wolfe covers

David Stockhoff · 02 Jan 2011, 19:47 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:47:20 -0500
Subject: (urth) Wolfe covers
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These look like YA covers. In that light, not as bad as I expected. 
Plainly there is little attempt at any kind of realism.

But Disiri's face is kinda crooked.

On 1/1/2011 12:38 PM, Jordon Flato wrote:
>
> 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 
>> <mailto:danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie <mailto:gerryq at indigo.ie>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >
>> > 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 
>> <mailto:gerryq at indigo.ie>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On the other hand, people ...
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