On 1/20/06, Kevin Burton Smith <
kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Black Lizard? For all the tainted-by-nostalgia
hoopla, I thought the
> cover illustrations were over-rated. A disappointing
number of them
> seemed rushed to me, and featured poorly rendered,
vaguely
> simian-looking men and women and awkward or
unimaginative layouts, with
> no real sense of style. Although I realize some of
you may be quite
> fond of them. Sorry.
>
> The over-riding design of the covers, though -- the
torn edge
> black/grey hook and the bold, italic white sans
serif typography -- was
> distinctive and quite good.
Hear, hear on that. It's a tribute to Black Lizard that the
books did as well as they did with those awfully illustrated
covers...'cause I'm sure that it wasn't the covers that
motivated buyers to take chances on these if they didn't know
what they were buying.
Tribe
-- http://tribe.textdriven.com/blog Tribe's Blog
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