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Click for full imageMisterBob Comments: What if William Morris painted Fantasy covers?
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MisterBob Comments: What if William Morris painted Fantasy covers?
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December 5th, 2012 at 8:54 am
“Darling… let me barter with the magical woodland imp over the price of wallpaper!” Said the Labrador werewolf.
December 5th, 2012 at 10:16 am
The walls have ears. And eyes. And teeth and goatees and collars. And a faint garlicky smell which we all hope isn’t arsenic.
December 5th, 2012 at 10:27 am
“I thought you said your dog didn’t bite!”
“That’s not my dog.”
December 5th, 2012 at 10:52 am
Ah, a young Annie Lennox!
December 5th, 2012 at 11:54 am
William Morris DID do Fantasy covers, most of them better than this (e.g. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432142.William_Morris http://www.unimelb.edu.au/culturalcollections/research/libraryjournal/vol2no2/wills.pdf ) Deep down, he was hoping this wallpaper thing would blow over and he could get back to his real love, pretending to be Virgil Finlay.
December 5th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
If they are in the streets is that hand coming out of a manhole?
December 5th, 2012 at 2:52 pm
‘Does this bug you? I’m not touching you.’
December 5th, 2012 at 5:20 pm
When Wallpapers Attack!
December 5th, 2012 at 7:02 pm
This is driving me mad. First, it’s supposed to be an unearthly war. Fine. BUT, it’s brewing in the streets. What sort of streets? Unearthly streets? Streets in Arkham? Streets on Saturn? And it’s the war for the oaks. The oaks in the streets? Does this take place on boulevards, or what? Are the oaks earthly, but the streets aren’t? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND, and the art isn’t helping a whit.
December 5th, 2012 at 11:41 pm
So..does this qualify for one of DC’s “Teal and Orange” flags?
Because now he’s making me notice when those colors appear!
December 6th, 2012 at 2:47 am
By odd concidence ACE books is the featured article on Wikipedia today. The sample cover they display ia a Good Show Sir worthy example of “The Eternal Savage” by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Sadly the article makes no mention of ACE books frequent starring role on this site. Shame on you Wikipedia! Do your research!
December 6th, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Ok, let me have a look at your dog…..Rover, can you say “ahhhh” for me?
December 6th, 2012 at 8:25 pm
@ Stevie T: “teal and orange contrast” is something that’s supposed to feature in a lot of modern films. I haven’t noticed any myself (yet) but after I first heard about it GSS had three or four covers in a row with the effect, and now I keep on seeing it.
December 6th, 2012 at 11:32 pm
@David Cowie: Actually, I can think of one film that features it an abundance: “The Fifth Element”. But nothing else is coming to mind.
I never noticed how often it cropped up here until you started pointing them out. Maybe it should have it’s own tag? It’s almost seems cliche for a bad cover: “What else can we do to attract readers? I know, let’s put two wildly contrasting colors on the front, that’ll get us noticed!”
December 7th, 2012 at 1:14 am
@David & Stevie. You may not notice the teal-and-orange scheme in modern films because a.) : it’s *generally* more subtle than what you’re probably imagining and b.) it’s so common that you’ve quite likely come to accept it as “how movies look these days”. Usually manifests as orange-toned skin + teal-toned background.
December 7th, 2012 at 10:50 am
Some examples of teal-and-orange in the movies.
December 10th, 2012 at 10:39 pm
@Jaouad: thanks for the link! Unfortunately, now I’ll probably notice whenever it crops up. Then my “willing suspension of disbelief” goes right out the window. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss.
April 13th, 2014 at 1:29 am
You wouldn’t hardly guess this book was an urban fantasy, now, would you? I blame the art department for this travesty.