[Hobbit]

I always find Orbit's yearly summary of cover imagery amusing, if a little scary. How quickly we are reduced to icons!

Thought others might be interested:

http://www.orbitbooks.net/2010/08/16/the-chart-of-fantasy-art-part-one/

Guess what? More hooded figures, less glowy magic and swords....

Do you agree?

[Note: Later edit, for clarification. It's not meant to be taken too seriously, and it is only based on US releases, I understand.]

Mark

[Alchemist]

LOL. My favorite is "Dark Cover of Meaninglessness."

[kirk]

No love for unicorns. =(

[Alchemist]

My five-year old daughter has tremendous love for unicorns.

[PeterWilliam]

Yeah, I saw this chart over at A Dribble of Ink. I thought it was somewhat funny before, but the newly added categories for '09 (was it?) made it even better.

[KatG]

No, I don't find it funny at all, because it's coming from a major SFF publisher, mainly. And because of the very serious issues concerning covers and publishers that are going on, and because I spent months dealing with people complaining about covers with barbarians and naked damsels in distress that don't actually exist, that they admitted didn't actually exist, but still complained about anyway. This is a really, really tired joke, from the people who shouldn't be making it, and I'm sorry the poor intern was put to work doing it.

[Sparrow]

That's pretty good stuff... but nothing on vampires?.. or are vamps strictly horror?


Personally, I like the clean graphic (2D) look for covers. That or a nice epic panorama of the landscape.

[Hobbit]

Think vamps would probably be Horror: although you never know...

What do you mean by the 2D graphic covers, Sparrow? Give us an example!

I'm thinking you mean this:

http://www.themoderndaypirates.com/pirates/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/the-strain-uk.jpg or this:

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/6860/Superboy-2.jpg

rather than this:

http://blog.newsarama.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10087/superboyfirstcostume.jpg

but I'm not sure...

(And yes, they're all SF/Horror covers. See what I mean about not knowing? :D )
Mark

[Alchemist]

No, I don't find it funny at all, because it's coming from a major SFF publisher, mainly. And because of the very serious issues concerning covers and publishers that are going on, and because I spent months dealing with people complaining about covers with barbarians and naked damsels in distress that don't actually exist, that they admitted didn't actually exist, but still complained about anyway. This is a really, really tired joke, from the people who shouldn't be making it, and I'm sorry the poor intern was put to work doing it.

What do you mean by this, in particular the bold-faced part?

[heretics fork]

What do you mean by this, in particular the bold-faced part?

Yeah, I'm confused as well, it's as though I missed part of this conversation.