I was the fucking author of THE DRUID KING looking for my own book, and I walked past it 3 times! That's not a cover with negative pop? And Chip Kidd's cover had nothing at all to do with anything the novel was about. And I've seen others of his like it. And while I have no dog in that fight, art directors relying on Photoshop like Kidd sure are making life hard for cover artists.
On Norman Spinrad Trashes Knopf, Sonny Mehta, Chip Kidd and American Publishing
I was the fucking author of THE DRUID KING looking for my own book, and I walked past it 3 times! That's not a cover with negative pop? And Chip Kidd's cover had nothing at all to do with anything the novel was about. And I've seen others of his like it. And while I have no dog in that fight, art directors relying on Photoshop like Kidd sure are making life hard for cover artists.