Look at these, for example. The first is Razorlight's cover for The Great Gatsby, while the second is Ryan Adams' cover for Dracula.

Razorlight's singer says: "I was running a book on the grand national in Tokyo and I was writing out a betting slip for everyone, and decided that my bookie's name was going to be Gatsby. The cover of this book is a betting slip." Oh, good. So you didn't just throw together a piece of crap in 30 seconds, then. And Adams has produced a something that looks as though it was made by a 3-year-old out of poo.
As an example of how this might be done right, see Beck's contribution.

For another good example of My Penguin cover art, see the great Eddie Campbell's take on Aurelius' Meditations and Austen's Emma.
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When a book has a cover as great as the one that Gatsby has had from the very beginning, you'd better kick ass. That cover by Razorlight does something to ass that ends with the letters "ck," but it's not "kick."
As for the Dracula cover by Ryan Adams, I'd like to comment on it but it seems that someone has smeared diarrhea all over it.
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