tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post679285712326599827..comments2024-02-26T02:13:54.009-08:00Comments on Caustic Cover Critic: 90° DifferenceJRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-68702243732885387502009-07-28T22:26:19.660-07:002009-07-28T22:26:19.660-07:00Clearly, cover designing is a long process behind ...Clearly, cover designing is a long process behind the scenes. Thanks for the link, it really puts things in perspective.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-37170650160732247172009-07-27T21:54:24.189-07:002009-07-27T21:54:24.189-07:00Thank you for that link. Synchronicity! A good blo...Thank you for that link. Synchronicity! A good blog for book covers that never made it is http://shelvedbooks.blogspot.com/JRSMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-39197071009418214232009-07-27T20:39:06.114-07:002009-07-27T20:39:06.114-07:00my friend commented about this ed. on an entry of ...my friend commented about this ed. on an entry of mine, after which we both found yours simultaneously. such a coincidence deserves a comment! <br /><br />I wonder how many other cover designs were scrapped like this.<br /><br />splashofcover.blogspot.com if you'd like to see the entry in question :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-1422166499085554272009-05-12T17:10:00.000-07:002009-05-12T17:10:00.000-07:00It is very clever--I just don't think you could ge...It is very clever--I just don't think you could get away with it in America. In the late 1990s my dad wrote a book about X-rays for children. The original Australian edition had a sketch of a boy having his chest X-rayed. For the US edition, his exposed nipples were deemed unacceptable, and a singlet had to be drawn over the top. Very odd.JRSMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-17136491487271813892009-05-12T16:46:00.000-07:002009-05-12T16:46:00.000-07:00I have a copy of the first one- Is it terrible tha...I have a copy of the first one- Is it terrible that I don't think the alternative cover is wrong. Perhaps a release of it in another country.Dastardly Depictions by Catherine Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11422065805952159612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-42859578154718515752009-05-07T16:07:00.000-07:002009-05-07T16:07:00.000-07:00Ian: That's a great cover (though I was alarmed at...Ian: That's a great cover (though I was alarmed at first when I misread the web address as www.incestua.com, which would have been sort of appropriate, if horrible). Do you know which publisher that is?<br /><br />JLW: Thanks for that link--it looks like a very interesting article. And almost EVERY publisher has gone against Nabokov's wishes, haven't they?JRSMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-73169651848110250762009-05-07T06:31:00.000-07:002009-05-07T06:31:00.000-07:00nice post – did you ever see Christopher Wilson’s ...nice post – did you ever see Christopher Wilson’s article, ‘The look of Lolita’ in <I>Eye</I> 43 (still in print)?<br /><br />you can read an <A HREF="http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=62&fid=266" REL="nofollow">extract</A> here<br /><br />JLWJLWhttp://blog.eyemagazine.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-3280023682711626622009-05-07T01:45:00.000-07:002009-05-07T01:45:00.000-07:00love this Lolita cover: http://www.inescuesta.com/...love this Lolita cover: http://www.inescuesta.com/graphic_lolita.htmlIan Koviakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06779092543413941740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-21318510781428600642009-05-06T22:08:00.000-07:002009-05-06T22:08:00.000-07:00Wow. That second Lolita cover almost made me spit ...Wow. That second <I>Lolita</I> cover almost made me spit coffee all over my computer. I keep trying to imagine being in the meeting when the designer springs that one . . . gasps, awkward silence, awed laughter. I can see why they couldn't bring themselves to go with it.Levi Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-24784799658735685252009-05-05T17:19:00.000-07:002009-05-05T17:19:00.000-07:00You can see why they got cold feet.
JonathanM: I u...You can see why they got cold feet.<br />JonathanM: I used to have an omnibus of Nabokovs that did the same thing--they'd removed all of the introductions to save space, and killed John Ray Jnr in the process.JRSMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-47881367940964414002009-05-05T09:50:00.000-07:002009-05-05T09:50:00.000-07:00Oooh that hurts. I assume the sideways lips were m...Oooh that hurts. I assume the sideways lips were meant to suggest a vagina. Yeah, that would be just wrong. I remember that article with Gall from a while back too.Ian Koviakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06779092543413941740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-42676769271404626992009-05-05T07:30:00.000-07:002009-05-05T07:30:00.000-07:00There was also an Everyman hardback edition that w...There was also an Everyman hardback edition that was so excited by its introduction by Martin Amis that it took out the (fictional) introduction by John Ray jnr PHd - ie the first chapter.JonathanMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14282373784021642208noreply@blogger.com