The horse part of the illustration isn’t awful but the rider looks like a cowboy zombie with a pointy forehead and deformed feet. The cover’s colors are just awful in these tones and combined like this. The Australian continent looks like a load of baby poop.
Try tilting your head slightly so the horse is level. Now imagine the horse straightens its forelegs. Where exactly do they meet the body? I disagree, the horse pic is also awful. 🙂
Green and gold. Worst national colours ever. And I say that as a proud Aussie. The green and gold are the colours of the wattle tree in bloom, but it’s never translated very well to anything else. Like book covers or Olympic uniforms.
They left Tasmania off the map, ps, but that seems the least of this book’s crimes.
Axolotl
9 years ago
Well, it does look crap by today’s standards, but I don’t think it would look out of place had I seen it discoloured and scuffed up in a second-hand bookshop.
misterfweem
9 years ago
Concernin’ of a bush ranger, Rincewind was his name . . .
This looks like a cheesy kid’s hardcover book from the 1950s.
Reminds me of the PeeChee folders I used to use as a kid.
Why would you shoot your own horse in the back of the neck while you were riding it?
The horse part of the illustration isn’t awful but the rider looks like a cowboy zombie with a pointy forehead and deformed feet. The cover’s colors are just awful in these tones and combined like this. The Australian continent looks like a load of baby poop.
Try tilting your head slightly so the horse is level. Now imagine the horse straightens its forelegs. Where exactly do they meet the body? I disagree, the horse pic is also awful. 🙂
Green and gold. Worst national colours ever. And I say that as a proud Aussie. The green and gold are the colours of the wattle tree in bloom, but it’s never translated very well to anything else. Like book covers or Olympic uniforms.
They left Tasmania off the map, ps, but that seems the least of this book’s crimes.
Well, it does look crap by today’s standards, but I don’t think it would look out of place had I seen it discoloured and scuffed up in a second-hand bookshop.
Concernin’ of a bush ranger, Rincewind was his name . . .