Once again: How can people who show no evidence of having seen a book cover before consider themselves competent to design one?
Once again: How can people who show no evidence of having seen a book cover before consider themselves competent to design one?
Freud has this to say about tall and narrow objects – “That’s what she said!”
So, this title intrigues me. Does he sell eels? Is he part eel? Is he like an eel-endowed superhero? I kinda want to know. Only trouble is, this lame, god-awful blurry cover GIVES ME NO CLUE WHATSOEVER! The typography is a travesty and worst of all, it’s thin and black on top of tall, thin dark stuff. Cripes. Who could read that? I get all squinty-eyed looking at the blurry painting(?) and I’m supposed to find the type. Is this like an anti-reader puzzle of some kind? I’ll bet the thumbnail is an eel-barrel of laughs.
Or maybe a wereeel
“Once again: How can people who show no evidence of having seen a book cover before consider themselves competent to design one?”
Because ignorance is bliss?
Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is definitely obvious.
LOL. 🙂
Because this is National Bullying Prevention Month, I’ve decided to say only nice things about LBCs.*
So:
a) If instead of “EEL MAN” the title said “EEL NATS” then you could hold it up to a mirror and read “STAN LEE” with backwards letters.
b) That white rectangle is totally non-pixelated.
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* Only one more week to go.
What a disappointment! When I saw the title, “The Eel Man of Grimsby”, I thought of the Flukeman of Chernobyl in the X-Files episode “The Host”.
Add squished aspect ratio to Papyrus font, headless torsoes and photobombing wolfies as an overused trend.
Maybe he was shooting for something like this — http://borneoinsidersguide.com/images/article_image/Almayer%27s-Folly—Joseph-Conrad.jpg And getting it wrong, obviously.
It’s missing a readability tag. Not that it matters, it has plenty of tags already. Sigh.