Love the annual Lousies, but dreading Lousy Book Cover Overload in January each year? We’re switching it up! This month, we’ll have semi-finals for the first three months of the year, allowing your psyche to scar over before we periodically tear it up again. You’re welcome!
The rules: Pick your choices for the worst three covers for each month.
February:
This one was tough, too. Like the last one, some were so obvious, it’s a miracle we had to vote. (Yup, Jerry Lee lewis, I’m lookin’ at you!). But then in the 2nd tier of awfulness…man, it was hard.
The Jerry Lee Lewis one is hard for me. Is it really the worst cover, or do I just think it is, because I’ve seen some of the book behind it and know that THAT is the worst book of the year.
For me, the mere fact that old Donald there (the author) put an image of Jerry Lewis, the comedian, on the cover of a book about Jerry Lee Lewis, the musician…well, that pretty much does it for me.
I’d hate to waste votes, but that alone would probably have earned 3 votes from me, if we could multi-vote one. I mean, how do you write a biography, of some star, musical, theater, film, TV, otherwise and NOT know what s/he looks like, to the point that you put someone with a similar, but not identical, name on the cover? It’s BOGGLING.
No matter if we pick the very worst. We all lose regardless.
And we don’t even get a trophy.
The real trophy is the friends you make along the way.
That’s covered by the “We don’t even get a trophy” category.
I’ve noticed that my votes tend to go to readability, bad art, and horrible layouts.
And…I mean, you’ve pretty much covered the Gamut there, Goat.
Well, that seems to be my order of preference if the cover only meets one of the conditions.