DO NOT use markers or crayons to color your cover images.
DO NOT find hinky ways to spell familiar words or names of ancient gods and goddesses. (Eisess, really?)
AVOID using “By” on your cover, and certainly NEVER, NEVER, NEVER use a colon after “By.”
DO NOT mess up aspect ratios, especially when the image contains something generally perceived as round, such as a ball, planet, or other celestial orb.
DO NOT mix photos and cheap (or any, really) art on a cover unless you have a degree in graphic design or twenty years experience designing for print professionally.
Please, DO NOT whine when we point out the ways in which your cover fails, especially if there are many, many areas of fail.
DO NOT find hinky ways to spell familiar words or names of ancient gods and goddesses.
AVOID using “By” on your cover, and certainly NEVER, NEVER, NEVER use a colon after “By.”
And do not have them tattooed on your forehead like that.
next time, it might be a good idea to find a book, preferably paper, to see how one actually looks like. Then when you grow up, if you wish to try making one again, it might look like an actual book. You might even want to read one, it might help, you know.
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And Eisess — I sez — another LBC done by a 4th Grader.
WTF is this book about anyway? FAIL!
Crayon – the new goto choice for professional artists everywhere.
Also, I hate to see my heroes fall prey to the alcohol and drug-dependency that characterizes so many sad stories.
Yet it appears that the Great Gazoo has fallen on hard times.
Very hard times indeed.
Dear authors:
DO NOT use markers or crayons to color your cover images.
DO NOT find hinky ways to spell familiar words or names of ancient gods and goddesses. (Eisess, really?)
AVOID using “By” on your cover, and certainly NEVER, NEVER, NEVER use a colon after “By.”
DO NOT mess up aspect ratios, especially when the image contains something generally perceived as round, such as a ball, planet, or other celestial orb.
DO NOT mix photos and cheap (or any, really) art on a cover unless you have a degree in graphic design or twenty years experience designing for print professionally.
Please, DO NOT whine when we point out the ways in which your cover fails, especially if there are many, many areas of fail.
I feel much better now, my LBC friends. Carry on!
DO NOT find hinky ways to spell familiar words or names of ancient gods and goddesses.
AVOID using “By” on your cover, and certainly NEVER, NEVER, NEVER use a colon after “By.”
And do not have them tattooed on your forehead like that.
Bwhahahahaha!
It is such a pity.
Pencil crayons, crayons, and markers can be so beautiful in the hands of an expert.
If you don’t know what the white pencil crayon is for, you should not be allowed to use them.
This made me laugh.
I especially love that thing she’s doing with her fingers.
I think those are shoulder pad like trim things. But imagining them as fingers made me laugh far more, so I will see it like that from now on.
Bless you Take Cover.
Are those neck-stretching rings she’s wearing?
Nah, she’s one of those rare accordion-neck aliens. She could make a fortune in the sex-film trade.
I can’t imagine what you mean by that. . .
Dear Mazie,
next time, it might be a good idea to find a book, preferably paper, to see how one actually looks like. Then when you grow up, if you wish to try making one again, it might look like an actual book. You might even want to read one, it might help, you know.
Best of luck,
Catie