I would be afraid that my kids would get nightmares from looking at this cover. The girl looks angry or possessed. Her mouth might be smiling but her eyes are scary. Hands on hips is more of a defiant posture too.
Her pet “goat” looks more like the head of a parrot, the body of a pig, and the tail of a goat. You can still see the yellow glue drying from where she glued the three animals together.
I don’t like all that wasted pink space on the left and bottom, but at least it isn’t nightmare-inducing.
It’s also half T-Rex. Look at the tiny, useless arms.
RK
9 years ago
With books like this one, I often wonder whether it’s actually intended for public consumption at all, and if the author isn’t just “publishing” the book in order to get one copy of it professionally bound for herself; that might explain the lackadaisical design and illustration as well as anything does. I can remember a book my brother wrote and illustrated as a homemade birthday gift to me back in the 1980s when we were kids (better done than this one, in my opinion, though it would have earned your “art for a refrigerator” tag on here); and I don’t think he would have minded paying ten bucks to get it professionally printed and bound like this one if that had been all it cost.
But if that were the case:
a) They wouldn’t check the CreateSpace option to distribute it on Amazon.
b) They wouldn’t have made a Kindle version as well.
Back when my kids were young, I would often draw odd pictures to illustrate the intentionally bad (but funny) stories I wrote for them. There is little doubt that if print on demand had existed I would have turned some of those into print books and made them available on Amazon (if it had existed) just so they could unwrap a birthday or Christmas present and find an Amazon box with my latest contribution to art and literature inside. There would not be a Kindle version, though (I still refuse to do e-books).
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I would be afraid that my kids would get nightmares from looking at this cover. The girl looks angry or possessed. Her mouth might be smiling but her eyes are scary. Hands on hips is more of a defiant posture too.
Her pet “goat” looks more like the head of a parrot, the body of a pig, and the tail of a goat. You can still see the yellow glue drying from where she glued the three animals together.
I don’t like all that wasted pink space on the left and bottom, but at least it isn’t nightmare-inducing.
That’s a goat? I thought it was a pug that got run over by the truck that paints yellow lines on the road.
Whatever it is, it has 6 legs and from the looks of it, the ability to summon Satan.
It’s also half T-Rex. Look at the tiny, useless arms.
With books like this one, I often wonder whether it’s actually intended for public consumption at all, and if the author isn’t just “publishing” the book in order to get one copy of it professionally bound for herself; that might explain the lackadaisical design and illustration as well as anything does. I can remember a book my brother wrote and illustrated as a homemade birthday gift to me back in the 1980s when we were kids (better done than this one, in my opinion, though it would have earned your “art for a refrigerator” tag on here); and I don’t think he would have minded paying ten bucks to get it professionally printed and bound like this one if that had been all it cost.
But if that were the case:
a) They wouldn’t check the CreateSpace option to distribute it on Amazon.
b) They wouldn’t have made a Kindle version as well.
True.
Back when my kids were young, I would often draw odd pictures to illustrate the intentionally bad (but funny) stories I wrote for them. There is little doubt that if print on demand had existed I would have turned some of those into print books and made them available on Amazon (if it had existed) just so they could unwrap a birthday or Christmas present and find an Amazon box with my latest contribution to art and literature inside. There would not be a Kindle version, though (I still refuse to do e-books).
Damn. The wrong Mathilda May.
http://cdn.chud.com/6/62/62fe9a32_mathilda-may-in-lifeforce-1985.jpeg
I can only imagine the depths of your disappointment. 😉
Maybe you should put a NSFW tag on links like that…just sayin’.
Why does the goat have six legs and uses a microphone?
That almost sounds like the opening line to a joke.
The goat was only pretending to have six legs. He is actually foot-syncing because he is Billi Vanilli.
Why are the cats peering out from between hairy bug legs?
Because they had two to spare!