Readers of this blog (yes, I mean both of you) undoubtedly know that I love book covers. I also love designing them. And I devote a fair amount of time creating covers for Black Scat Books. That’s about twenty covers, I think. I also design for other publishers. For example, I did quite a few for Paul Rosheim’s press, Obscure Publications, with my favorite being for Terry Southern’s PURITAN PORN.
A simple design that gets right to the point, so to speak.
And speaking of simplicity, my cover for Erik Belgum’s COLLECTED STORT SHORIES is truly minimalist.
My cover for the forthcoming issue of FICTION INTERNATIONAL is another personal favorite. I’ve done a bunch of FI covers over the years, and one with a Beuyscout motif turned out to be one of their biggest sellers. Of course that may have been due to that issue’s contributors. Here’s an advance peek at #46.
Took my first crack at designing uniform covers for a trilogy of novels by Yuriy Tarnawsky for JEF Books..
I just completed the design for a reissue of Harold Jaffe’s PARIS 60. The book is loosely based on Baudelaire’s PARIS SPLEEN, so it seemed appropriate to use the poet’s eye.
This is one of the very few covers I’ve done in black and white.
It has the feel of the old New Directions paperbacks I was reared on, like this edition of Rimbaud’s ILLUMINATIONS.
My aesthetic usually tends toward retro and, thus, my designs rarely go out of fashion.
