Vigorously Lazy

Designers Ben Pieratt and Eric Jacobsen have taken it upon themselves to archive some of the best book covers of recent memory over at The Book Cover Archive. While most bloggers are satisfied writing pithy reviews of book covers (ahem) BCA simply lets the cover speak for itself, as well as providing useful information as to who actually designed what. Well done fellas. Now go waste your morning at this place.

Book and/or short story trailers are, by their nature, very weird things. Trying to convey a mood or feeling of a piece that does its best conveying in a completely different medium in a short amount of time is a recipe for clumsy and awkward “filmmaking”. AV Cub just came out with a pretty good one:

But most of them are really, really, ridiculously, embarrassingly bad:

Reason I bring this up is cause we’re gonna be posting some trailers of our own up here some time next week and I want to make this solemn promise to you, dear Annalemma disciple, that we will try our damnedest to make our trailers as interesting and non-embarrassing as possible. Keep your peepers pealed.

Thanks HTMLGIANT.

We got the new issue from the printer yesterday and it looks fantastic! We still have to assemble the letterpress piece over the weekend before we start shipping. More details on that and the issue itself next week. Pre-order is available now! Go do it!

Okay, so it’s pretty much a given that Satan is keeping a Choke Pear nice and glowing-hot for when Glenn Beck gets to Hell, but not for the reasons you’re thinking. Sure, whipping Fox News audiences into a fever storm of right wing fury that further polarizes our already fragile union (and making a shit ton of cash doing it) and refusing to take responsibility for his actions when it comes back to bite him in the ass, claiming it’s all entertainment and all in good fun, may seem like a damnable offense of the first degree. But what’s really earning him a red-hot goosing is his shitty book cover design.

What the fuck? You couldn’t get a real apple pie? Don’t you have art directors and production designers that cater to your every shitty whim? Couldn’t they at least make an apple pie out of resin and fiberglass or something? You of all people should know about things that may look nice on the outside but are actually filled with toxic chemicals. Instead of spending a few hundred dollars on production design you decided to stand there with your hands empty, mugging at the camera like an idiot. Then again, this is something you’re used to.

Head on over to our print store where you’ll find Issue Five available for pre-sale.

We’re also pleased to announce that this issue will feature a limited edition letterpress piece by Danny Jones as part of his series “Dawn of Man” appearing in this issue. Only 750 of these pieces will be pressed before the plates are destroyed. So reserve yours today!

This collection of Ghanaian movie posters from popular films of the 80’s and 90’s over at Ephemera Assemblyman will blow your mind and make you wish the artist(s) could paint murals in your home. See also Polish movie posters.

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During a bit of research for BBCDW I came across this video of Nick Cave reading from his new novel, The Death of Bunny Munro. A funny and mildly disturbing vignette to bring you into the weekend. Enjoy.

p.s. The highlights come at 4:38 and 5:58.

p.p.s. Is it just me being influenced by the title or does Cave look and act like some sort of demented alternate-reality humanoid version of Bugs Bunny?

p.p.p.s. You thought the UK cover was wild. The NZ cover is out of control.