Three items related to book covers just happened to catch my eye over the past few days.
1) This "S[cience]F[iction] Cover Explorer" is really cool. Thousands of covers, arranged by chronology and hue, in a collage. Pretty...
2) There's a new book out on American Modernist book cover design. Looks kinda interesting.
3) The pulp novels of the 50s and 60s often dealt with homosexuality while the rest of society ignored it. (Mind you, it wasn't a positive portrayal, exactly, but they at least acknowledged it existed.) Here are some of the salacious pulp covers now on exhibit at the San Francisco Public Library. Those pulp publishers sure knew how to write copy! An example: "He won the gay vote by a sinslide!" How can you not love that?!? I totally want to see a "sinslide," now. (Bet Scott has participated in a few of them in his time. Pictures, please, Scott!)
(#1 Via Bookninja; #2 Via Bookslut)
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