Re: [DL] Re: PEG Cover Art

[The Baron Samedi <baron11@netmcr.com>]

At 12:01 AM 8/25/00, you wrote:
>----- Original Message ----- >
> > Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 18:55:06 +0100
> > From: roy.ster@virgin.net
> > Subject: [DL] DL] PEG Cover Art (Goff)
> >
> >
> > Knowing nothing about art, I've struggled a bit to say what I mean,
> > but I was wondering if anyone else had noticed this?
> >
> >
> > Roy
>
>Personally, I really disagree. While I grant that it doesn't have the "musty
>dusty yellow tone" of the main book or Book O' the Dead, I like the new art.
>Hexarcana's cover is certainly different, but very cool (in my opinion,
>anyway). There's a sense of foreboding in the lady's eyes and smile, and yet
>it almost draws you towards her. The shadows play to spectacular effect, and
>the slight bit you can make out on the books on the wall would make for
>*very* interesting reading to a huckster. The bony nature of her hands and
>the claw-like fingernails are a nice touch, as is her head being surrounded
>by a red drape (red always represents danger, death or blood in movies for
>obvious reasons[good movies, anyway]).


Don't forget the odd portrait.  Or the fact that the shelf resembles "The 
Keepers Companion" for CoC (which is prob a coincidence but cool to me).

That is just a cool pic.
and your analysis is top-notch.  I am saving it as a seprate file.

>Is it different from the old stuff? Yes. I think Hexarcana's art more speaks
>to people who already know something about Deadlands and its world. As for
>the Agency book, if you don't like it either, perhaps it is just Pete
>Venters' art that you don't like - he did both, I believe. Personally,
>Venters is an artist I can't get enough of. He and Paolo Parente are
>probably my two favorite artists for Deadlands. No cover of any book will
>*ever* match Fire and Brimstone, as far as I'm concerned.
>
>I'm not saying you're wrong, though. I just don't agree. I think Pinnacle's
>cover art has actually been consistently better as time has gone on (don't
>get me started on the interior art). The Marshal's Guide art probably ranks
>2nd in my "favorite cover" contest. It or the City O' Gloom (but only
>because it has Gerald Klipstein in it twice!).

what did you think of "The Great Maze"?


>Anyway, as long as it stays better than the Smith and Robards cover, I'm
>happy.

preach on


>  Sinister "Media guy" Dexter
>sinisterdexter@mindspring.com


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