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| One more case in point as to why Whelan's covers annoy me… a lot | |
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Wilbury 10:15 am UTC 05/16/11 |
| In reply to: | re: VBO Meat Loaf Cover Artwork Variance - rockfenris2005 06:56 am UTC 05/16/11 |
| Here are some pulp art examples from Rafael DeSoto, the guy that did the illustration of the Woman with guns and handcuffed man's hands around her neck, used on the inside tray (US) or back cover (UK) of Welcome To The Neighbourhood. Notice that this guy is a professional commercial artist. Able to design to a spec, not just a navel-gazing fantasy artist that pleases him or herself. As a result, the final compositions using DeSoto's work are nothing short of beautiful. Really beautifully resolved. Where exactly did Michael Whelan and Julie Bell THINK the text was intended to go? Bat 1 has tension in all the right places, and calm in all the right places. Bat2, VBO and TMiL just have shit bumping into each other and large expanses of nothingness, and no respect at all for the type. The end result is inherently flawed, and nothing on what it could and should have been. > > I believe what you are saying is correct. It's too much of > a coincidence otherwise. I do think he was making a > statement about TMIL. > > > > > > > > > It's a load of trash, if you ask me. I cringe when I see > > > it next to the other two. "Hang Cool Teddy Bear" was an > > > improvement though. I didn't mind that. > > > > > > > > Yeah, I quite like the artwork on Teddy Bear too. (I don't > > own it yet.) > > > > I also really like the way it seemingly unites the two > > Album narratives Meat has had going: > > > > The Fantasy Art / Gothic content: Bat / Dead Ringer > > / Bat 2 / TMiL > > > > The Girls!: Neighbourhood / Couldn't Have Said It > > Better. > > > > Then they both collided in Teddy Bear, which I THINK was > > actually Meat's intention, because along with the big IV > > on the back cover it sort of discredits TMiL as being > > anything overly significant. Maybe that's me reading too > > much into it, but that big IV was definitely deliberately > > put there for one reason or another. As if to say "Well > > the 'Bat 3' we just did came out pox, so now let's forget > > that and try again with part 4… | |
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