{"id":1664,"date":"2009-09-01T08:56:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T16:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2009-09-01T08:56:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T16:56:25","slug":"cover-art-the-blade-itself-by-joe-abercrombie-uk-paperback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/news\/cover-art-the-blade-itself-by-joe-abercrombie-uk-paperback\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Art | The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie (UK Paperback)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abercrombie gave a peek<\/a> at the cover art for the upcoming (Winter 2009) paperback UK release (phew!) of The Blade Itself<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\"The<\/a>\n

Abercrombie’s thoughts:<\/p>\n

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Art is by Chris McGrath<\/strong> who does a lot of Urban Fantasy covers but less epic-style stuff, and I reckon he’s done a bang up job. Gritty, impactful, and says epic fantasy without the slightest whiff of cheesiness (which is not an easy trick to pull off). Not at all a bad representation of Master Ninefingers either. <\/strong>Never an easy thing for an author to see his\/her characters made manifest like that. Glokta (Before They are Hanged) and Jezal (Last Argument of Kings) will be following over the next few months<\/strong>, at which point there’ll probably be some tweaking to give it more of a unified series feel…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Most notably, this is the first semi-official look we’ve had at any of the characters from Abercrombie’s The First Law<\/strong> trilogy. Logen’s pretty straight forward (but looks a bit younger and less ugly than what I pictured), so what I’m really curious to see is how they portray Sand dan Glokta, the tortured, erm… torturer from the series.<\/p>\n

Chris McGrath<\/a> is probably best known for his work on the Dresden Files<\/strong> books, which I was recently raving about<\/a>. It’s just too bad about the gradient used on Abercrombie’s name.<\/p>\n

As Abercrombie says, kudos to the art team at Gollancz<\/strong> for putting together a character based cover that doesn’t suck (Orbit<\/strong> should<\/a> take note<\/a>…). In fact, it’s actually pretty great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abercrombie gave a peek at the cover art for the upcoming (Winter 2009) paperback UK release (phew!) of The Blade Itself. Abercrombie’s thoughts: Art is by Chris McGrath who does a lot of Urban Fantasy covers but less epic-style stuff, and I reckon he’s done a bang up job. Gritty, impactful, and says epic fantasy… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n