UK 'adult' GoF cover

[Neil Ward]

I guess I'm behind the times here, but I saw the 'adult' paperback version
of GoF in Waterstones yesterday and I think the design is truly awful.
Horrible.  Land sakes! Noooooooooooh! Gag, gag, gag!!

As I expected, the cover follows the pattern of the previous books and
presents a black and white image that is somewhat related to the colour
cover design (e.g. - for those who don't know - the CoS cover showed a real
Ford Anglia flying through the clouds... I like to get in some modelling
work when I can).

The new GoF cover shows what looks like a black and white illustration of a
Chinese dragon with its eyes popping out of its skull.  It also looks like
it's been either (a) scanned and then photocopied 43 times when the
photocopier was having a bad day, or (b) enlarged from a photograph of a
leathery old sailor's badly-inked tattoo.

You'd think, wouldn't you, that they could chuck a few quid at a decent
designer for one of the best selling books on the planet? But, no.

Maybe it'll grow on me...

Neil
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Flying Ford Anglia

"The cat's ginger fur was thick and fluffy, but it was definitely
a bit bow-legged and its face looked grumpy and oddly
squashed, as though it had run headlong into a brick wall"
["The Leaky Cauldron", PoA]