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Post by Dante on Nov 20, 2015 3:52:03 GMT -5
--- Edit: It's out; see this post for details. --- I've known for a while that we'd have this new edition of TBB coming along - specific release date, February 25th, 2016 - and now we have cover art for it. Behold:  Going for more of a bold, "modern" look, rather than a detailed painterly cover as in the past. The red background, quite aside from being eye-catching (if not searing), perhaps harks back to the red spine of Egmont's original edition of TBB, from which also is borrowed the circular portrait of the Baudelaires - back then, they nabbed Helquist for such motifs up to the eleventh book, after which they had to recycle them. The visual effect of the all-consuming red background is from the same design school, maybe the same designer, as Egmont's edition of the Michael Grant novel Messenger of Fear:  ...And even more like this French edition of TBB. Very like. Egmont's cover designers have been getting a little, shall we say, derivative lately:  Discuss. |
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Nov 20, 2015 11:44:27 GMT -5
Oh, I must be a bit out of the loop, I had no idea this was happening!
I actually like this cover. It doesn't invite new readers to assume too much about the contents. Do we know anything about the inside materials, like which illustrations will be used? And are we getting the rest of the series?
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Post by gliquey on Nov 20, 2015 11:52:38 GMT -5
There's nothing particularly ground-breaking in the cover, but I quite like it. I'm not too sure about the font for "Lemony Snicket" or "A Series of Unfortunate Events" (which I think I recognise from the movie). But the circular picture, twisting spikes, red background and (of course) the iconic "The Bad Beginning" written in Pablo Let work very well.
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Post by Dante on Nov 20, 2015 12:23:58 GMT -5
Do we know anything about the inside materials, like which illustrations will be used? And are we getting the rest of the series? We don't know anything about the contents, but I myself would expect a reproduction of the standard text and illustrations used by most editions of TBB; for all their faults, Egmont rarely meddles with the interiors. I'll nab a copy as soon as it's out and reveal all. As for whether we're getting the rest of the series, I doubt it; Egmont's releasing a bunch of books by various different children's authors as part of its Egmont Modern Classics range, and a full thirteen from Lemony Snicket would rather crowd the rest out. |
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Post by bear on Nov 20, 2015 14:49:01 GMT -5
didn't the UK asoue books have different illustrations? why would they use Helquist on the front cover and a different set inside?
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Post by Emerald Snicket on Nov 20, 2015 15:18:22 GMT -5
bearI am in the UK and have the UK editions. They say 'illustrated by Brett Helquist' and also I've seen the American illustrations online and they are in the books, although they have different cover illustrations.
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Post by bear on Nov 20, 2015 15:21:35 GMT -5
so... they just had a Helquist imitator for the covers?
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Post by Dante on Nov 20, 2015 15:29:54 GMT -5
Wrong. The U.K. editions had different covers - still by Helquist. ...Until TPP, at which point they just used the American ones, probably owing to the pressures of simultaneous publication on Helquist's workload.
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Post by Emerald Snicket on Nov 20, 2015 15:32:26 GMT -5
Cover illustration © Brett Helquist 1999
I checked TBB's copyright page, so I'm fairly certain that they just had Helquist redraw the covers.
Edit: Sorry, Dante posted whilst I was checking my book. I didn't see that there was already a reply.
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Nov 20, 2015 15:52:12 GMT -5
As for whether we're getting the rest of the series, I doubt it; Egmont's releasing a bunch of books by various different children's authors as part of its Egmont Modern Classics range, and a full thirteen from Lemony Snicket would rather crowd the rest out. I wonder whether they'll then include the letter to the editor at the back, since that doesn't make much sense if you only have the book as part of such a collection. I think it will, though, partially because it's always best not to mess with the contents, and partially because it makes sense from a marketing standpoint to leave the reader curious for the next book in the series, even if that hasn't been released recently. |
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Post by bear on Nov 20, 2015 16:18:55 GMT -5
Wrong. The U.K. editions had different covers - still by Helquist. ...Until TPP, at which point they just used the American ones, probably owing to the pressures of simultaneous publication on Helquist's workload. wow, that's bizarre. those have got to be the ugliest illustrations i've ever seen Helquist do, then. |
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Post by B. on Nov 20, 2015 16:19:37 GMT -5
Oh, I must be a bit out of the loop, I had no idea this was happening! You aren't out of the loop at all, that's exactly what Dante wants you to think. As for the cover, I like that the new design resonates with the classic covers, although I wish there was more going on on them, but I think asoue is well established enough not to need to rely on that. Will hopefully gear up new interest for the tv series and encourage wider readership of atwq. I would really love if there was a new edition bought out for the tv show, with a cinematic-ly picturesque image from it being the front cover. |
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Post by bear on Nov 20, 2015 16:27:23 GMT -5
eww, for real? i hate it when they do those movie/show tie-in editions. my first box set of asoue is from 2004, so it has Jim Carrey on the front instead of the Helquist illustrations like every other box set, and i'm still angry about it.
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Post by gliquey on Nov 20, 2015 17:55:18 GMT -5
I'll nab a copy as soon as it's out and reveal all. Planning on getting thirteen different copies of TBB, Dante? Or have you surpassed that already? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2015 20:21:14 GMT -5
eww, for real? i hate it when they do those movie/show tie-in editions. my first box set of asoue is from 2004, so it has Jim Carrey on the front instead of the Helquist illustrations like every other box set, and i'm still angry about it. I got the first 3 books in a movie tie-in bundle thing from the second hand book shop and Jim Carrey isn't on it. |
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