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Post by Christmas Chief on Feb 20, 2021 14:15:07 GMT -5
Great find, JL! I like the artwork, colors, and font. The placement of "breakfast" is a little weird (unless it's supposed to be a pun on "break"? The crack in the egg, maybe?). Absolutely no idea what this book is going to be. Looking forward to it, though.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Feb 20, 2021 15:44:37 GMT -5
Let me make the theory about what I deduced from the cover: The dead plant shows that the poison is real. It is also a symbol of death itself.The title involving poison since breakfast is an indication that from an early age we are already destined for death.
The remains on the plate indicate that Lemony actually ate the poison, and there will be no Twist plot that the poison was not actually eaten or that the poison was not real.
Again the egg is a symbol of birth.
The life cycle is represented here: being born, eating and dying.
The play on words, which Daniel Handler loves so much because he was originally a poet, is in the emphasis on "Fast". This means that life is fast.
In fact, there is another even darker wordplay. What is the poison for? It serves to make you break quickly, or break fast.
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Post by R. on Feb 20, 2021 16:13:16 GMT -5
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Post by Dante on Feb 20, 2021 16:14:51 GMT -5
I'm disinclined to take the cover so literally at first glance, much less the formatting of the title (though that is the original etymology of "breakfast", to break one's fast); still, I do look at those long shadows differently now.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Feb 20, 2021 17:54:59 GMT -5
The life cycle is represented here: being born, eating and dying. A bleak life cycle indeed. Very Snicketian. |
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Post by bear on Feb 20, 2021 21:38:05 GMT -5
i wonder if lisa brown did the cover art...
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Post by FileneNGottlin on Feb 20, 2021 22:07:21 GMT -5
There's a film noir from the late 40s called D.O.A. The plot is very similar: man figures out he's been poisoned, man tries to figure out by whom, etc. Give that ATWQ is a film noir homage, is it possible that Poison for Breakfast is an homage too? Would that make it more likely to be shortly after ATWQ?
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Post by Skelly Craig on Feb 20, 2021 23:05:12 GMT -5
i wonder if lisa brown did the cover art... It doesn't look like her style at all to me, but it does look closer to Maira Kalman (whom DH, incl. as Snicket, has worked with a few times).
I'm not quite on board with Jean's wordplay theory, but his analysis of the artwork mirrors my own thoughts. |
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Post by bear on Feb 20, 2021 23:45:42 GMT -5
the flat, cut-out type shapes remind me of The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming. but the lettering does remind me of Maira Kalman.
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Post by Dante on Feb 21, 2021 4:20:07 GMT -5
I think it's more than likely that the cover artist is one of Norton/Liveright's staff artists, nobody we'll have heard of.
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