Is anyone besides me struck by how much Ender on the home page here looks like OSC - or vice versa?
Posted by Zero (Member # 3619) on :
I did not notice that... but at just the right angle I can see what you mean. Though, honestly, I don't imagine Ender looking like that at all, and I think his outfit looks ridiculous. Like he's dressing up as the Master Chief for Halloween, or something.
Posted by Patrick James (Member # 7847) on :
Master chief. Good point.
Did you notice the scorpion tank(From Halo, Not much of a tank actually, its more of an SP)featured on the cover of 'Empire'(OSC).
Anyone know why OSC's cover artist has decided to rip Halo images?
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
I don't imagine Ender like that either. As a matter of fact, the technique the artist used makes Ender look older and plastic. Marvel has much better artist's (or could hire on better freelance artists, like Dale Keown) than that.
As far as the cover of Empire goes, it's not "OSC's artist", it's an artist ToR hired. Besides, That may just be similar to the scorpion tank.
Posted by Patrick James (Member # 7847) on :
No. It is definitely the Scorpion. Any differences would take a microscope to spot, because I haven't spotted them.
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
Could also be stock artwork (for the EMPIRE cover). Publishers tend to do that when they can get away with it because it's cheaper than paying an artist to come up with something specific for a book cover.
Posted by Patrick James (Member # 7847) on :
It is an ineresting cover. I have found that there are two versions, one had a different tank.
Same cover except in place of the Stock-Scorpion look-alike, there is a tank that resembles a Merkava with a dome atop its turret. Why would they change the cover. The other tank was perfectly suitable. Anybody know?
Things like that intrigue me.
Posted by debhoag (Member # 5493) on :
On the back cover of the JD Robb series, the picture of the writer (Nora Roberts) has been transmuted to look more and more like the main character of the novel of the novels over time. It seems like a bit of marketing - identify the author as the product, and I wonder if that's a trend in publishing/promotion.
Posted by annepin (Member # 5952) on :
quote:It seems like a bit of marketing - identify the author as the product, and I wonder if that's a trend in publishing/promotion
Hm... I wonder... if I wrote just about werewolves would they make me look, well, hirsute?
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Posted by debhoag (Member # 5493) on :
I just want them to airbrush my thighs
Posted by Zero (Member # 3619) on :
quote:Did you notice the scorpion tank(From Halo, Not much of a tank actually, its more of an SP)featured on the cover of 'Empire'(OSC).
Wow, you're completely 100% right. There is no doubt that's the Scorpion. So the question is, did Microsoft steal the image from another source when they made the Scorpion?
Posted by aspirit (Member # 7974) on :
Ender looks much like I imagined him. Anyway, artists need something for their inspiration. I assume when the author does not provide a description clearly different than himself, an artist will incorporate the author's image into the character's. Matter of convenience, right?
quote:Hm... I wonder... if I wrote just about werewolves would they make me look, well, hirsute?
Kitty Norville (fictional werewolf) looks like her author, Carrie Vaughn. I'm guessing Vaughn poses for the Kitty covers.
Posted by aspirit (Member # 7974) on :
I met Carrie Vaughn tonight. She insists the artist of her book covers had not seen her before drawing Kitty, and he uses a Californian actress as his model. She admitted, however, that readers don't believe she doesn't model for her own books.
Posted by Cheyne (Member # 7710) on :