The Look of Love

[reviews_and_ramblings]

What happened between this


Cover Art by Gerald Gregg

and this:


Cover Art by Robert McGinnis

My post Look of Love (inspired by the wonderful book of Jennifer McKnight-Trontz) shows you how romance covers are changed the from the '20 to the end of the twenty century. Wonderful covers (and many of them so you are warned the post is heavy!) by the biggest names of Graphic Design like Geralg Gregg, Barye Phillips, Bob Stanley, Robert Maguire, Lou Marchetti, Robert McGinnis and many others. Enjoy!

http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/17201638/

Comments

[muroku.livejournal.com]

Regarding the cover for "Tender is the Storm"
I must say the hero has an interesting way of keeping himself covered up---nothing like draping the heroine over his privates. LOL !!!!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Someone says that this is a new way to do a bj... It's one of my fav covers, I would like to be a fly when this cover was on the bookstores to see the reaction! Elisa

[muroku.livejournal.com]

Someone says that this is a new way to do a bj

Ohhhh! I never thought of that ! (^_^)

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I think it was a proposition by Jules Jones

[muroku.livejournal.com]

Then maybe we can't call it a "bj" anymore---we must call it a boobjob XD

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

A boobjob? LOL, you invented a new term! Elisa

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Good Lord.

The coy grass covering the edge of his buttocks!!!!

The way that he appears to be giving himself a cleavage frottage with a corpse...

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

It was a genial cover, isn't it? I have the original book, without the red point in later time the publisher put on the bum...

BTW it was a cover by Robert McGinnis, who is one of the most talented cover artist and graphic designer of his time.

Elisa

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I've determined four things from looking at the Lindsey cover.

1) She's clearly dead, as she's limp and being held up by him, and she has a broken neck.

2) "She" has an Adam's apple, so obviously she's one of those eighteenth-century pre-op trannies. There were so many. (According to romance covers, anyway.)

3) He's a necrophiliac, because he's fucking "her" breasts.

4) Despite being dead and on a desert island, "she" has still managed to get hold of Maybelline green eye shadow. That's what you call commitment to looking fabulous!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

You are killing one of the most sought cover of every time! But you make me laugh!

I think that Robert McGinnis reached his apex with this cover, he was free to do what he wanted. I always find quite interesting that she is all dressed and with make up and he is totally naked...

Elisa

[jgraeme2007.livejournal.com]

I love, love, love cover art! Especially the old pulpy stuff. It's so interesting examining how the fashions change as the theory of what will sell a book changes.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I can buy a book only for its cover. And more the book is old, more I squeeze if I find a beautiful cover. I like the graphic, modern covers made by photo stock are not the same.

Elisa

[jgraeme2007.livejournal.com]

I can buy a book only for its cover. And more the book is old, more I squeeze if I find a beautiful cover. I like the graphic, modern covers made by photo stock are not the same.

I agree! I buy lots of old books just for their covers. And when one of my own books gets a beautiful cover, nothing makes me happier. *g*

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

C'è una cover artist che vive circondati dai quadri delle sue copertine. Non so se invidiarla o pensare che sia pazza. Guarda qui:

http://www.romancebookcoverart.com/letter2.htm

Elisa

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

What happened? He went skinnydipping and she won't tell him where she hid his trousers...

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Good ipothesis! And she offers to be his trousers? Elisa

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Or to cover his shortcomings...

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Ops... I was so immersed in what I was doing that I answered in Italian... I need to sleep...

I said: There is a cover artist that lives surrounded by paintings of her covers. I don't know if envy her or think that she is mad. Look here:

http://www.romancebookcoverart.com/letter2.htm

[jgraeme2007.livejournal.com]

I said: There is a cover artist that lives surrounded by paintings of her covers. I don't know if envy her or think that she is mad. Look here:

http://www.romancebookcoverart.com/lett er2.htm

So THAT'S what you said. *g* I checked out the link. BEAUTIFUL pictures. I don't think she's mad. I think her artwork is amazing.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

She was one of the most talented cover artist of the '70 and '80. I still miss her works. Elisa

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love Tender is the Storm's cover. Probably if I need to choose a representative cover for the romance genre, it will be this. Robert McGinnis was a detail genius. Elisa