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 !!!!

[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...

[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!

[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.