Magazine Cover Artwork

Good grief. If people are complaining about those covers, then they should run away and join a convent. Some of my own artwork features women with a lot less on and I've got nothing but good comments on it.

It would seem that some of your readers just haven't decided that the Puritan society has been dead now for a couple of hundred years.

There's certainly nothing offensive in those two covers posted above. They're sexy, yes, but not derogatory towards women, for pete's sake. You'd get even worse complaints if you used pictures of nuns in full habits. I'd stop dwelling on the handful of readers that are complaining and just keep publishing your magazine and doing everything you can to make sure you have the best content available to you.

Good magazines sell no matter what the cover image is - take Newsweek, for instance...they sell millions of copies a month and they often feature images of a talking chimp...um, I mean the president. :D

Darkwolf
 
Well they do complain, and threaten to stop subscribing, as the quotes show.
Would you feel comfortable reading either of them on a train or in an airport waiting area? People have mentioned that as a drawback of such covers.
 
It might be some genetic flaw, but I find that don't really give a damn if pepople in train stations approve of my reading habits.
 
The one on the right's fine. The one on the left- if it was just once in a while, it would be okay, but if it was every cover, I probably wouldn't pick the magazine up. And I would feel a little uncomfortable reading it out in public.

It would seem that some of your readers just haven't decided that the Puritan society has been dead now for a couple of hundred years.
Click to expand...
It's actually not dead. It's just much smaller than it used to be. People that grow up in the church often have a different perspective on things. It can get a little silly sometimes (like the time my youth group shut off The Gods Must Be Crazy because it had naked african tribespeople), but on the whole it has its good points.
 
No I am not going to re-read the Calder serial so I can't comment because it did not stick in my memory, which may be telling about the story or about me. :confused: Either way you win on that but this is probably not the thread to discuss it.

Looking at the view counts in this Art category I am tempted to tell Andy Interzone needs a cover with a female barbarian warrior.
 
This is the cover for the new TTA magazine Black Static.
bs1a.jpg


Transmissions from beyond. Arriving in September.
see BLACK STATIC
 
Nice. Is there a submissions page.

I hope you won't take this ill, but I have looked at web sites of all the TTA mags and they all seem like super cool mags, but they are the most contrary sites I've ever seen for something in the communication field. Hard to navigate or even really comprehend, short on the usual sorts of info. Frustrating.

I found the contributor's page on this one, but it nothing about pay, deadlines, etc. It has a link to "guidelines" which is a dead end. Other links in these mags circle back on themselves.



Now that we're friends, how does one submit?
 
Thanks Lin, I'll pass your comments about the website to the editor.

The BS guidelines are here
Black Static Contributors’ Guidelines let me know if you have problems with them and I'll post them on Chronicles in the Interzone area.

The other side of that cover is here for those interested in the graphics.
http://ttapress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/bs1title.jpg

No deadline for stories only for news and advertisements. Accepted stories will be published.
As for rates you won't get rich but the editor will make an offer if he accepts your story.
 
Thanks, Roy. Your second link returns a 404 page. The first one I saw and thought it was incomplete so clicked on "guidlines" and got weirdness. I now realize those were "Technorati keywords" not links and since I have no idea that that means, anything could happen.
 
Oops, sorry, go to Black Static One then click on the the second thumbnail headed 'Inside cover/page one:'
"Technorati keywords" something to do with seaching the site I believe but I'm no expert so I'll have to ask.

I'll put any further Black Static non-cover news/information in the Interzone section to avoid hijacking this thread.
 
I've loaded a jpg of Interzone 212's cover to the Interzone 212 thread on the Chronicles Interzone area.

It's a chance to see SF from a South American perspective. The artist Osvaldo Gonzalez is an Argentine who now lives in Florida.
At 17 Osvaldo started to work as a graphic artist in Las Flores, his hometown, but in the late 80's he moved to Buenos Aires and worked as a graphic designer.

In the 90s, he worked as graphic designer and illustrator in the music industry with companies like MCA, Nems Enterprises, BMG, Poligram, Universal as patrons.

This century his own artwork has come to the fore. See Pixelium - The Art of Osvaldo Gonzalez and he now lives in Miami.
 
At the Novacon magazines panel the subject of SF magazine covers was raised and some suggested we need more rockets or spaceships on Interzone covers.

Any comments? Do we need to look more like the SF mags of yore?
 
Well no one took up the gauntlet on covers with rockets so here is the cover of Interzone 214 and this one, by Paul Drummond, illustrates one of the stories.

So what do you think? More space art/rockets?
 
What are the requirements for submitting cover art to Interzone - such as DPI, size and resolution?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Thread starter Similar threads Forum Replies Date
Extollager Malvern Hills -- Tolkien angle -- Country Life magazine 20 March 2024 JRR Tolkien 3
Extollager C. S. Lewis Was a Reader of American Pulp Magazines Book Discussion 17
hardsciencefanagain Sf art,interior(magazine) and cover art Art 12
Mr Orange Covering Letters for Magazine Submissions Writing Discussion 3
A T'Pol on cover of Maxim Magazine Enterprise (ENT) 2

Similar threads


Back
Top