Comments on: Boys Own Books

By: John

John — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:34:10 +0000

Thanks Coralie. I know Mick Brownfield’s work from other books. I’ll look forward now to seeing what you do with the Sherlock Holmes!

By: Coralie

Coralie — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:27:42 +0000

Hi John,

I did indeed work on all of these books.

I commissioned four illustrators:
Michael Topping (Prisoner of Zenda)
Neil Gower (39 Steps)
Mark Thomas (She, lost World)
Mick Brownfield (The Man Who Was Thursday, Riddle of the Sands)

I also used a lettering artist, Stephen Raw.

I am currently working on repacking Sherlock Holmes for next year.

Cheers

By: John

John — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:59:50 +0000

Thanks for stopping to make a comment, Coralie. Did you do all of these? I don’t like leaving work uncredited if I can help it.

By: Coralie

Coralie — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:52:01 +0000

Great to see you are spot on with regards to the anarchy feel of the type for The man Who Was Thursday. That was the exact approach I was aiming for when designing the cover. Its nice to see these covers have caught peoples attention.

By: Eroom Nala

Eroom Nala — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:26:38 +0000

sorry I tried to search for the Perfume entry in your archives using Perfume and Suskind but for some reason they didn’t work. I should have just clicked on the {design} category.

Still haven’t read Perfume but I did like the movie.

By: John

John — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:00:48 +0000

The Lost World was pretty dull, as I recall, compared to the delights of Sherlock Holmes.

I included that Penguin cover in my post about the book and the film. Cover looks good although I pointed out then that the novel is concerned with Grenouille’s sense of smell, not that of his victims, so it’s a bit odd to have Laure sniffing up the letters.

By: Eroom Nala

Eroom Nala — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:52:31 +0000

PS
What do you think of the new Red Classics cover for Suskind’s Perfume

http://www.penguin.com.au/lookinside/spotlight.cfm?SBN=9780141023595

Nice green eyes

By: Eroom Nala

Eroom Nala — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:27:51 +0000

I’ve already read all of those titles except for the Lost World.
For my long holiday coming up soon I’m hoping to get through Dumas 3 Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Appropriate reading since I’ll be in France for a week or so.

:-)