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mae
03-30-2009, 02:55 PM
As nominated by our membership in the nomination round, please vote now for the cover you feel should win the award for Best Trade Edition Cover Art.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/JustAfterSunset.jpg
http://stephenking.com/images/books/desperation/hardcover_prop_embed.jpg
http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/510/medium/Dolores_Claiborne_face.jpg
http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/510/medium/Lisey_s_Story_face.jpg
http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/542/nighshift.jpg
http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq243/scgriz/DumaKey.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk95/turtlesong/nightmaresdreamscapes.jpg
Sam
03-30-2009, 03:52 PM
Have to go with Duma Key here. Front and back of the cover, it is a fully realized picture that is beautiful and terrifying at the same time. I can actually feel the malevolence building in the distance.
razz
03-30-2009, 04:09 PM
Have to go with Duma Key here. Front and back of the cover, it is a fully realized picture that is beautiful and terrifying at the same time. I can actually feel the malevolence building in the distance.Ummmm...What he said :D
Heather19
03-30-2009, 04:33 PM
Desperation. It's just perfect. And I also love how they connected it to The Regulators.
Brice
03-30-2009, 04:34 PM
I absolutely love some of the others, but my vote went with the Night Shift cover; an old favorite.
Jean
03-30-2009, 10:26 PM
Desperation. It's just perfect. And I also love how they connected it to The Regulators.
once again, the bear has voted the same! http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gifhttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gifhttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gif
Heather19
03-31-2009, 03:04 PM
Desperation. It's just perfect. And I also love how they connected it to The Regulators.
once again, the bear has voted the same! http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gifhttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gifhttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gif

:couple: I think I may really be your long lost cousin Jean!
mia/susannah
03-31-2009, 04:27 PM
Desperation, I love the cover
Woofer
03-31-2009, 05:47 PM
Desperation

I love the entire cover, but I am especially enamored of the doll in the foreground, its red eye bulging out toward the reader and its green eye staring blankly into nothingness. That element alone perfectly captures the emotion conveyed by the word desperation: no child willingly parts with a much beloved toy.
sarajean
03-31-2009, 08:08 PM
Desperation

I love the entire cover, but I am especially enamored of the doll in the foreground, its red eye bulging out toward the reader and its green eye staring blankly into nothingness. That element alone perfectly captures the emotion conveyed by the word desperation: no child willingly parts with a much beloved toy.

:couple:

i'm sorry, but i don't get the just after sunset nomination.
Sam
03-31-2009, 08:23 PM
Come on people. You can't let Duma Key lose this one!!!
Jean
03-31-2009, 10:59 PM
:couple: I think I may really be your long lost cousin Jean!
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Messages/bears.jpg
alinda
04-01-2009, 03:28 AM
A toss up between Desperation, and Duma Key:pullhair:I choose Duma Key.
Sam and I have been on the same wavelength all day!:wtf:
ManOfWesternesse
04-01-2009, 04:49 AM
Duma Key!
alinda
04-01-2009, 04:54 AM
:huglove:QWere going neck to neck on this one!Q
mae
04-01-2009, 05:59 AM
i'm sorry, but i don't get the just after sunset nomination.

I nominated it and it was thirded during the nomination process. I think it's one of the more original covers I have seen, not just of King's books. I love the colors, the gradual sunset coloring of the text, the dizzying 3D effect, the font, everything.
Heather19
04-02-2009, 01:41 PM
I like the Just After Sunset cover as well. At first I wasn't too sure about it, but it's grown on me.
And the Duma Key cover I love everything with the one exception of the canvas with the stuff jumping out of it. I don't know, for some reason that just really turned me off. I wish they had omitted that, and maybe stuck Perse off in the background.
Jean
04-02-2009, 09:15 PM
And the Duma Key cover I love everything with the one exception of the canvas with the stuff jumping out of it. I don't know, for some reason that just really turned me off. I wish they had omitted that, and maybe stuck Perse off in the background.
Yes. Don't know about Perse, but the frog and the harpoon make the thing definitely cartoonish. Don't get me wrong, bears love cartoons... but Duma Key was more than three-dimensional, and that thing in the corner makes it plainer, simpler than it was.
mae
04-06-2009, 02:59 PM
The poll has closed and the winner of our inaugural Best Trade Edition Cover Art Award, receiving 9 votes (37.50%), is:


Desperation
BROWNINGS CHILDE
04-06-2009, 07:29 PM
The canvas in the corner is my favorite part of the cover for Duma Key. It seems very much like Dali, who was the main artistic inspiration.
Woofer
04-07-2009, 04:03 AM
Go Desperation!
mia/susannah
04-07-2009, 04:33 AM
yay!!! Desperation!!!