{"id":436,"date":"2006-12-29T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2006\/12\/29\/locus-onlines-cover-art-gallery\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:49:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:49:57","slug":"locus-onlines-cover-art-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2006\/12\/29\/locus-onlines-cover-art-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Locus Online’s Cover Art Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve said it before, but I\u2019ll say it officially here in the blogosphere \u2014 the sf\/f field owes a big thanks to Mark R. Kelly for his terrific work as the administrator of Locus Online\u2019s annual, ongoing cover art gallery<\/a> for the science fiction\/fantasy literary field. I suspect that if you\u2019re reading this, you\u2019re probably well aware of Mark\u2019s database, but if not, please visit.<\/p>\n

The alphabetical listing by illustrator contains cover graphics, artist credits, publication dates and publisher names. It even keeps an ongoing tally of the artists in the field with the most covers published in the given year (some familiar names there at the top\u2026:)).<\/p>\n

The database is not all-inclusive. I may be wrong, but I suspect the gallery is a representation of the books and magazines that LOCUS MAGAZINE receives and reviews, and that means that a lot of covers aren\u2019t shown. Another thing to remember is that the majority of the cover graphics link to Amazon.com, which is great because you can read about the book in question. However, what some folks may not know is that some of those graphics posted on Amazon are occasionally catalog comps, which are then finalized for publication via refinements of the cover illustration and\/or typography. So sometimes you\u2019re not looking at the final version of a given cover. A minor quibble, but that doesn\u2019t diminish the fact that the gallery\u2019s a TREMENDOUS resource. If you\u2019re a fan or professional involved in the field of sf\/fantasy art, please give Mark a shout and let him know his effort is appreciated. Happy New Year, Mark, and thanks for making the whole field more informed!<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve said it before, but I\u2019ll say it officially here in the blogosphere \u2014 the sf\/f field owes a big thanks to Mark R. Kelly for his terrific work as the administrator of Locus Online\u2019s annual, ongoing cover art gallery for the science fiction\/fantasy literary field. I suspect that if you\u2019re reading this, you\u2019re probably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-72","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}