Comments on: Judging Book Covers http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/09/23/judging-book-covers/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Wed, 08 May 2013 14:00:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Gamer Librarian http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/09/23/judging-book-covers/#comment-1829 Gamer Librarian Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:38:10 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1150#comment-1829 Ah, but your RSS feeds missed 3/4ths of the Fantasy Cover Art charts. All are from Orbit books. The Orbit blog goes into more depth and analysis (some of which is hilarious), and there are comments by some rather witty Orbit readers.

Chart Number 1, which Boing Boing found, is on general trends:
http://www.orbitbooks.net/2010/08/16/the-chart-of-fantasy-art-part-one/

Chart Number 2 is on Urban Fantasy heroines and the trends in their cover appearances:
http://www.orbitbooks.net/2010/08/17/the-chart-of-fantasy-art-part-2-urban-fantasy/

Chart Number 3 is on Dragons, and which colors got cover appearances this year (my favorites, the blue dragons, were mostly ignored, but not as badly as white dragons).
http://www.orbitbooks.net/2010/08/19/the-chart-of-fantasy-art-part-3-dragons/

Chart Number 4 is similar to a tag cloud, showing which words were used in titles this past year. It was a dark time…
http://www.orbitbooks.net/2010/08/19/the-chart-of-fantasy-art-part-4-title-trends/

According to Orbit, an intern got this assignment, and appears to have done some solid research!

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