Nifty piece of artwork here by a cat named Phil Noto:
There are, of course, quite a few Star Wars tie-in novels that focus on everyone's favorite Corellian smuggler pilot, but none sport a cover done in the style of classic 1960s pulp paperbacks, and that really is a shame, you know? As a lover of that era's commercial illustration aesthetic, I almost wish my favorite movie had been made 10 years earlier. Yeah, I would've missed seeing it in the theaters and all, but just think of all the cool book covers that would've come out!
No? Okay, fine, I'll just enjoy the post-modern retro-fantasy stuff then...
Incidentally, this came to my attention via Boing Boing. Naturally.
There are, of course, quite a few Star Wars tie-in novels that focus on everyone's favorite Corellian smuggler pilot, but none sport a cover done in the style of classic 1960s pulp paperbacks, and that really is a shame, you know? As a lover of that era's commercial illustration aesthetic, I almost wish my favorite movie had been made 10 years earlier. Yeah, I would've missed seeing it in the theaters and all, but just think of all the cool book covers that would've come out!
No? Okay, fine, I'll just enjoy the post-modern retro-fantasy stuff then...
Incidentally, this came to my attention via Boing Boing. Naturally.
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