24 Responses to “Now That’s Art!”

1. Kristie (J) Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 4:48 am

   1 The first thing I noticed(OK OK - not the first thing)was the poor man’s teeny weeny head. I guess the steroids don’t work past chest level. And they would also explain his “other” problem too.

2. einsteinella Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 5:01 am

   2 Is he wanking in a CHURCH??? There is soooo much wrong here…

3. Shuzluva Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 6:10 am

   3 I think my eyeballs exploded from the number of things that are just so wrong with this cover. And wrong in this case is NOT HOT.

4. Tara Marie Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 6:16 am

   4 He looks more like a deranged Ken Doll on steroids, and we all know Ken has nothing to… well, you know.

5. SKapusniak Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 8:59 am

   5 It can’t believe that’s real. I refuse to believe that’s real. Nope, it’s a sophisticated troll, and any moment someone is going to jump out on us, point fingers and go ‘Ha! Ha! You fell for it!’ Please?

6. Bonnie Dee Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 9:36 am

   6 He doesn’t have a cock. If he does it must be pretzel-stick sized to hide under his hand. But the eyes … the eyes are what I can’t look away from. They’re almost hypnotic in their wackiness.

7. meljean brook Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 10:52 am

   7 His eyes — is he supposed to be giving a come-hither wink? (which is even creepier than crazy) It looks to me like one lid is closed.

8. Katharina Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 11:09 am

   8 I am not sure he actually HAS a left eye, it looks like Sharon Stone used her ice pick again to be sure to still know how “it’s” done *G*. I like his calves, nice and slim and haireless. If his head however is any indication of how this pea siced “love staff” is proportioned I will pass and buy myself a BOB.

9. web Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 11:42 am

   9 OH.MY.GOD. I’m so happy I’m reading this on an empty stomach.

10. Devon Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 12:48 pm

    10 He’s lifting an ass cheek so he can let one go.

11. Doug Hoffman Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 1:26 pm

    11 Hey, I modelled for this one. Y’all are hurting my feelings.

12. Kimberly Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 1:31 pm

    12 Oh dear me…my eyes are actually watering from the laughter. It is soooo wrong in soooo many ways…just look at the crease of his leg. Of course, if this were a Ken doll it would explain why the hand covers everything…as Ken doesn’t have a unit, at all.

13. Robyn Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 4:33 pm

    13 walking in on your little brother whacking off to a video of a woman sucking off a donkey in Tijuana! I must be reeeeeeally sheltered.

14. CG Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 6:42 pm

    14 The thing that disturbs me is that his legs are an ENTIRELY different color than the rest of his body. It’s just creepy!!

15. Avid Reader Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 9:01 pm

    15 Yep, he does look like he was caught playing with his tiny pecker. Keishon

16. dancechica Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 10:18 pm

    16 He’s lifting an ass cheek so he can let one go. Now that was just too funny for my twisted self! LMAO

17. CindyS Posted: Jun 23rd, 2006 at 11:50 pm

    17 Great. A hairless, tiny headed - yes both - man playing with his wee pecker while letting one rip. Romance is officially dead. CindyS

18. Karen Scott Posted: Jun 24th, 2006 at 1:46 am

    18 How can anybody possibly defend this cover?

19. ag Posted: Jun 24th, 2006 at 7:52 am

    19 How can anyone ever dream of using such a cover? It’s extreme bad taste!!!!

20. Barbara B. Posted: Jun 24th, 2006 at 8:07 am

    20 Poor Changeling Press. They’ve been thoroughly mocked lately because of bad covers. I assumed the covers were intentionally silly. Now I’m not so sure after the owner Margaret Riley displayed so much anger and offense at Karen Scott’s blog. I agree some of the covers are questionable but I really love the stories I buy from Changeling. I never thought about this but does the cover art influence whether or not anyone buys a book?

21. sybil Posted: Jun 24th, 2006 at 11:19 am

    21 bbbbbwwwwaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh you are most welcome I shall look for more to send you soon cuz I rock like that *g*. I still can’t get over how small his hand is. And I agree with barb I always thought they were suppose to be bad, que shock that these peeps are serious. I have always clicked out of changeling because I couldn’t make it past the covers or summaries. The only author I have read is AK and I have a few of Dakota’s to be read.

22. SKapusniak Posted: Jun 24th, 2006 at 12:12 pm

    22 Barbara B, Assuming I don’t have a specific author or title already in mind when I get the itch to buy something to read, then as I browse through the huge pile of potential titles available — like you see on the front of an ebook publishers web site for instance — then the ones that have nice cover art are going to be the first ones I’m going to click on to see more about. Only if I don’t find something that sounds interesting among the stuff with the attractive covers, will I move on to the ones with the workmanlike okay covers. Anything with an ugly cover will end up at the bottom of the list to be looked at, and had better hope I haven’t found anything that sounds interesting before I get to it. And there is definately a threshold of ugliness below which I’m just not going to consider looking any further. I mean, it’s just a click of the mouse to go to look at what another publisher has to offer. There are so darn many ebook publisher’s these days, all putting out lots of titles, so many it would be impossible for me to even read the blurb of all them, let alone every book itself. Again, this is only if I don’t have a particular author or book in mind and am just browsing around with a general sort of idea of what I want. But if lots of other people have also made their purchase and left before even getting to the poor author’s book with the ugly duckling cover, is they’re going to be anyone from whom am I going to get the recommendation or suggestion that’s going to prompt me to specifically seek that title out? So, I can’t see how having a horrible cover for their book can do anything but hurt an author’s sales

23. kitschweb Posted: Jun 26th, 2006 at 8:47 am

    23 Wow…ok, I’ve wiped my eyes and picked myself up off the floor. Can’t keep up with blogs, but someone sent me a link to Karen’s Changeling controversy this morning (btw, thumbnails are fair game - you can put ‘em back up). Thought it was funny, but scary bitchy as I read through the comments - got a chuckle or two out of it and thought I’d come here and check out the way bad covers. This Changeling placeholder knocked me on my ass. I suppose what floors me is 1) the publisher is defensive instead of apologetic, and 2) the publisher doesn’t realize that a lot of us buy books by their covers. Money is a lame excuse since you could get better covers from a community college graphic design class for $200 a pop or less (or even free if you ran a contest or something). Hell, you could do a nicely designed text cover and I might even consider buying the book. I, too, had assumed that most of the CGI crap was just some sort of e-book in-joke (”Covers? We don’t need no stinkin’ covers!”) though I still can’t get past most of them to actually buy one of the titles. I’ve had good luck buying pulp from publishers who care enough about their authors not to saddle them with covers that prevent people from buying the books! too funny…

24. lightening Posted: Jun 28th, 2006 at 7:27 am

    24 He’s not masterbating, he’s hiding his tiny little johnson with his tiny little hand. And his freakishly big eyes are saying,”oh crap, I hope they can’t see my tiny little man parts”. I wonder if he can see his little dangly bits since his tities are so puffy. I bet he can’t figure out how he got on the chaise lounge cause I’m sure he has a tiny little brain as well.