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Viz has messes up on the Angel Sanctuary cover




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littlegreenwolf



Joined: 10 Aug 2002
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Location: Seattle, WA
PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:03 pm Reply with quote
Viz has submitted what I hope to god is just the promotional cover to their Angel Sanctuary release. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1591162459.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Yeah, I may be over reacting, but give me an hour and I could easily produce a better cover in photoshop. Geeze, they can't even spell "Story" right. I hope the person who was to proof read that got in trouble. *is grouchy* I really hope Angel Sanctuary doesn't get a cover with THAT font and and THAT cupid on the cover. The person really needs to go back to graphic design class and learn about color and atmosphere again.
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molloaggie



Joined: 30 Jun 2003
Posts: 578
Location: Texas
PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:25 pm Reply with quote
Viz released a pretty lousy cover pic of Rurouni Kenshin also. The actual cover was a lot better. I hope that it's the same situation here. I know the plot of Angel Sanctuary and those soft colors definitely don't cut it.
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Aaron White
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Joined: 23 Aug 2002
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:33 pm Reply with quote
If you read Previews you'll see that companies including Viz often submit sample images that are only rough versions of the finished product. Almost every issue has an ugly picture of something, and the finished product turns out totally different. Don't panic!
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radicaledward



Joined: 02 Mar 2003
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 2:52 am Reply with quote
Still, even if it is a rough cover - there is no excuse for a publishing company to have "sorty" on the cover of a book. Thats too gross of a mis-spelling for me to think it might be a typo.

Unless they did it on purpose.
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Dilandau



Joined: 06 Jan 2004
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:19 am Reply with quote
They 'preview' covers for certain reasons. One of them is for response.

Send them an email and complain. Don't be snobby, but professionally as possible, type up a little letter explaining your reasons for why you think it should be different (i.e. the colour scheme)

They, more than likely, will never respond to you, but they will pay attention to it.

Working in a production department is hell made with fonts and type sets. Things get overlooked, they don't always catch things unless it is brought to their attention.
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