It's About Time (Brian Bolland picto-memoir) - released Spring 2023

[Dash Decent]

It's About Time: A Memoir in Pictures and Words by Brian Bolland - Spring 2023

[judgeurko]

Awful cover

[Funt Solo]

 - "So what's this book about?"
 - "Not graphic design."

[nxylas]

- "So what's this book about?"
 - "Not graphic design."

"It's the life and times of possibly comics' greatest cover artist, and I wanted to convey that."

[Dash Decent]

The picture at the bottom of the cover looks like some kind of random placeholder.

[nxylas]

The picture at the bottom of the cover looks like some kind of random placeholder.

CHAPTER ONE: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...

[GordonR]

The picture at the bottom of the cover looks like some kind of random placeholder.

I think some kind of unfunny ‘creator as a kid, as an adult, as a collection of fossils’ comment is being made.

But, really, fuck knows. That cover design’s all over the place.

[Dash Decent]

This is better, but not by much.  It's obviously a great self-portrait by Bolland, but there's not a lot of design going on in this cover design.

[GordonR]

Still sticking with the ‘four different fonts choices for five lines of text’ thing, though.

This is local parish newsletter level stuff, not something you’d associate with a too visual arts professional.

[IndigoPrime]

I’m not a book designer (“You don’t say” – GordonR, after seeing the below), but this is five minutes of faffing from me. Now imagine what a professional in the field could do. I really hope Brian didn’t pay much (or anything) for what he’s got so far, because a few hours with a jobbing pro in the field could net him something far better than this. Like Gordon says, it feels like something that you’d see stuck up on a local notice board, having been sorted by someone battling with Word.

[Dash Decent]

There's something going on with the title too.  Is the different colour at the end of 'Time' meant to give the alternative reading "It's About Me"?

[IndigoPrime]

That’s clearly the intent. But… well…