[Jaremaing]

I hope I'm posting this in the right forum. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there doesn't appear to be a general series board.

I own most of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, but the cover artist varies for each one. On Gardens of the Moon, Midnight Tides, The Bonehunters, and Dust of Dreams (I don't own the Crippled God quite yet), the cover art is credited to Steve Stone.

On Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice, House of Chains, Reaper's Gale, and Toll the Hounds, it's credited to Carol Russo Design. What matters is the words, of course, and the words are excellent, but it does create an uneven feel on the bookshelf.

I'm not complaining, I just want to know why some have different designed covers than others. I'm sure there's a fascinating reason for it, because I've been unable to find a consistent cover design in any book store.

Thank you for helping.

[D'rek]

 Jaremaing, on 28 August 2011 - 02:47 AM, said:

I hope I'm posting this in the right forum. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there doesn't appear to be a general series board.

I own most of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, but the cover artist varies for each one. On Gardens of the Moon, Midnight Tides, The Bonehunters, and Dust of Dreams (I don't own the Crippled God quite yet), the cover art is credited to Steve Stone.

On Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice, House of Chains, Reaper's Gale, and Toll the Hounds, it's credited to Carol Russo Design. What matters is the words, of course, and the words are excellent, but it does create an uneven feel on the bookshelf.

I'm not complaining, I just want to know why some have different designed covers than others. I'm sure there's a fascinating reason for it, because I've been unable to find a consistent cover design in any book store.

Thank you for helping.

I might not be 100% correct on this, but here's what I think is the case:

MBotF is published by Bantam in the UK, Australia, Canada, etc., but in the US is published by Tor (and therefore comes out 6 months to a year later). Bantam and Tor each made and used their own covers for their publications of the novels up to TtH. For whatever reason, for DoD and TCG Tor used the Bantam covers so those novels look the same.

Furhtermore, around tBH or so, Bantam changed around the title font and layout on their covers into the design with the big metal helmet. RG and onwards have the big helmet design, but the books from GotM to tBH were re-printed with new covers including the helmet design.

[Jaremaing]

Thank you. That makes sense.

[Salt-Man Z]

Carol Russo Design just does, like, the logos and text and whatnot. The actual cover artist for most of the Tor (original) editions is Todd Lockwood. Newer editions, however, mostly use Steve Stone artwork.

The original Tor cover artists:

GotM - Stephen Youll
DG - Steve Stone
MoI through TtH - Todd Lockwood
DoD & TCG - Steve Stone

Sound like your Steve Stone covers of GotM, MT, and TB are the new reprint editions.

What sucks is that Tor changed the entire design of the books, starting with DoD, to better match the Bantam UK editions, and are slowly redoing the previous books as reprints are required. At the moment, it's impossible to get a "matching set" of Tor editions.