July is here! I don’t know about you, but I feel somewhat astonished that we have just stepped over the midpoint of 2015. It hardly seems possible, yet here we are.
It has been a few months since I’ve produced an issue of Cover Story, and this seems a fine time to remedy that grievous injustice. Pull up a chair for your very own visual feast, for Cover Story is all about eye-catching book and magazine art gracing publications due out this month. July looks to be a really good month, though perhaps not for your bank account.
Before continuing on with this month’s showcase, I want to add the usual disclaimer that I am not an artist, nor am I an educated art critic. I know what I like, and armed with that insight I make an effort to be open-minded enough to allow a variety of art and design styles to pique my interest. In the end, the images featured are the ones that caught my eye, they are the books or magazines that I would pick up and give a second glance (and perhaps bring home) were I to see them on a bookstore shelf. The inclusion of each image and the thoughts associated with them are mine alone, and I welcome opinions on each work featured, be they in agreement with my own or not. I also welcome you to submit any images you think should be included in this feature.
There are a number of reasons that I enjoy doing these posts, but the primary purpose is to bring attention to the artists who use their skills to create engaging genre art/design and to give a shout out to those publishers who continue to make the effort to use art and design work to sell science fiction, fantasy and horror publications.
As always, I thank John DeNardo for the monthly jumping off point that I use to begin my review of each month. You can see hundreds more July 2015 releases on his post here.
Welcome to July 2015. Enjoy!
(The opening image, featured again later in this post, is property of artist Richard Anderson)
