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Originally Posted by Paperbackstash
They had such fun covers. Zebra and Dorchester also
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I thought the Abyss covers were ugly. I understand wanting to break away from the cheesy (but fun!) skeletons and the like.
Maybe they should have hired Dave McKean to head their cover design. His art is similar to the Abyss covers, except it is good.
I think part of the problem with the Abyss covers is that (in my limited experience) the cover had nothing to do with the book. Here's the cover for Whipping Boy by John Byrne. A decent book, but I have no idea what this cover represents from the story:
Here is a Dave McKean cover for The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish by Neil Gaiman.
The absract style is similar. But the McKean cover also relates to the book in an interesting way.