According to his gallery page, he did some art for Brandon Sanderson in 2014, so it looks like he's still relatively active in the book arena. But ha, I will have to look up those Pern covers.
Leo Dillon is deceased and Diane Dillon might be basically retired (she's in her 80s), but it looks like the rest of them are active in some form or fashion.
I don't get all the money spent on this book. Do they already have a TV or movie deal? Did they have a deal before it was even published?
I guess at this point Hollywood can throw whatever they can frantically find to try to recreate Hunger Games, and this might not a ~terrible~ choice given Aladdin (but then there is The Sun is also a Star to throw a wrench in that thinking), but today's teens deserve better than I'm dying!/deported!/whatever thing YA movies are at right now. Kids should be having fun and laughing, not be hella depressed.
It was a number one bestseller but they redid the charts a few years back because nothing new was making it because kids still buy the fault in our stars like it's candy. Not as hard to chart in hardcover ya releases. Iirc it also got a huge publishing deal and the fact the author is so young was a big pitching point just like with divergent.
I'd be shocked if there were tons of people out there buying this in HC that weren't libraries, although library sales are probably a very nice chunk of change.
But who are these mythical other people who buy hardcovers? Who has the space? Or do they just buy them to take pictures for their bookstagram/book pimping pics and just sell them to a used book dealer afterwards?
Reminder to self: see how many copies of this are at 2nd & Charles the next time I go there.
There are 4 women in the artists category (Kinuko and Galen are ladies), so it's not exactly half, but as a graphics novel reader, I'm glad I am seeing more and more ladies on the art side. More than 50%! More than 50%!
I have no idea why some of those graphic novel artists aren't getting nommed. Monstress and other series, like Saga and others, would have a stranglehold on the category, if so. But I guess they've got some arbitrary rule with the artist categories. Sure, people are doing covers, but SF/F seems to be more heavily represented art-wise on the graphics novel side now. There's probably some "real" book snootiness involved.
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Leo Dillon is deceased and Diane Dillon might be basically retired (she's in her 80s), but it looks like the rest of them are active in some form or fashion.
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I guess at this point Hollywood can throw whatever they can frantically find to try to recreate Hunger Games, and this might not a ~terrible~ choice given Aladdin (but then there is The Sun is also a Star to throw a wrench in that thinking), but today's teens deserve better than I'm dying!/deported!/whatever thing YA movies are at right now. Kids should be having fun and laughing, not be hella depressed.
Jennifer Lawrence, this is totes your fault.
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But who are these mythical other people who buy hardcovers? Who has the space? Or do they just buy them to take pictures for their bookstagram/book pimping pics and just sell them to a used book dealer afterwards?
Reminder to self: see how many copies of this are at 2nd & Charles the next time I go there.
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FairyLoot had a big box based on it, but that's a UK thing.
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I have no idea why some of those graphic novel artists aren't getting nommed. Monstress and other series, like Saga and others, would have a stranglehold on the category, if so. But I guess they've got some arbitrary rule with the artist categories. Sure, people are doing covers, but SF/F seems to be more heavily represented art-wise on the graphics novel side now. There's probably some "real" book snootiness involved.
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