Miller/Pynchon in Variety Magazine

[jbor at bigpond.com]

It's so unlike Miller's usual style that it's quite striking on that 
basis alone. The colour combination is subtle, really well done. The 
Abstract Expressionist ground has a real texture to it, while the blank 
silhouette effectively conveys a sense of the layers of symbolic and 
thematic significance Pynchon freights the rocket with in the novel. 
It's a trace, an absence, a phantom, not just or only a literal missile 
-- possibilities, potential, menace. And, what's more, it's got 
Pynchon's name on it. In 2006, there's an obvious message that this is 
exactly what the book itself was (and is), dropped onto an unsuspecting 
public.

It's a big improvement on that line of crappy "zany" covers, and the 
blueprint one was really dull as well.

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> I think it fits...
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>> http://www.moebiusgraphics.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=639
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>> It's a nice design, one of the best I've seen.
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>> best
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>> On 03/05/2006, at 11:52 PM, Erik T. Burns wrote:
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>>> Miller time; News Brief 
>>> Steven Zeitchik 
>>> 30 April 2006
>>> Daily Variety 
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>>> © 2006, Variety, Reed Business Information, a division of Reed 
>>> Elsevier, Inc
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>>> When he's not writing new graphic novels for Hollywood to snap up, 
>>> "Sin City" creator Frank Miller has an unusual sideline: drawing for 
>>> Thomas Pynchon.
>>>
>>> Penguin Classics was redesigning its line of influential novels and 
>>> asked Pynchon if he'd like a new jacket for his novel "Gravity's 
>>> Rainbow." At first Pynchon resisted, says publicist Caroline 
>>> Farrington. But he came back and said he'd allow it, on one 
>>> condition: if Miller did the design.
>>>
>>> Miller, at work on the Weinstein Co.'s "Sin City 2," agreed. A new 
>>> edition of the tome will be released in October.
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