Ghastly Artwork

[Andrew]

Are you KIDDING?!

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[Danny Stephenson]

THAT IS HILARIOUS!!

[John Hoare]

Bloody hell. That is… bloody hell. How did anybody approve that? And WHY do they look so strange?

On the subject of QI:

The marketing of QI into seemingly every media possible – especially the books – reminds me of Spitting Image. Not the content or subject matter, just the way it’s infiltrating into every media through the means of Quite Interesting Limited. Not surprising, given the involvement of John Lloyd in both companies.

[Arlene Rimmer BSc SSc]

>And WHY do they look so strange?

Maybe it’s just my eyes or my monitor or something, but they look like they’ve been Photoshopped to hell and back, if that’s what you meant.

[Andrew]

> they look like they?ve been Photoshopped to hell and back

They’ve obviously been snapped separately, but then the heads, bodies AND hands all seem to belong to different shots. It’s bizarre.

Though I’d hate to take anything away from the text at the top, which says ‘QI’ twice.

What C designed this thing?

[Danny Stephenson]

I’m expecting it to turn up on Photoshop Disasters.

“This shit and hopefully temporary artwork was brought to you by the Letter C”

[pfm]

Stephen Fry’s facial expression coupled with his hand on Alan Davies’s shoulder suggests something rather…not like QI. A total disaster and yet still good because it’s funny as fuck! Please god don’t let the new Dwarf DVD look anything remotely like this.

Speaking of new Dwarf I really want an advert where the voiceover is ‘This April (or whenever it is) Dave *insert new clip of Lister* comes to Dave’ Also, wouldn’t it be great to have some short promos done in character? Maybe Holly as the continuity announcer. Once they get the cast in costume they should try to do as much as possible in the time they’ve got.

[TheLeen]

> I?m expecting it to turn up on Photoshop Disasters.

Yes.

[Danny Stephenson]

Please god don?t let the new Dwarf DVD look anything remotely like this.

GNP are involved with that, you’re quite safe.

[Phil]

I’m hoping the new DVD looks like this:

[hummingbird]

OMG YES. Please let it look like that.

[Danny Stephenson]

That picture offends me greatly

[John Hoare]

As someone – was it you, Seb? – said a while back, that cover is pretty interesting. Yes, OK, it’s bad… but it’s also a valuable insight into a world where the TV series *doesn’t* exist – and the books *are* the Dwarf universe. It’s an interesting – if unsuccessful – take on the characters.

[Phil]

My favorite thing about the book-universe is that Rimmer’s older brother is named Luigi, and Rimmer gets his hand-me-down overalls.

[John Hoare]

Odd thing about the book cover – Holly is actually got down pretty well. In fact, that blue background I’m sure ISN’T in the books, but *is* in Series 1. Did they use the TV series as reference for Holly, but nobody else? (In fact, is he even described as pixellated in the books?)

In fact, I’ve just had a thought. Is all this because they would have had to pay the actors for use of their likeness on the book cover – but the Holly one is so distorted that it didn’t matter for him?

[Mnoooah]

I just reciently listened to the audiobook and he *is* called pixillated, though personally I think he looks nothing like Norman, more ‘a pixillated Mr. Clean.’ It’s closeish, but I think it’s safe to conclude that the artist didn’t burdon thier imagination either with the tv version or very much of the book. Lister is too clean and has no dreadlocks, Rimmer is too blue collar, ect. I think the lesson that we can all take away to our own production companies is that it’s actually pretty important to vet this stuff before it goes to print.

And the QI label? That is the last time they let Alan near the cover art.

[Phil]

Yeah, the QI one is some AWFUL photoshopping. I mean, Fry’s nose isn’t even pointing forward!

[Danny Stephenson]

Fry?s nose isn?t even pointing forward

But Stephen’s nose is already oh I get ya…

[Mnoooah]

I don’t. The hell?

[Ridley]

They?ve obviously been snapped separately, but then the heads, bodies AND hands all seem to belong to different shots. It?s bizarre.

Much like the Scrubs DVD sets.

[ChrisM]

I wonder if the headshot of Fry was taken a few years back. He looks a bit younger to me, but that might just be the expression.

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