Daily Book Graphics #565 / Friday's Feast

©1979 / Illustration: Gil Cohen

Daily Book Graphics #184 / Deep Freeze Girls

©1964 this printing 1968

Daily Book Graphics #130 / The Jet Set

There is so, so much to like about this cover. One of my favorite details are the record covers in the lower left hand corner, one says "Jazz" and the other "Rock 'n' Roll." The book is racy in a softcore kind of way, not that I've read it, of course. The book was published in 1966 right here in Buffalo, New York. I started the Daily Book Graphics project with a set of similar covers.

A New Blog Project: Daily Book Graphics (#1)

So today, (the first day of the rest of my blog), I'm starting a new project where I mine my own personal library for interesting visual material on a daily basis. I was inspired by the numerous projects where people take and post a photograph everyday for a year, and by my friend Mike Kelleher's blog Pearlblossom Highway, where he writes about a book from his collection everyday. I buy a lot of books just for the covers or visual content, unfortunately once they go on the shelf it can be years before I revisit them. This project is going to make me dig into my library in a new way and give me a chance to think about, and curate a collection of visual information. Once I get rolling I'll be setting up a Flickr set to accompany this project.

Book Graphics Daily #1
I bought these dirty (they are pretty tame by today's standards) pulp novels at a garage sale some years ago. They were published in the mid 1960's and are all from different imprints from the same publisher. I'm not as interested in kitsch as I used to be, but boy do I love these smarmy covers! The tag lines are great too, you can't do better than "They hunted for sin in passion country!"

This may be the most brilliant book cover I've ever seen.