The cover is your first impression of a comic book, and a great cover gets someone to pick it up and give it a look, making a ...

Go ahead, judge that book by its cover. Book cover designers picked the best book covers of 2025 and told us what makes them so great. Skip to main content. A Trusted Friend in a Complicated World.

Publishing leaders, art directors, and academics tell us how the visuals associated with romance novels have changed ...

We all know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. But it’s hard not to be influenced by that first impression. Publishers and designers know this and work hard to catch your eye — and get ...

Below, Reed chose eight lesser-known book cover designs that are exceptional. [Photo: courtesy Jesse Reed] 1. PRESENT PAST, PAST PRESENT, 1971 “This is a stop-me-in-my-tracks book cover,” says ...

A deep neural network, which has four layers of up to 512 neurons each, was able to correctly identify what genre a book belongs to just by analyzing its cover. The resulting rate of accuracy is ...

Dan Kois writes about the graphic artist Lorraine Louie, and her cover designs for the book publisher Random House’s Vintage Contemporaries series.

For Busayo, the “onus needs to come from publishers” who are releasing dark romance books to indicate the nature of the content “first and foremost” on the cover.

Carin Goldberg, a graphic designer whose pathbreaking work included covers for Madonna’s first album and thousands of books, including a series of Kurt Vonnegut paperbacks that reinvigorated the ...