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After reading Kidd's semi-autobiographical novels, it was fun to get a parallel view of how his schooling and friendships led to his current book cover success. There's a little biographical background here, but mostly photos of covers, with commentary by both Kidd and sometimes the authors of the books. He gives ample credit to collaborators, and shows rejected ideas beside the final product so that the reader can get a feel for the process too. I'm in awe of the huge amount of reading he has done, since of course he needs to know the books in order to find the essence to distill into the cover art. I myself have read only a very small percentage of what is pictured here, but in the case of the ones I do know, the covers fit well.

Kidd doesn't have an immediately recognizable style, but all his covers are direct, clean, and fresh. They look good. For contrast, he shows a few instances of paperback versions of the same books that use different covers by other designers--why is it that these are so often so awful? Do publishers think that purchasers of paperbacks don't care about good appropriate-to-the-story design?

Kidd's work is worthy of repeated viewings--for book lovers, truly a feast.