On est passé à côté de l'info... en mai le magazine Locus a mis à l'honneur l'illustrateur Brom. Ceux qui étaient gamins (les autres aussi d'ailleurs) se souviennent sans doute de ses livres d'illustrations...

C'est à lire ici

Extrait :
‘‘We’re at the transition point. With all the competition for the entertainment dollar, the book market has taken quite a hit. Budgets for covers have shrunk dramatically. Often they can’t afford the quality of artist they would like, and therefore turn to photocollage where they just take stock images and create a cover. But it’s very exciting seeing the Kindle Fire and the iPad come along. In the next two years, I think you’ll buy a book where you can zoom in on the cover, and it’s no longer a cost issue. You’re no longer limited so much by color printing budgets.


‘‘The market just needs a couple more years to mature, and the technology as well. Already Apple is coming out with free software to streamline self-publishing and make it easier. The downside of having it so easy to self-publish is you do get a glut of material that maybe should have never been published in the first place. I’m hoping the market will evolve. I see a real opportunity for the visual and the word to combine, and some of the old prejudice against words and pictures together as somehow being a ‘children’s book’ evaporating.”