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THE ART OF THE BOX – The Best in Video Game Cover Art"The Art Of The Box feiert eine treuherzige Zeit, in der Kaufentscheidungen oft von der Qualitt des Covers eines Spiels beeinflusst wurden. The Art Of The Box wirft ein lngst berflliges Licht auf die Talente von Legenden wie Bob Wakelin, Tom DuBois und Susumu Matsushita und ist ein Muss fr jeden Retro Gamer, der etwas auf sich hlt" 9 10, Nintendo Life Vor der Zeit der Markenbekanntheitskampagnen und des digitalen Marketings beschrnkte sich die einzige

"The Art Of The Box feiert eine treuherzige Zeit, in der Kaufentscheidungen oft von der Qualität des Covers eines Spiels beeinflusst wurden. The Art Of The Box wirft ein längst überfälliges Licht auf die Talente von Legenden wie Bob Wakelin, Tom DuBois und Susumu Matsushita und ist ein Muss für jeden Retro-Gamer, der etwas auf sich hält" 9/10, Nintendo Life

Vor der Zeit der Markenbekanntheitskampagnen und des digitalen Marketings beschränkte sich die einzige Werbequelle für ein Spiel oft auf die Verpackung, die man in den Regalen der Spieleläden sah. Da die frühen Spielegrafiken wenig visuelles Interesse boten, war es Aufgabe der Verpackung, fesselnde Bilder von Weltraumschlachten, mittelalterlichen Rittern und Zauberern, explosiven Militäroperationen und monströsen außerirdischen Kreaturen zu zaubern. Und jedes Cover musste von einem Künstler mit traditionellen Medien handgefertigt werden – oft mit einer kurzen Frist und den vagesten Vorgaben.

The Art Of The Box enthält 26 Biografien von Künstlern, die irgendwann in ihrer Karriere die Verpackungen von Videospielen illustriert haben, darunter Bob Wakelin, Steve Hendricks, Ken Macklin, Tom DuBois, Steinar Lund, Marc Ericksen, Julie Bell und Susumu Matsushita und viele andere. Mit Informationen aus Live-Interviews, wo immer es möglich war, sprechen wir über ihre Anfänge als Künstler, ihre Inspirationen und Einflüsse, die Spiele, die sie illustriert haben, und den Weg, den ihre künstlerische Karriere genommen hat.

Einige Künstler haben nur eine Handvoll Cover über einen kurzen Zeitraum hinweg gestaltet, andere waren maßgeblich an der Entwicklung des Erscheinungsbildes von Videospielmarken wie Ocean Software, Konami und Capcom beteiligt. Aber alle haben mit ihren prächtigen Originalwerken, von denen viele heute auf dem Sammlermarkt hohe Preise erzielen, einen unauslöschlichen Eindruck in der Branche hinterlassen.

Mit Künstlern aus Großbritannien, Europa, Nordamerika und Japan umfasst The Art Of The Box die gesamte Bandbreite der Illustration von Spieleverpackungen, von den Anfängen der kultigen VCS-Verpackungen von Atari bis hin zur modernen Zusammenarbeit zwischen Designern, CG-Künstlern und Spieleentwicklern für die neuesten AAA-Spiele. Jede Biografie wird von aufwändigen, vollfarbigen Schachtelgrafiken begleitet, die von den Künstlern selbst zur Verfügung gestellt wurden, und jedes Artwork wird ohne die üblichen Logos und Verkaufselemente präsentiert, damit jedes Stück so betrachtet werden kann, wie es der Künstler beabsichtigt hat.

Da sich die Spielewelt unwiderruflich in Richtung digitaler Downloads und Spieleabonnements bewegt, wird die traditionelle Schachtelkunst eines Tages der Vergangenheit angehören. Aber eine kleine Auswahl dieser lebhaften Höhenflüge der Fantasie wird in The Art Of The Box für immer gefeiert werden.

Dieses umfangreiche und gründlich recherchierte Buch umfasst 564 Seiten mit über 100.000 Wörtern und mehr als 350 Farbbildern. The Art Of The Box wird nach den gewohnt hohen Standards von Bitmap Books produziert und ist im gebundenen Format mit schwerem, glänzendem Papier, unglaublicher Druckqualität und einem Lesezeichen erhältlich.

Ausgewählte Künstler:
Charles Bae, Julie Bell, Gerald Brom, Frank Cirocco, Grzegorz Domaradzki, Tom DuBois, Marc Ericksen, Oliver Frey, Steve Hendricks, Paul Kidby, Michael Koelsch, Denis Loubet, Steinar Lund, Ken Macklin, Lee MacLeod, Susumu Matsushita, Rodney Matthews, Roger Motzkus, Shinkiro and Eisuke Ogura, Stephen Peringer, Dermot Power, David Rowe, Junior Tomlin, Dudu Torres, Bob Wakelin and Mike Winterbauer.

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FireCapt.
Houston, US
★★★★★ 5
Beautiful story
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Loved this book and the way it was written. Written words are a beautiful thing. Highly recommend this book to all
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Frank Mathews Jr.
Whiting, US
★★★★★ 4
Heartwarming & real!
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Life can be so difficult ...this story is about learning that we all make mistakes along the way, doing the best we can. Its about learning to forgive ourselves. Beautiful.
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LCD
West Palm Beach, US
★★★★★ 5
many feelings
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I didn’t know what this book was about when I first started reading.. one thing I felt at the beginning was…amazement? I love writing letters, something I don’t do often, I recently bought this beautiful fountain pen, I wanted to start small, writing greeting cards to family and friends, birthday cards, thank yous, etc. what I didn’t expect is the emotional toll this book had on me, and other members of my family who read the book for our book club. The subject matters, death of a child, husband dying of cancer, the significance of May 29th, all impacted our family, and so, as I read this book, I had to put it down several times because I had to cry, compose myself, think of regrets I have, and remember. How amazing it is that Sybil was able to write all about the death of her child to her dead child. I always say that writing it down on paper releases your burden in your head…it is true, I think writing letters, even the ones she didn’t send helped her quiet her head, at least for a while. I truly love this book. I have been borrowing books from Libby to read for our book club for a very long time, there have been books that I fell in love with, and always thought if I want to read them again I’ll just borrow them again, this book is the first one that I want to own physically to put on my shelf and know that I have it to read over and over again when I want to reflect and then quiet my head. ( This is the longest review I’ve written about a book I’ve read, I hope it makes sense).
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L. Higgins
Port Orchard, US
★★★★★ 5
Successful Epistolary Novel
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When we first meet Sybil Van Antwerp, age 73, she is retired from law and spends a lot of time writing letters and emails. She also reads a lot and is interested in what her correspondents are reading. She has children and grandchildren, but she lives alone in Annapolis, Maryland, and doesn’t see her family very often. During the course of reading her correspondence, we very gradually learn about Sybil—her history and her present troubles. She is a complicated character and several times in reading The Correspondent I paused to ask myself what I thought of Sybil—did I like her? What about her kept me from the immediate response a reader usually has about the main character of a book? Even at the end of the book, I am still ambivalent about Sybil, but I certainly understand her much better. Sybil, herself, and the book have so many layers. There is true depth to the story. My book club took deep dives into it over a period of three weeks, and I don’t think we have sampled all the topics represented in this book. It is a wonderful novel for stimulating meaningful discussion. Neurodivergence is not called out or named, but it comes to mind in thinking about Harry, a child who is the son of a judge, a former colleague of Sybil. The boy doesn’t quite fit in socially with his peers, but he is brilliant. Sybil makes the perfect “pen pal” for Harry because they have some of the same characteristics. As a child she was punished for “insolence and rudeness,” but her parents were just trying to mold her into a polite young lady as expected by society. She was blunt and didn’t have many friends. There are so many other issues worthy of discussion, but they would most certainly bring up spoilers. I won’t do that to you. Readers should have the opportunity to see the story gradually emerge from the letters, including a continuing one that the reader doesn’t know to whom Sybil is writing. Sybil sets the word “stone” for secrets, and there are stones in this book making it a puzzle, a mystery of sorts—for the reader. As a reviewer, I tend to go quickly from one book to the next as soon as I have composed and published my thoughts. Characters in various books can even blend together. This is not the case with The Correspondent. The characters in this book, especially Sybil, have stayed with me and come to mind frequently as I go through my day. Virginia Evans has created a fictional world with impact. Just as Sybil needed time (years in her case) to process the events of her life, the reader will need time to process them and their effects on Sybil as well.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2026
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She Treads Softly
San Leandro, US
★★★★★ 5
exceptional, very highly recommended character-driven literary family drama
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Whistler by Ann Patchett is an exceptional, very highly recommended character-driven literary family drama which will definitely be one of the best books I've read this year. In Whistler Patchett has given us a beautifully written, eloquent, insightful and sensitive story encompassing the complexity of families, connections, and relationships over time. I love everything about this book. As they were visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Daphne Fuller's retired husband Jonathan notices an older man following them and they discover he is Eddie Triplett, Daphne's former stepfather. She hasn't seen him for 44 years but immediately remembers her love for him and the bond they had for a couple years. The two also shared a traumatic experience when she was nine and they were in a car accident. Immediately after this Daphne's mother divorced Eddie and he disappeared from her life. After this chance meeting and reconnection, Daphne immediately and understandably needs to see and tell her younger sister, Leda, about it. The sisters had a complicated childhood that Daphne never felt was very happy. Daphne and Leda's biological father, Buddy Zabriskie, was a deep-sea fisherman and left the family early, although the girls had a relationship with him. Then their mother married Eddie and both girls loved him for the brief time he was in their lives. Their third and final stepfather, Lucas Ekker, still lives with her mother in Massachusetts and they had two sons. The two sisters were done with stepfathers at this point. As the narrative unfolds, Daphne and Eddie continue to meet and restore their relationship as father and daughter, but now as adults. While following the present day events, Interstitial chapters jump back in time when Eddie was her stepfather and cover the events from when they were in the car accident. It is during these interludes back in time that were learn the story of Whistler and also see the deep connection between Eddie and Daphne. Events in both the past and present show how complicated interpersonal relationships are, how little we truly understand of our past, and, ultimately, how fragile life can be. Because this is a character-driven story, all the characters are portrayed as realistic, fully realized individuals with strengths and weaknesses. The narrative examines relationships, choices made in both the past and present and how many seemingly small and inconsequential moments can follow us our whole lives. It also gently shows how being recognized and understood by another person, even for a short period of time, can change your life and theirs. Whistler by Ann Patchett is a wonderful choice for everyone who enjoys thoughtful, sensitive, character-driven literary novels. Thanks to HarperCollins for providing me with an advance reader's copy via Edelweiss. My review is voluntary and expresses my honest opinion.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2026

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