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EDEL RODRIGUEZ: RECENT BOOK COVERS

June 21, 2011

Edel Rodriguez’ sure sense of color, line and composition brings intense life to the projects he takes on.  Here is a selection of some of Edel’s recent book covers, for many different publishers, on all sorts of topics.  Their common element: a brilliant cover. 

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"Dancing Home" is a new book from Simon & Schuster telling the stories of two Mexican girls, one who has come to America and the other who has stayed behind.  It has also been published in Spanish as "Nacer Bailando". Edel’s hand lettering is featured here, and on several covers below, along with his illustration.

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"Home and Exile" is the latest in Edel’s series of ten covers for books by Chinua Achebe that are being published by Random House.   This book is a collection of Achebe's essays about growing up under colonial rule in Nigeria. 

 

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"Double-Click for Trouble" is a young adult novel published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.  The story focuses on the topic of internet pornography as it relates to teenagers.  “The main characters and the reading audience are teens so this was a tricky one to pull off,” says Edel.

 

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"Leaving Glorytown," again for Farrar Straus & Giroux, is a story about a boy living in Communist Cuba in the 1960s and his emigration to America.  “I've done a lot of reportage drawings on my own trips back to Cuba and worked in that vein for this book jacket.”

 

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"Fusion," self-published by the author, will be available as an e-book via Amazon and other digital outlets. “This book was my first foray into doing covers for digital books. I treat all of the rights, usage and fees in the same manner I would a printed book.”  

 

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This is a collection of stories by authors such as H.G. Wells, Dickens, and Kipling, published in Italian by Einaudi. “They saw one of my existing drawings and wanted to use it as the book cover.”

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This is another case of existing art used as a cover.  Edel’s art was originally published in The New York Times, accompanying a review of "Christine Falls," a book about a beautiful, unidentified, female body that sits, unclaimed, at a coroner's office.  The novel is about trying to find out who she is, her identity, etc.  The book was published in Israel as well, and the publisher wanted to use Edel’s book review art on the cover for their edition.

Tags: Edel Rodriguez, Book, Booklets, Editorial, Lettering

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