Cover Art
| Related terms: | Fanart |
| See also: | zine art, fanfic cover, Fannish Bookcovers |
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Cover art is a term that describes a wide variety of fanart and graphics, usually created either for other fanworks or for non-fannish published works. Sometimes fans even create cover art for fan- or pro-works that don't actually exist. The general, nonfannish definition of cover art is somewhat narrower: "the illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book (often on a dust jacket), magazine, comic book, video game (box art), DVD, CD, videotape, or music album."[1]
Fans can make cover art for both print and digital fanworks, including fanworks that don't have "covers," such as
- covers for albums of filk or other audio collections
- covers for fanmixes and other digital audio
- podfic covers for podbooks
- zine covers for print zines
- fanfic covers for online stories
The cover artist may or may not have also created the fanwork that the cover art was intended for.
Cover Art for Professional Works
- Fannish Bookcovers
- more
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Album Covers
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Zine Covers
Fanfic Covers
Although fans do create cover art for zines that consist of a single story or novel, they can also create digital "cover art" for stories that were born digital.
Podfic Covers
Podfic is often played on mp3 players, which can display album art if an image is attached to the audio files. Thus, fans make cover art for podfic, especially for the podbook (m4b) format. Many podficcers create their own cover art, but often another fan may provide the art.
External Links and Further Reading
- cover art on the Archive of Our Own
- fans discuss creating e-reader covers for Pros zine and online fic (2014), see Fun with finger-painting?, Archived version