A weekly feature on my blog where I post up cover images that fit a weekly theme - art styles, artists, colour schemes, etc. In essence, this is a meme that celebrates book covers as pieces of art. Covers link to larger images and titles to goodreads summaries.

This week's theme: Sam Weber (cover artist)
artist website
With the issues of underrepresented/absent PoC covers being voiced as of late, I thought that I could bring attention to an artist who does an amazing job with some PoC covers (as well as non-PoC ones).

1) House of Mystery (graphic novels) Vol.1: Room and Boredom by Matthew Sturges, Bill Willingham	2) Breaking the Wall (novels) #1 Thirteen Orphans #2 Nine Gates by Jane Lindskold
3) individual novels The Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee The Thin Executioner by Darren Shan Scary (Russian) Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Prospero Lost by L. Jagi Lamplighter

What first alerted me to this artist's works were the covers for the Breaking the Wall series (the art for the third book Five Odd Honors can be found on the artist's site and is absolutely gorgeous). There aren't many covers I've seen that focus on Asian characters, so these immediately drew me in with their slightly surreal and soft tones. Then, I saw a post on the cover for The Thin Executioner that mentioned this artist by name, whom to my surprise is also the cover artist for The Gaslight Dogs. If you go to the artist's website, you can also see illustrations done for that amazing and horrible book Lord of the Flies, which I found redeems the book by proxy. Slightly. I'm quite intrigued by some of the other books in the artist's gallery as well, and will definitely check out any new projects the artist illustrates.