Posted by Amanda Marcotte February 27, 2008 in Uncategorized, Asides, Pandagon!, Books
Word has it (from Lauren) that reviews of my book are beginning to trickle out. It comes out in April, y’all, and I’m currently putting together a schedule of book stores to do readings at. I will keep you updated on these.
In the meantime, here is the cover:
If you click the cover, you can see the Amazon page and pre-order it.
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“It comes out in April, y’all…”
Congratulations!…
Rocking cover, Amanda. The book is in my shopping cart…
MAZEL FREAKIN’ TOV!!!
Well, shoot! I liked the old gorilla cover!
Does your favorite sexist pig troll get an autographed copy?
But the boobs!! So huge!! That can’t possibly be ironicz0rs!!1!!eleventy!!1
Well, that young woman is awfully scantily clad. Why does she have to be blonde and buxom? And so violent? We should not be in the business of celebrating violence. Also, I am very concerned about the representation of the crocodile. Are you suggesting that all anti-feminists are lizard brains?
All of which is to say, mazel tov and kudos too. May this book help millions of women to survive politically inhospitable environments — and here’s to savvy design people who knew just what to do with the jungle motif.
I’m very disappointed Amanda. Don’t you realize the stereotype that crocodiles have historically represented within the…
Oh i can’t do it with a straight face. Congrats!
Yay! I’m glad the publishing company was willing to change the old cover. This one is pretty amusing.
Excellent cover! You are going to have a lot of fun with this book. Sadly, one can already predict the array of meatheads who will try to take a shot at you, and be handed their guts for garters.
Or… not that sadly. There are certain bloodsports I like Marcotte vs. the Feebs being one of them.
Congrats!
As a person who found the original gorilla cover racist, I’m glad you changed it. Thank you for listening.
As a person who found the original gorilla cover racist,
And people have no problems with an Amazon woman with a knife attacking a hapless endangered phallic symbol?
Not to mention the censorship implied as she forcibly stifles the phallic symbol’s right to speak.
Help, help - we’re being oppressed.
Who is the cover artist?
I can’t wait for the Amazon reviews! They’ll probably be more fun than the book. Maybe your boyfriend’s friend’s mom from high school who knew you were a bitch at the prom will show up.
That woman’s breasts are terrifying. In what context was that image produced in the first place, anyway?
w00t! You need to come and read/sign at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh - e-mailme if you need a contact.
Congrats, Amanda, I am also glad that you changed the cover and genuinely like the new one better.
But to the people who are mocking those who had genuine concerns? Well, I honestly don’t really expect better at this point, seeing as how some seem completely unable to consider the concerns of feminists of color as seriously as their own. But I really do wish that I could. I’m really disappointed that by the 15th comment, there are three of these types of remarks. But again, not surprised.
No, I’m not going to engage in a debate, and to avoid the temptation I’m not even going to come back. But it needed to be said. And I hope that most here would agree with that. I also hope that we can all drop it and act like adults.
Again, Amanda, congratulations and I look forward to reading it.
Yay! Congratulations!
Woot! Come to Chattanooga!
Wow, an homage to ’40s headlight comics? How backfiringly retro!
But to the people who are mocking those who had genuine concerns?
Cara, I’m not mocking the problem you had with the previous cover. I’m mocking the probable reaction of the wingnuts to this cover. Big difference.
*sheesh*
I was open to criticism. I ran this cover by trusted folks who could smell out racism I was unaware of, and got the pass. I’m happy with it. And it’s funny! I think. Worth buying.
For the record; i was mocking those who had genuine concerns about the previous cover.
Yaay, Amanda! Can’t wait to get my copy. And you have to come to NC, but you have tons of fans in Chapel Hill and Durham, too, so don’t just listen to Coturnix.
If I can help set something up or you need a place to crash en route, let me know! xo
For the record; i was mocking those who had genuine concerns about the previous cover.
yeah, but you also have a record of being kind of a dick.
[/jovial]
Given the longstanding association of alligators and popped-collar preppies, I think reasonable people would agree that this is an anti-preppie image that encourages mockery with overtones of violence, which is…
Cathartic. And gratifying.
you should do a reading at one of the tattered covers in denver, methinks.
Congrats!
I love the new cover!
She has a very nice necklace. Of teeth.
For the record: I was saying here’s to savvy design people who knew just what to do with the jungle motif.
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but the crocodile is nakeeed!
so what book is this? This sounds like one of those nature survivalist book. I love comic.
arse poetica, I second! Signing at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham, maybe?
I wasn’t mocking people who had concerns before, but I am mocking anyone who snitfits over this one. And there will be some.
I was on Amanda’s side regarding the original cover, I felt that there were potentially racist overtones, but that Amanda certainly was not channeling them and was entitled to her personal reading of the image.
It’s a credit to her empathy for others that she changed it.
But are we really going to have a snarkfest here mocking those who were legitimately offended by the original cover? Shame.
And congratulations Amanda. I love this cover. I love the fierce woman doing with a spear what the man needs a gun to do.
Wait a minute. What the hell is he doing there? And what is that figure in the background behind the woman’s left hip? An island with trees? A boat? A BOAT?
OK Amanda, ‘fess up. Your publisher got pissed at your oversensitivity to the first cover and found a stock photo with lapsed copyright. Do you know who drew this cover and the last one? Inquiring minds want to know.
This new cover is excellent. Congrats on your book!
The cover and the inside artwork is all from a comic book from the 50s called “Lorna Jungle Girl”.
Typo in the book description:
her middle finger struck straight up in the air
Congrats, Amanda. |=)
Congratulations, it looks great! I love your blog and your intellectual rigor when pointing out the absurdity of the patriarchal imagination.
Come to Lexington, KY–we have a great independent bookstore, Joseph-Beth. There’s also David-Kidd in Nashville (Gore did a signing there, swoon).
Peace
I agree with Cara, and it’s fine to clarify what you meant by your comments, but given that you know the history of the cover issue, it should be obvious that your comments could be interpreted as mocking those who had a problem with the earlier version. Whether you meant to or not is only half the issue. The actual impact of your words on others is the other half.
If you’re contributing to certain commenters/bloggers not feeling welcome here with your snarky comments, you should own that. And if you want them to feel welcome here, you should apologize. For the effect of your words, not the intention behind them.
Ooh! I saw that in our Baker and Taylor database about a month ago when I pre-ordered it for my library. Love the cover!
Emily, if “certain commenters/bloggers” need plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints and twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one before they can understand a piece of obvious humour, that’s their problem.
The cover and the inside artwork is all from a comic book from the 50s called “Lorna Jungle Girl”.
Public domain, or do you have permission to reproduce? I can see another storm in a teacup showing up.
Emily, on consideration, you have a point. My comment could have been construed as mocking the people concerned with the previous cover. I will clarify that that was not my intention; this is not an apology.
I note that among the sponsored links on the Amazon page are ads for first-aid kits…
*cough*westernmassachusetts*cough*
Oh believe me, PR, the publisher is not stupid on this.
Congrats, Amanda!!!
(Come to Atlanta!)
You know would be cool? A list of all the feminist bloggers who’ve written books. I’m sure there’s more than I can remember, and I’d bet more people would support you all if they actually knew who had published and how many books were out there.
Congratulations! I hope your book tour brings you to the Twin Cities — I’m so there!
Will she show how to kill crocodile in her book tour?
I’ll fly out … maybe 200 miles radius. 250 if it’s really big crocodile. (just kidding, too broke to travel. But. I’ll give prop and make noise or something)
“*cough*westernmassachusetts*cough*”
*wheezeyouknowyouwanttocometonorthamptonwheeze*
I like that there’s a guy in the background fighting the crocodiles with her. I’m a big fan of being in the battle together.
I’d like to add my appreciation for the change of cover and wish Amanda good luck with the book.
I like the big boobs, but next time I wanna draw your cover! XD
Oh, by the way, for some context, a lot of these Jungle Girls and strong female heroes originate from WWII, when a lot of artists got drafted and replaced by women writers and cartoonists.
Oh believe me, PR, the publisher is not stupid on this.
If you show up at the book signings in a leopard-skin bikini, you’ll get stoned - you know that, right?
Yeah, but i’ve made peace with it.
The Phoenician wrote:
Well, since the cover has the heroine in a maillot, I guess she’s safe!
Maybe the cover is meant to tell us that the inhospitable environment is Florida; judging by the wide snout, that’s an alligator, not a crocodile.
As the bard said: Everybody must get stoned.
Shout out for a book signing in rural Queensland!
*crickets chirping*
*tumbleweed*
Oh well.
I fully support the idea of a stop in western Massachusetts, assuming it is made en route to central Massachusetts, preferably somewhere in the middle of Worcester and therefore within walking or bus distance of me. Show up early enough on Tuesday or Thursday and we’ll drag you out to a trivia game afterwards.
Phoenician in Roman Times said:
“Emily, if “certain commenters/bloggers” need plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints and twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one before they can understand a piece of obvious humour, that’s their problem.”
Gee, what does that remind me of?
“Can’t you feminists take a joke?”
I truly appreciate you taking the concerns on the previous thread into consideration. I am now officially excited to go and preorder this book!
Congrats Amanda.
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This one is a Marvel comic from 1954. The artist is Russ Heath, famous for “Sgt.Rock”, “Little Annie Fanny” and a bunch of National Lampoon parodies. As well as those Roman soldiers ads in the comics in the 60’s. He’s 81 and still works in comics occassionally.
Three stories in the book were drawn by Werner Roth who died in 1973; the other by George Tuska who’s alive and well and drawing in Florida.
“Oh, by the way, for some context, a lot of these Jungle Girls and strong female heroes originate from WWII, when a lot of artists got drafted and replaced by women writers and cartoonists.”
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This one is a Marvel comic from 1954. The artist is Russ Heath, famous for “Sgt.Rock”, “Little Annie Fanny” and a bunch of National Lampoon parodies. As well as those Roman soldiers ads in the comics in the 60’s. He’s 81 and still works in comics occassionally.
Three stories in the book were drawn by Werner Roth who died in 1973; the other by George Tuska who’s alive and well and drawing in Florida.