The Cats by Nick Sharman
Contributed by Nick Sherman
on Apr 14th, 2022. Artwork published in
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The cover for the first New English Library paperback edition of Nick Sharman’s horror novel, The Cats, features a cat-themed LTypI use of Fat Cat. The heart-shaped counterform of the ‘A’ was either an after-market adaptation from another glyph in the typeface like the ‘E’, or it was an alternate glyph from a source I haven’t seen before. The accompanying slab-serif is Rockwell.
The design is credited to Stephen Knowlden, with the illustration credited to David McAllister.
Nick Sharman should not be confused with me, Nick Sherman :)
Photo: Nick Sherman. License: All Rights Reserved.
4 Comments on “The Cats by Nick Sharman”
The modified A makes it look a bit like a cat’s nose.
As a small side note, unrelated to the type: I was somewhat surprised to see an illustration credit for what I assumed was the composition of little paw prints on the back. But then I realized the image on the cover that I thought was a photograph was in fact a photorealistic illustration.
ISFDB has a list of books with more of McAllister’s work, including Snowman from 1979.
Coincidentally, the monster from that Snow Man book cover is definitely the same monster from a favorite movie of mine, Terror in the Midnight Sun!