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Book Jacket - Troy Fiss

For my book jacket I chose the graphic novel V for Vendetta, which is one of my all time favorite books, and it has been so long since I've read it I thought I was due another go. For my book jacket what I really wanted to accomplish was to do something new to represent V and his/her world. It's so easy to have a black cover with a white Fawkes mask and a V somewhere, and that works, but I wanted to give it a different spin. So I decided to represent chiefly the (wishing I could do italics) other characters in the novel, with V making a only a fleeting appearance. I wanted as little text on the jacket as possible, I know they have an economic necessity in terms of pulling in readers, but so often they ruin the ending, at least for experienced readers, so I really wanted to avoid that. There is hardly any text on the back at all, and I tried to be as mysterious as possible on the inside folds.

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