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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM-Rocco" data-source="post: 3602269" data-attributes="member: 14451">IMO, you did. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Hi, nice of you to join in. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I see your point, and as you have first hand knowledge, perhaps I have to conceed that to you, but when you posted that editorial in Dragon claiming that you had to have all that on the cover, it really pissed me off.  I think, personally, that you, as editor, were under pressure to get new readers every month.I could be wrong, again I don't have hard numbers in front of me like you do or did, but back in the hey day, say around issue 100, you only had to print three small lines in the upper right hand corner of the magazine to get people to know what is inside, leaving most of the cover for the art.  Yes, I know you shouldn't judge a magazine by its cover, but people do and if the art is good, we don't want to see large blocky text covering it.So, since you have been in the business for years and know more than I, are you saying that a smaller set of coverlines didn't or won't work?Answer this then, why does it have to take up most of the cover?  I work in graphic design and I know more and bigger is not always better.  Maybe three small lines of descriptive text in the upper right hand corner wasn't enough in your opinion/knowledge, to get across what the magazine is about, but do you honestly think the copy on the front of the covers needed to be so overwhelming.Super graphics are fine on occasion, just like tons of large bold print can be a great way to comunicate a special event, but IMO it really was a shame that you (and when I say you I mean you and/or what/whoever made cover choices) did it on every issue.I would rather let the art speak for itself with smaller lines of text explaining what is inside.  Or, they always come, now days, with a clear protective bag, even in the stores, why didn't you just print the really large bold coverlines on that and leave the art a lone?  Once they buy the magazine, they don't need to know what is inside, they have already bought it?</blockquote>

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