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The Graveyard Book in Japan

I picked up the American edition of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book a couple of weeks ago, at a Q&A session in Naperville, Il.  Honestly, I haven't been able to get through too many of Gaiman's novels.  American Gods is a fantastic book but I've struggled a bit with his other novels.  But after hearing him read passages of Stardust and Anansi Boys there, I need to dig out those books and reread them.

Catching up on my RSS feeds today, I found this blog post from Gaiman that has just a lovely piece of artwork in it:

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My initial reaction of it was that the design and color of it is just so much more dramatic than the American edition.

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Then I noticed the lovely use of negative space used in both covers, the way that the the face just appears out of nowhere.  I still kind of prefer the Japanese edition because of the flow and design of the whole cover, the way it just leads your eye diagonally over the whole image, like watching liquid being poured out of a container.