I also owe them a debt for indulging me with publishing my article about stories of Latin album cover art in issue 12 they very generously put in 80 covers and also featured some photos of the designers, something which my publisher was not interesed in. Debating any similarities really is a moot point hardly worth talking about anyway so I do not even want to bring it up what I will say is who cares about where "Cover Story" got it great looks from the folks at waxpo came up with it, worked hard on it, and in the end it is a thing of beauty. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so if waxpo was inspired by some aspects of "Cocinando" then I am happy that the book shares a few similarities with my own however, they were not really imitating my book, I'm not so egotistical to think that. The look, feel, and design of the book is pleasingly simple, and reminded me of my own book (check out the label logos on red – mine were on yellow, but very similar). It's like having your own wild record collection available at the flip of a page.
Some amazed me some appalled me, some made me laugh, some were moving - the good, the bad, the ugly, the full spectrum. To that end, there are some cool essays at the front, though much is left up to the imagination, which is as it should be. When I opened this book and started flipping through I got very excited – I saw some covers I knew and loved, but there were many, many more that were completely unknown to me – I could only wonder about their stories. The new book “Cover Story” from the excellent Wax Poetics magazine out of Bklyn is a lot of fun – there is something liberating about doing a cover book that throws such a wide-ranging net over the esoteric world of album cover art connoisseurship - boundaries are made to be broken and re-configured. Cover Story - 2007 Wax Poetics Publishing
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