Artwork, Photography & Collage Design

've always had an interest in photography, and over the past few years, my work in desktop publishing and Web design has allowed me to digitally alter some of my photos to create Web site banners and full site redesigns for the Web sites of Delirium Books, Twilight Tales, Dark Arts Books, author Brian Keene and poet Kathy Kubik, as well as for my own site (see the top of this page). See the Web site design section at the bottom of this page.

I've also created some desktop wallpaper backgrounds for computers. See the lefthand column to download.

But I've had the most fun designing book covers for and Delirium Books, Dark Arts Books, Bad Moon Books and Twilight Tales Books using both my photos and collages of the artwork of others. Thumbnails of the front covers, with larger size versions showing the front and back covers are collected below:

Book Cover Design:


Cover for Like A Chinese Tattoo Dark Arts Books, 2008 Artwork by John Everson (photo of Jade Paris by MinkyBlink) View Full Cover detail	Cover for Sins of the Sirens Dark Arts Books, 2008 Artwork by John Everson View Full Cover detail

Cover for Divagations Delirium Books, 2008 Artwork by John Everson View Full Cover detail	Cover for Suckers Delirium Books, 2008 Artwork by John Everson View Full Cover detail

Cover for Restore from Backup Bad Moon Books, 2007 Artwork by John Everson View Full Cover detail

Cover for Waiting for October Dark Arts Books, 2007 Artwork by John Everson View Full Cover detail	Cover for Candy in the Dumpster Dark Arts Books, 2007 Artwork by John Everson (photo of Jade Paris by MinkyBlink) View Full Cover detail

Cover for Pickman's Motel Delirium Books, 2007 Artwork by John Everson View Full Cover detail	Cover for Blood Wish Delirium Books, 2007 Artwork by John Everson View Full Cover detail

Cover for Failure Delirium Books, 2006 Artwork by John Everson View Full Cover detail	Cover for Imprint Delirium Books, 2006 Artwork by John Everson View Full Cover detail

Cover for Spooks! Twilight Tales Books, 2004 Artwork by John Everson View Full Cover detail	Cover for The Occult Detective Twilight Tales Books, 2005 Artwork by John Everson (photo of Robert Weinberg by Tina Jens) View Full Cover detail

Cover for The Undertow of Small Town Dreams Twilight Tales Books, 2003 Artwork by John Everson Road photo by Geri Everson View Full Cover detail	Cover for Vigilantes of Love Twilight Tales Books, 2003 Artwork by John Everson View Full Cover detail

Cover for Cthulhu and the Coeds Twilight Tales Books, 2003 B/W Artwork by Richard Chwedyk, augmented and colored by John View Full Cover detail	Cover for Freaks, Geeks & Sideshow Floozies Twilight Tales Books, 2002 Original Artwork by GAK; Reconstructed and "staged" by John View Full Cover detail

Web Banner Collages & Design

hile my Web designs are no longer "live" on the Twilight Tales and Delirium sites, you can see the banners I created for them, and a graphic depiction of how the pages looked when they were working site designs below. The most recent site design I've worked on was for Brian Keene's site, which relaunched in December 2005:

Brian Keene Web Collage:

Brian Keene's publisher, Shane Ryan Staley at Delirium Books, wanted to give Brian a Christmas present for 2005...so he asked me to design a new look for the Keene site. I used, abused and warped and melded the art from two of Brian's Delirium titles -- Earthworm Gods and City of the Dead to create the new look. The new site, www.briankeene.com, launched in December 2005.

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Delirium Books 2003-05 Web Collage:

This collage includes images from a house in the New Orleans French Quarter, a church in San Francisco and Resurrection Cemetery, near Chicago (where there are longstanding tales of the ghost of "Resurrection Mary"). It became the top anchor for the Delirium Books Web site at www.deliriumbooks.com, which I also did the 2003-05 design for. The site was redesigned by another artist in mid-2005.

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John Everson.com 2004 Web Collage:

This collage includes images from Bourbon Street in the New Orleans French Quarter and San Francisco which were used in the cover of my short story collection Vigilantes of Love, as well as tombstone from the "haunted" Bachelor's Grove cemetery on the south side of Chicago and a clip from the cover of my first book, Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions. It was the banner graphic for this site in 2003-2004.

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Twilight Tales Web Collage:

The image above is collaged from the trees in my backyard, as well as my wife's eyes. It's a portion of the image that became the Spooks! anthology book cover. The treatment above became the top anchor for the Twilight Tales Web site at www.twilighttales.com, which I also did the design for.

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Kathy Kubik Web Collage:

The image above was simply a photo taken from my hotel room while I was on vacation in Honolulu in 2003. It became the top anchor of poet Kathy Kubik's site for several years (it's gone now) at www.kathykubik.com when I was constructing a simple design for her site that could give a feeling of vastness and the eternal.

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