I'm really excited about the posters that Bob Cicero made for Coffin Point. I make my living teaching Latin and so I couldn't resist the opportunity to work with a family business named Cicero. Their website begins: "In 1929, Globe Poster was founded during a card game in Philadelphia." It is a hell of a story. Then they made many of the great rock and roll posters around Baltimore for Parliament (I can still remember accidently happening upon Funkadelic playing a block from my house in Baltimore and being overcome by joy) up to John Spencer's Blues Explosion.
The only way I really know how to go about "promoting" a book comes from skateboarders and rock bands. If I can help give one of the cool old poster companies make some money and I can get a work of art that creates an aesthetic vision surrounding the book, there only one answer: Hell yeah!
I like bands who use their music, album covers, and everything to create a world-view. Why have a cover if it is disconnected from the music or the book. In other words, if you're going to do something, you've got to make it look cool. The Ciceros make super cool posters. Check out their others here: http://www.globeposter.com/showposters.html
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