BOOK UPDATE: Here’s the cover of the Savage Chickens book, Savage Chickens: A Survival Kit for Life in the Coop, which will be published by Perigee Books in March 2011!
Creating the cover was a lot of fun for me. I worked with the awesome Nellys Li, a senior designer from Penguin USA’s Putnam Art Department in NYC. We came up with a bunch of ideas. I mailed Nellys some sketches on sticky notes and she took photos of them in office settings, but that didn’t quite look right so we tried some hand-drawn covers instead. Along the way, we got valuable input from my editor, the publisher, and the sales team. Nellys combined elements from a couple of my drawings to create the final cover above.
Here are a couple of black-and-white sketches of other cover ideas that we considered:
Here’s more information about the book. And you can get book updates and a daily chicken by email — just sign up for my mailing list.
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Preorder my new book!
Hooray! I’m excited about this book.
I love the cover. Now to get a decent job so I can purchase multiple copies of the book…
Woo hoo!!
Can’t wait! 😀
great! I like the one with little squares. good to see the iMug making an appearance.
Gonna pre-order today!
: )
Great, am looking forward to this!
Already found it on amazon, and put it on my wishlist, so I won’t forget 😉
Very happy for you. Glad that the chickens are making it big 🙂 You deserve 3 cheers for making my morning every day! Hooray Hooray Hooray
Some more details???
Where can i preorder from??
How many pages???
Will it include all the cartoons ever posted??
Price???
btw, if you want me to make you a flash game about savage chickens, i would be willing to do it for free, just email me 😀
Oh man. I can’t wait. I hope it comes out in the exact middle of March. That way it can be a great birthday gift!! (Hint, hint, to anyone who knows me! :-))
Hi Doug,
Just wanted to say that I think your work is brilliant and I am so pleased to hear that you are getting a book deal. I will definately be getting copies for me and all my friends. Wishing you all the best of luck and success, Jo Anne
I love the site and read your daily strip religiously. However I have to say I’m slightly disappointed with the proposed book cover. It looks too Dilbert-esque. Perhaps it’s the publisher’s desire to attract the right crowd but personally I consider Savage Chicken to be far more imaginative than Dilbert.
Prod is on the cover! YAY!!! I’m thrilled that you’re getting a book deal. This is a fabulous cartoon, and I really hope the book takes off.
Thanks everybody! It’s really great to hear that you’re all excited about the book!
@Anuj – thanks for the offer – and you can find out more about the book here on the Book page and at your favourite bookstore (here it is on Amazon)
@Al – glad to hear you’re enjoying the cartoons! I should’ve mentioned that this book focuses on work-related cartoons, so that might be where the Dilbert comparison comes from. I hope to tackle different themes in future books, such as Psychology and Movies and more!
@Ann S.: Thanks Ann! And yes, PROD3000 shows up quite a bit in the book!
This will be on my birthday list as well!
The cover is great, but I do prefer the B&W with multiple stickies of the day to day grind… perhaps in re-print?
Congratulations Doug!! I love your site and read it everyday. I hope you sell a truckload! Good luck!
I already pre-ordered it when you told us about the book last time. Any chance for an autographed one? I pre-ordered at amazon.com, but I could still cancel it, if there’s a chance for a hand-signed version somehow.
Ilike the second cover. Looks like my life these days. Can’t wait till it comes out.
je vous lis tous les jours depuis la france, c’est un super cartoon fin et divertissant…
très bon sens de l’humour
vivement le livre…
longue vie aux chickens
great job !
Is there a way to get it on Argentina?.
I love you man 😀