Chip Kidd

There were some great, uh, acceptance, uh, speeches.

Just, uh, Chip Kidd had the entire-

Chip Kidd, yes

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We definitely do.

They commissioned alternate covers by two very renowned artists in the modern comic and publishing world, Tim Bradstreet and Chip Kidd.

Right.

And examining the specific aesthetics of these two artists reveals everything about how Johnny Cash's legacy is digested today.

It is an aesthetic deeply rooted in violence, maturity, and moral ambiguity.

Yes, gritty, sweaty realism.

And then you have Chip Kidd, who is basically a god of high concept literary design.

He really is.

So the, the kind of, for people who are listening, the copy that Sam had was, is the classic, this is the movie, you know? Like, here's the poster.

It's like the Chip Kidd logo, you know, in what became the movie logo.

And then...

The version that I had in high school that I had been sharing on social media is this like all white version with the Chip Kid logo.

different look.

I have the beautifully designed by Chip Kidd collected edition.

And there's a quote from Tony Millionaire on the inside cover that says, this looks like it was done by a guy with a pen and his girlfriend with an iMac.

And for all these years, not entirely sure if that's a compliment or not.

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yeah just to fill in the holes he was daxing my dna to fill in the gaps The other book that came out was Chip Kidd's Avengers book.

So we got two Avengers books.

The Chip Kidd of it all.

I'm like,

what? Chip Kidd loves comics.

I know, but it's crazy.

I'm like, you're a graphic designer extraordinaire.

Yeah.

I, uh, like, where did you stand on the, the Chip Kidd Michael Chabon book last year?

year?Oh, I hated it.

I also-

We talk about Patrick Radden Keefe more than we talk about Lawrence Wright, but taking specific people and following through the, through this thing.

An iconic cover by Chip Kidd.

Um, at the same time, 488 pages.

Um, you know, if, the, the central character, of course, is Osama Bin Laden, and I found it hard to even look this square in the face at the time.