Don't Buy a Book, Judge the Cover

The Onion A.V. Club sits down with Chip Kidd to discuss how he creates book covers, why he digs Batman, and the universality of Charles Schulz:

Here's the one cartoonist that pretty much everybody can agree on. Here's the cartoonist that's beloved by both Dan Clowes and my mother. I can't think of anybody else that could fit that description. It's edgy and neurotic in a timeless way, and it's heartwarming and sweet to other people—to the greater global population, I guess you would say. There's just some great common denominator. After doing this book, I don't think I encountered anybody who said to me, "Oh, I never got Peanuts," or "I wasn't into it," the sole exception being my boyfriend.

Said boyfriend, J.D. McClatchy, "was too busy with Trollope to be all that interested in Peanuts," along with running Yale's creative writing department and editing The Yale Review. So maybe he's a Doonesbury man?