Illustrator and designer Matt Stevens creates fanciful versions of pulp fiction book covers from films and TV shows that never originate as books. He imaginatively blends a variety of graphic styles and typography into book covers . Stevens began this project in 2023 and has now published the results in a collection dubbed Good Movies as Old Books—available in bookshops and online.

Here’s what Stevens had to say about the project in an interview with Print magazine :

My goal with the style was to try new things and create interesting combinations. Oftentimes, I was trying to do something that had not been done for a particular film. So many of these more known films have so much visual imagery already associated with them, I really focused on doing something that hadn’t been done before, or where the style created a really interesting combination of style and film. I would keep a list of films and a big Pinterest board of styles I liked or wanted to try. Often keeping those things both going at the same time, the combinations would just reveal themselves as I worked.