What the Cover Almost Looked Like

In case it wasn't obvious (or you're too young to know) the name of the book was inspired by the movie 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' - Kelly's idea. And in an attempt to really embrace the name, we leaned in to the Knight thing - crown, chain-mail, gloves and sword - and this was the result:  

Armored Sam

But we decided it looked ridiculous, and decided to lose the crown, and the chicken (it just covered up too much of the sword):

Armored Sam 2

But guess what? Still dumb. So we tried again, but this time got rid of the chain-mail and gloves, and voila...a cover was born. Btw, the smoke is real. I have a smoke machine we occasionally use (like in this munchies video) and I would step on the controller to smoke up the shot just before Lucas would shoot the pic.

Sam The Cooking Guy and the Holy Grill Book Cover