Tag Archive | "covers"

Time lapse of designing an SF&F book cover

Thursday, March 11, 2010

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Lauren, working on designing a cover for major SF&F imprint Orbit, has created a time lapse video of her work on a cover for Gail Carriger’s steampunk novel Blameless. I always think time lapse of a work of artistic creation is fascinating, seeing hours (or sometimes more) of work compressed into a couple of virtual [...]

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Did the comic artist boob with this image?

Thursday, January 28, 2010

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“how soon before comic book cover artists only start drawing pairs of boobs in order sell the books?” The Fanboy Wife has a couple of large, er, issues, shall we say, with the cover of some comics and their unrealistic – and sometimes innacurate to the story contained within – depictions of female anatomy (not that [...]

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National Lampoon covers archive

Monday, October 19, 2009

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Via Boing Boing comes a link to this online archive of every cover for the famed National Lampoon humour magazine from 1970 (such as the one above, from December 1970) right through to 1998, so its not just a collection showing cover art and design changing over the years, its also reflecting the different period’s [...]

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Françoise Mouly talks cover design

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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The New Yorker’s Françoise Mouly is the subject of this video, discussing cover design and illustration, working with no less than three artists for the triple cover – including Daniel Clowes – of the new issue. (via Boing Boing)

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Covers band

Monday, September 21, 2009

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(original Alpha Flight #22 cover by fan fave John Byrne, new interpretation by  Josh Holinaty) The Covered blog posts up classic comics covers then new versions drawn by different contemporary artists (some well known, others new to me, which is a neat way of seeing new artists), which I suppose makes them the covers band of [...]

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