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Some cool artwork, but not my type of art :)
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Good compilation, but I think you forgot to include some of the best like Simon Bysley’s “Slaine”, Barry Windsor Smith’s “Weapon X”, and a very long list of great covers.

I agree with that… some Conan covers, please!!!

no way, James Jean’s not in the list???

Where are the Fables covers?! You could pick one at random and it would be better than 90% of these. They’re really that good. Link http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/fables

While you included the Watchmen cover of issue 4, I can’t help but think that the cover of the compilation, the huge smiley with the drop of blood on it, would stand out even more. Also, V for Vendetta or one of the From Hell covers would have been cool, too.

Sorry, don’t like this kind of comic. You know Lucky Luke? He is one cool guy.

No Umbrella Academy?

Some great stuff on this list, just a lot of crap too. Angel, Echo, Jonah Hex, I don’t think so…

Some nice covers, there, but what a shame that there doesn’t seem to be any common thread or theme to this collection! Some context would have been a great addition worthy of Smashing Magazine… I’d rather see a smaller number of covers that are well assembled than such a plethora of strongly varying material.

I would think that the “100 Bullets” covers of Dave Johnson merit an entire post by themselves, for example, and the same can be said about James Jean’s work on “Fables”. And that’s just two comic book series that are very recent examples. By zooming in even slightly on a theme, series, or concept, we’d get a much better view of the different ways artists can use the space of one page to convey a story – - and sell it at the same time.

Nice to see a spotlight on comics and comic art. Here’s hoping for a follow-up!

Great selection.
A lot of comics too many “BD”, though.
What about covers of the serie called “Les cités obscures” (http://recherche.fnac.com/s233/Les-Cites-Obscures) or even the cover of “La marque Jaune” (http://multimedia.fnac.com/multimedia/images_produits/ZoomPE/2/0/1/9782870970102.jpg) ?

Not sure if this is SM worthy… not a whole lot of inspiration for me personally.

One name. Bill Sienkiewicz.

I love all of these covers but I think you could have included a Dark Tower cover (Marvel), some of those, in my opinion, are amazing.

Obvious ones not here for me are “V for Vendetta” (with “him” on the wall, cape out) and “The Dark Night Returns”.

What? No Jim Lee? I think you missed both the covers of X-Men #1 and Wildcats #1, both are beyond awesome!

Thanks for the suggestions and comments. Some of the original covers included a couple mentioned, but due to computer errors. the first list was lost.

I would love to do a follow up later on with some of these suggestions. Again, so really great links included in the comments. I highly recommend checking them out.

As for the critique on the Angel comic, I’m sorry, but that’s such a realistic rendering that looks so much like the actors I had to include. Though that could further be the fanboy in me :p.

I feel ashamed knowing that I have read all of the above comics.

Why hello there Marvel fanboy!

Most of this is complete garbage in the comic book industry. Any showcase of “brilliant” comic book cover art that does not include James Jean, Alex Ross, Frank Miller- the list goes on and on- is just crap.

Not to mention that you could include some more variety- European comic books (Sky Doll, come on!), Japanese comic books, independent artists… give us something truly inspiring! Not just the overly corporate, soul-sucking fan-pandering teenage boy wankfest crap that Marvel and DC spits out every month in Wolverine, Spider-man, The Avengers, and X-Men.

Also, no Fables.

and Maus.

and Sandman.

and Civil War.

and maybe some Batman:Hush.

awesome list. I would also add radical comics, they are a fairly new comic book company, but i think their work is amazing. http://www.radicalcomics.com

Nice list, but I think you should include Sandman and From Hell.

I have always loved the cover work on “the Maxx”

and PITT

death of superman #75? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Superman

The first one has a striking similarity to Frazetta’s Death Dealer. Coincidence?

Apart from this, I find the collection rather generic and arbitrary. I’d say, you will find 50 equally well done covers in each issue of Previews. All in all good art, but nothing outstanding in my humble opinion. Turner (RIP) did way better covers than the one you listed, Finch as well and you didnt even bother to include Miller and many other well established artists. Nonetheless, an enjoyable list.

Oh God… This is a rather horrible list. Sorry, but this has to be one of the biggest lows of SM since its beginning.

First, these are mostly syndicated comics, second, they are stuck in the late 80s, early 90s stylewise, and they never seem to show any noteworthy progress stylewise as a whole, but just in small pockets.

For some nice, clean covers, look up Guy Delile’s work, and I am sure that if you spend 5 more minutes in a comics store you will find much better comic covers than these if you have a sense of style, something I doubt the author has judging by the selection of covers.

U failed to mention Bill Sienkiewicz, Frank Miller, Moebius, Ted mcKeever and Mike Mignola!

Nice covers. Only the Killing Joke stands out. The X-men/Kitty Pryde/Colossus cover reminds me of another… As the others pointed out, Miller, Ross, McKeever and Sienkiewicz are missing.
Also missing are George Perez, Neal Adams and Jim Steranko.
How could you forget Jack Kirby?

As mentioned by the others, James Jean, Todd MacFarlane, Alex Ross, Frank Miller, Tim Sale and Jim Lee should all have been represented… they’ve produced some pretty great covers over the years.

Rai #0 and Incredible Hulk #377 should have DEFINITELY been on this list, check out another good Top Covers list here: http://www.coverbrowser.com/top/cool

Agree. Missing some big names here: Jim Lee, Alex Ross, and I would add the late Michael Turner – not my favorite artist, but definitely a distinct style and very well-known for his covers.

Ditto Jae lee. His cover for Dark Tower #1 is fantastic.

Segura Inc.’s covers for Vertigo’s The Filth are interesting because they take a more purely design-based approach to doing covers. Maybe worth checking out.

You should also check out the covers of the XIII, Blueberry or Largo Winch albums (iirc all published by Dargaud).

Hi folks,
please have a look at this gallery showing mainly COVERS (and pages). Enjoy.

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=33681

This really just looks like a random assemblage of covers. These covers aren’t a better collection than you would get looking at any shelf in a comic shop. No Sandman covers?

“Kabuki” has some absolutely beautiful artwork. Actually the whole comic is a work of art.

Very exelent, thank you with your album. I hope more picture for my student to open idea when they learn drawing and coloring their art work.

THE. DARK. NIGHT. RETURNS.

No Berni Wrightson. No Richard Corben. No Frank Frazetta. No Jack Davis. No Sanjulian. No Esteban Maroto. No Boris Vallejo. Meh.
Oh, right. The first one’s a Frazetta ripoff. But you probably didn’t know that. Kids these days.

As a comic book and manga reader/fan, I’m very dissapointed. 90% of these covers are generic and blah. Sorry. Like Garotadpi said: “…Try again!”

As both a comic book fan and a designer I can see how some of those covers were chosen, some not so much… I LOVE that Kitty Pride and Colossus cover… classic.

If you’re including older covers my vote would be for Elfquest #16 (art by Wendy Pini) which, as an antidote to all this death and mayhem, is a beautifully moving character study. You can look it up on the elfquest.com website.

Two biggest misses IMO – Glenn Fabry (Preacher) and Dave McKean (Sandman).

I’m particularly a fan of that Killing Joke cover. Probably my favorite of all time.