Tag: By Its Cover
By Its Cover (Week Of 06.11.14): Design Vs. Illustration
For anyone who was still curious, here's the answer to which covers were used in the By Its Cover title. I tried to include several different genres and eras.
My focus on design each week has...
By Its Cover (Week Of 5.28.14): Requests & Tangents
A few people have asked if I take requests. I think I'm up for the challenge. Let me know if there are any older covers you'd really like to see analyzed/discussed, or any recent...
By Its Cover (Week Of 05.21.14): Warm & Cool
One of the toughest things about picking covers each week is how many fantastic illustrations I have to leave out because the text laid over it just didn't serve it well. I make a...
By Its Cover (Week Of 5.14.14): Q&A
Being that it's the column's one month anniversary, I thought I'd do some reader questions. Except I don't have any reader questions, so instead I'm going to ask you the questions.
1) What's your favorite part...
By Its Cover (Week Of 05.07.14): Rethinking The Traditional Trade Dress
Last week I asked: "why does anyone still use this layout at all?"
My question was answered via a link in the comments to a previous installment of Brian Hibb's Tilting At Windmills. The short version...
By Its Cover (Week Of 04.30.14): Thoughts On The Traditional Trade Dress
If you've been reading comics for more than a few years, you're probably familiar with the traditional comics trade dress layout: publication information at upper left, maybe a character image or some floating heads,...
By Its Cover (Week Of 04.23.14): Let’s Talk Comic Cover Design
They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but that's never stopped us. We can't help it. If we could, publishers wouldn't be hiring the industry's top names to illustrate them. Covers are...
