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Nice Review of the Cover of Was Superman a Spy?
October 29, 2009 @ 12:49 PM
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 7 Comments
My pal Michael sent me this nice review of the cover of Was Superman a Spy? (which, as always, you can purchase here).
The review said very nice things about Mickey Duzyj’s art, which was nice.
7 Comments
Wraith
October 29, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Definitely. I design a lot of book covers, and this one is great. A very, very impressive combination of good illustration and good design. (And the words inside weren’t bad either, heh.)
SwanShadow
October 29, 2009 at 2:09 pm
We need to find you a thesaurus, Brian. That’s three uses of “nice” in a two-sentence post. Four, if you count the headline.
Brian Cronin
October 29, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Hehe…I do like using that word!
MarkAndrew
October 29, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I’m glad that people are giving you good reviews.
Cover doesn’t look a DAMN thing like Chris Ware – The figure drawing, the slant angle between the figure and the buildings, the slant-y logos, even the coloring is sorta similar at best …
But, y’know, I appreciate the thought. And copying Chris Ware is probably a bad idea in general, anyway.
MarkAndrew
October 29, 2009 at 5:29 pm
OK, I do see what he’s getting at here. Little panels and slightly similar coloring. If you HAVE to compare the cover to a work of a major comic artist, Chris Ware is your guy. But I don’t think you have to.
FunkyGreenJerusalem
October 29, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Of course it’s like Chris Ware, it’s got comic panels on it, and Ware uses comic panels!
Gotta remember, non-comic readers have a much more limited vocabulary/exposure to comics and artists than we do.
(Of course, most just don’t know it yet – they think they’ve read all the one’s worth reading/need to be read Ie. Jimmy Corrigan, Maus, Shortcomings, Watchmen and Sandman – so they’ve got a more limited comics vocab than they think).
(Which still puts them heads and shoulders above anyone who puts ‘Pow! Kabam! Comics have grown up!’ in a headline).
sterg
October 29, 2009 at 9:22 pm
BTW Brian, I have been meaning to ask you, have you written a book lately?
:p