americatown

Anatomy of a Cover: Archaia’s 'Americatown' #1 by Mike Choi
Anatomy of a Cover: Archaia’s 'Americatown' #1 by Mike Choi
Anatomy of a Cover: Archaia’s 'Americatown' #1 by Mike Choi
Have you ever wondered how an artist settles on the right image to place on the cover of a comic? Which elements to include, what's important, and how to show it? Americatown is a new Archaia series from The Americans screenwriter Bradford Winters, Borgias screenwriter Larry Cohen, and newcomer artist Daniel Irizarri, which tells the story of Americans fleeing a collapsed economy to build new lives in a Buenos Aires slum. It's a story about family, politics, and poverty, and the challenge of devising a single image to capture the mood and intent of that tale fell on cover artist Mike Choi. In this feature, Choi reveals his process in putting that cover together.