covered

It's a sad day for illustration aficionados as the marvelous Covered blog publishes its final pieces, citing a drop off in submissions and editor Rob Goodwin's focus on other projects. Covered has since 2009 invited artists to recreate classic comic book covers in their own distinctive styles, fueling a remix/homage trend that's become commonplace in the online comics community and helped expose y

The Covered blog is a great site that compiles modern recreations of old comic book covers, and the very best tend to offer not only updated art but an updated perspective on an old image. That's certainly the case for this cover of Superboy #6 as recreated by Guy Perez, which takes some seemingly chaste schoolgirl fantasies about Superboy to their logical -- and more sexually expressive -- end...

An excerpt from a commission by most excellent King City creator Brandon Graham, riffing on an old Fantastic Four #9 page. See the full commission (and Graham's really NSFW blog post) here.