BestCoversEver

A great comic book cover has a lot of work to do. It's both an advertisement and a work of art; both a statement and an invitation. Sometimes they convey character, sometimes mood, sometimes moment. Sometimes they pastiche the classics or pay tribute to the past; sometimes they strive to show us something entirely new...

The peculiar truth about comic book covers is that they're on comics, but they're not comics. Covers are generally single images, not sequential, which makes them a separate art form, one that owes as much to poster ads and book design as it does to the comic panel or page...