Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow that, until we all got bored with that theme. I'd like to propose a theme of letters of the alphabet. So, for the remainder of October (only 5 days) and all of November, we post comic cover pictures associated with the letter "A". Then in December, we post covers pertaining to the letter "B". The association to the letter can be as tenuous as you want it to be. For example I could post a cover from "Adventure Comics" or "Amazing Spider Man". However Spider Man covers can also be posted when we're on the letter "S". Adventure Comic covers could also be posted when we're on the letter "L" if they depict the Legion of Super Heroes. So, no real hard, fast rules - in fact the cleverer the interpretation of the letter, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
And it's not written in stone that we have to post a cover every day. There may be some days when no cover gets posted. There's nothing wrong with this, it just demonstrates that we all have lives to lead.
If everyone's in agreement I'd like to kick this off with one of my favourite Action Comic covers, from January 1967. Curt Swan really excelled himself here.
Discussion and voting on future monthly themes takes place on the "Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day" thread. Click here to view the thread.
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We could fill more days than we'd like with covers featuring a certain twentieth-century political figure:
Speaking of "third party candidates"...
His slogan was: "A Demon for the White House?" Why Not? We've Had Worse!"
Ain't that the truth?
We're on holiday on the beautiful island of Madeira this week, and, apropos of this month's theme, the island seems to have a particular affinity with a certain British Prime Minister who governed us through WW2. It appears that he spent many happy days here, following retirement, drawing and painting. There is a beautiful hotel here which bears his name, but even more appropriately, a wonderful statue of him painting which practically begs for the visitor to sit next to him. How could I refuse!
And, to follow thtat, here's Emporer Hirohito.
I had this lined up as my first transition cover but life had other ideas. So I've been unable to post for a few weeks, nothing too serious just tedious time consuming stuff.
It still works , a king, two if you count Kirby and eleven characters.
Classics Illustrated #142. The life story of Abraham Lincoln.
This is another "Prez" cover if you haven't read it.
"Written by" Presidents #2, 3, & 4
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