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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Added a Superman Christmas cover just because I felt like it.
In this month of snowmen, I can't go any further without mentioning Raymond Briggs and "The Snowman". Briggs is Britain's second most famous comic book author (second only to Alan Moore). In 1978 he wrote "The Snowman", a children's tale. The book is entirely wordless, and illustrated with only Briggs' coloured pencils. He summed up the book in an interview "I create what seems natural and inevitable. The snowman melts, my parents died, animals die, flowers die. Everything does. There's nothing particularly gloomy about it. It's a fact of life."
The book was adapted for TV in 1982 as a half-hour animated cartoon and was shown on the new nascent channel Channel 4, on the day after Christmas, with a dignified introduction by none other than Mr David Bowie. The cartoon has won numerous awards and is re-shown on the same channel every Xmas.
Briggs followed this up with "When The Wind Blows" a sombre look at the lives of Jim and Hilda Bloggs, closely based on his parents. The book confronted the trusting, optimistic Bloggs couple with the ultimate horror of nuclear war, and was praised in Parliament for its timeliness and originality. The topic was inspired after Briggs watched a chilling BBC TV documentary on nuclear contingency planning. It is written and illustrated by Briggs and is truly a work of genius.
I have a copy of both books, each signed by the author, and they truly are works of art.
Goosebumps on so many levels!
Running late tonight, but here's my cover for the day, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Classics Illustrated #12
I don't have any experience with ALL CAPS Comics. This one is called SNOWMAN, but those people do not look dressed for winter.
By the way, it's a full moon tonight.
Little Jack Frost and friends
Weather Service is predicting not one but TWO bad storms this week, so here's an approiate cover, courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
The last Felix cover that I have
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