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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I am going to deviate from this month's theme to post one for the solstice.
In honor of today...
Sweaterweather is about a turtle, a rabbit, and other creatures on a snowy journey. It contains short comics and lots of other delightful things, such as paper dolls, postcards, and stamps. It came out in 2003 and if you have a copy, it's worth in excess of $50.
Up to date but running late, so here's my cover for today courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
Jimmy Olsen #12
My last abominable snowman of the month really luvs preventative maintenance.
Note that this PS Magazine cover is by Murphy Anderson. I picked up a couple of these in 1969 when Will Eisner was still doing them (not just covers) for the Army.
My dad had a couple of Eisner ones lying around. I don't know what happened to them.
This was SO late in being published that I almost thought it wasn't coming out!
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