Disappearing-ink cover

McSweeney's #35 features a disappearing-ink cover by Jordan Crane. It's $13 at Amazon.

Here's Jordan's cover for Uptight #3:



You can read some of the interior pages here.

Chart Wars (and more)

Lots of great pulp covers in this Flickr gallery. You can buy Chart Wars at Amazon.

LeBron abandoning Cleveland desktop wallpaper

I took the liberty of turning Emmet Smith's and Michael Tribble's brilliant LeBron cover for The Plain Dealer into a desktop wallpaper:



Via.

*Buy LeBron James toys at eBay.

Best magazine covers 2009

A model says "It Must Be Somebody's Fault" for W and Madoff as the Joker for New York - - two of Time's picks for best magazine covers 2009. Yes, the list is spread across ten pages with pop-up ads.

Relatedly, here's a photo of the Joker interfering with a very serious protest:



Thanks, Robert.

*Previously: Best magazine covers 2008.

*Buy 100 Years of Magazine Covers at Amazon.

Book covers for web services

Youtube, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Last.Fm, Flickr, Ffffound, and Facebook - - some of the web services given cover therapy by Stéphane Massa-Bidal. Here's Stéphane's Zazzle store.

*Previously: Japanese book cover for Patricia Highsmith's Eleven.

*Buy book cover collections at Amazon.

Gallery of vintage Japanese magazine covers

Terrific gallery of vintage Japanese magazine and book covers.

*Previously: Japanese folklore/Gene Simmons mashup.

*Buy Japanese prints at eBay.

Criterion Collection-Style Video Game Box Art

High concept video game box art, done in the style of the Criterion Collection:








Many more on display here and here. Via these sites.

*Previously: Doom as a Diablo-style game.

Buy Criterion Collection DVDs at Amazon.

You too might drive off the roof of a building

This is the cover of the March 1948 issue of Popular Mechanics:



The text says, "This can happen to you." I did some investigating and discovered that it's an article about driving safety, which features this dubious claim, "Driving 30 miles per hour is as dangerous as driving on the roof of a high building!" You can see scans of the magazine here, including this curious juxtaposition of product, image, and text:



I mean, whenever someone molests my backside I instantly think about lubricating my engine. Via.

*Previously: Bizarre workplace safety website.

*Buy motor oil at Amazon.

Covers that would have been run if Obama had lost

Here's the cover the Chicago Reader created in case McCain won.



Here's the equally irreverent cover that the Reader did run. (You can download pdfs of both here.)


And here's the cover the Seattle Weekly didn't run. (Here's the one it did.) Via.

When I passed the Los Angeles Times building yesterday, there was a line of people waiting to buy commemorative prints of the cover announcing Obama's win.

*Previously: Magazine cover commemorates Spitzer's downfall.

*Buy "MAD - Cover to Cover: 48 Years, 6 Months, & 3 Days of MAD Magazine Covers" at Amazon.

Best magazine covers 2008, as chosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors

Head over here to see the full list of magazine covers chosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors as the best of 2008, and head over here to see the gallery. All in all the choices are pretty lackluster. But these two are great:


March 24, 2008 New York cover pointing out that Eliot Spitzer kept his brain between his legs




June 30, 2008 cover showing McCain as best pals hanging out on the beach

Via.

*Previously: April Fool's cover of The Jewish Journal.

*Buy 100 Years of Magazine Covers at Amazon.

Mariachi cover versions of Queen and The Beatles

Let me know if you test out these download links for Mariachi versions of The Beatles and Queen. Via.

Here's a mariachi version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps that I found on Youtube:



And here's We Are The Champions:



*Previously: Nine Inch Noels.

Pulp Cover: How I Trapped the Five Murderers of the Los Angeles Policemen

Larger version here.

Pulp Covers: Thrills Incorporated

More images and larger scans here. Via.

How do you illustrate silence?

In December 2001, Marvel experimented with the "'Nuff Said" event, in which comic books featured little to no dialogue. The results received some criticism, although I enjoyed Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's New X-Men #121, which revealed the origin of Professor X's sister. So, how did the cover artists try to get the silent concept across?

Well, some went the obvious route:







Some tried something a little more subtle:



Some illustrated the exact opposite:



And some pretended it wasn't happening:



But the cover of Peter Parker: Spiderman # 38 was definitely my favorite:



Covers found here, here, and here.