Aug 13th, 2011
Alex Robinson‘s books include Box Office Poison, Tricked and Too Cool to Be Forgotten, all of which are available from Top Shelf Productions. He has lost and won several awards and currently resides in New York with his wife and their 2 pets. You can find out more about Alex at Comicbookalex.com. The Wiggly Reader [...]
Jun 14th, 2010
While browsing around and trying to decide on an idea for of the next topic on BestComicCovers.com, I came across one of my favorite comic book cover artists, Alex Schomburg, who practically made a living creating bondage comic covers. That was the idea: Bondage Covers. Okay, so now I had an idea and knew of [...]
Jun 7th, 2010
Welcome to part 2 of Wolverine’s art appreciation covers. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, you’re fine, they can be read in any order. To recap, Marvel celebrated the 35th anniversary of Wolverine’s first appearance in April 2009, by producing many art appreciation covers. These variant covers were inspired by some of the greatest artists of all [...]
May 26th, 2010
In April 2009, Marvel celebrated the 35th anniversary of Wolverine’s first appearance with over a dozen variant art appreciation covers. These comic books covers were inspired by some of the greatest artists of all time, including John Singer Sargent, Vincent Van Gogh and C.M. Coolidge. Marvel choose an assortment of artists for these covers ranging from virtual unknowns like Fiona Staples to [...]
May 19th, 2010
One of my earliest memories of reading comics was picking up a Flash comic and learning about his feats of incredible speed and quickness. One story involved the speedster changing a tire while the car was moving, all unbeknownst to his lady passenger. Well, she did say she felt a slight bump, but otherwise the [...]
May 9th, 2010
Iron Man is quite the popular fellow these days, at least at the movies. With this in mind I written our inaugural Best Comic Covers list featuring Ol’ Shellhead. These Iron Man covers all have something special. It may be a dynamic design, a creative layout, stunning art, history-changing news or a cover may have [...]