There are some things about comic books that I just don’t understand. In this case, I don’t understand why the artists who draw the book can not also do the cover.
In the August 2006 Wizard Magazine,there is an ad for the new JLA title. While I knew this before, the ad points out that Micheal Turner and J. Scott Campbell draw the covers. Why can’t Ed Benes draw the cover? He is doing all of the work to put the book together, he should be the one to have his picture on the cover. I read the books for the stories, some people read the books for the artwork–it seems to me that it is somewhat unethical to display and market a cover, but then on the inside have something completely different.
The covers, I understand, are a big deal. That is all the more reason for the inside artist to draw the outside cover.
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