The Cover Contest Weekly Winners ThreadSo much winning!!
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Honestly, I feel that anything that could reasonably be described as 'comics' should fit-- comics, graphic novels, collected volumes, comic strip collections, children's books told solely in comics form, printed collections of webcomics, etc.
I recall a couple of instances where people questioned whether the entry fit the rule. One was a mass-market paperback collection of Peanuts comic strips, rather than a trade collection of comic books. I see no problem with a comic strip collection, since it's all graphic storytelling. (In fact, the first comic books were collections of comic strips!) The other instance was the cover to the Bernie Wrightson illustrated Frankenstein. I believe the consensus herein was that it was basically a prose book, the remarkable graphic art notwithstanding, because most of the story was conveyed in words rather than drawings. In cases such as that, I personally would say that the contest-runner should allow the entry and just let the voters make the final choice. It's just too hard to make up a rule in advance that could be definitive in what is effectively a judgement call.
I recall a past contest where a Calvin and Hobbes book won. The parameters have always been pretty broad.
Basically, if something doesn't fit, we'll know it when we see it.
There was a hard rule against Pulps in the pre-CBRmageddon version of the contest. I remember once having to change my entry because of it. Does the Frankenstein book qualify? Maybe.
Last edited by Jack Dracula; 12-01-2019 at 12:07 PM.
The Cover Contest Weekly Winners ThreadSo much winning!!
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
“It’s your party and you can cry if you want to.” - Captain Europe
I think in the case of the Wrightson Frankenstein, maybe people just don't realize there is a Wrightson Frankenstein graphic novel, titled "Frankenstein Alive, Alive!" Sequential art, panels, word balloons, etc. This was "inspired" by the famous novel.
However, over the years in contests people post this cover (below) instead, which is the cover to a reprint edition of Shelley's novel. The cover is by Wrightson and there are some interior illustrations by him too. Maybe people don't realize it, but this is a "book-book", a reprinted novel, etc., with text as shown below. Maybe people get the two works ("Alive, Alive!" and the reprinted novel) mixed up.
Last edited by Shalla Bal; 12-01-2019 at 01:58 PM.
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honorable mention to Shalla Bal's cover.
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My vote goes to foxley for one sexy cover!
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