COVER CONTEST, Feb 16 - Feb 22: It's Not Art, It's Comics!

[foxley]

This week I thought we might add a touch of culture to the contest, so I'm asking people to post a cover that is a homage to, a parody of, or otherwise references a work of art from outside the field of comics. Over the years, there have tributes to the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Birth of Venus, American Gothic, Whistler's Mother, The Scream, The Thinker, Vitruvian Man, Washington Crossing the Delaware, the Marilyn Diptych...

Dig deep and see what you can find. If you wish, feel free to also post an image of the work being referenced.

However, to encourage variety, I am adding the proviso that homages/parodies of Michelangelo's Pietà are NOT eligible for this contest. these are so common that they could easily be a topic all on their own, and many of them are actually homages to Uncanny X-Men #136 and/or Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 anyway.

As always, the rules:

THE RULES:
1) Post One (& ONLY ONE) Cover that fits the theme of this Week's Contest!
2) Cover must be from a Published Comic Book or Collected Volume!
3) Covers must be Posted before Voting Begins!
4) Voting Begins 12 AM Tuesday and Runs Until 12 AM Wednesday PST (3 AM EST)!
5) Vote by Posting the name in BOLD of the Poster whose cover best fits the theme or that you simply like the most! A vote need not be in bold, but it does make it easier to Count-The-Votes!
6) The Winner of the Contest is the Entry with the MOST Votes after the Voting-Period!
7) It's Okay to Discuss the Covers but if you Think Someone's Entry Doesn't Fit the Theme or Violates the Rules, you Don't need to Argue it in the thread, Simply Don't Vote for It!
8) Plus: Occasionally Voting will Result in a Tie! The Person Who Started the Thread will do the Counting that Week will Usually call for a TIE-Breaking --Vote from Someone who has Not Yet Voted!
9) AFTER the Tie-Breaker Vote, Voting Ends and the Winner is Declared by The One Who Started the Thread (or assigned surrogate) and Thus will do the Counting.
10) HAVE FUN!

[K7P5V]

[foxley]

And now you're falling, crawling
Digging in the broken remains
Of what had to be taken for strong
Slowly it's been fading away

Come into the painting on the wall
So the joker smiles
Come into the painting on the wall
No more crying
Illusions let you in from the rain
Follow Mr. Hopkins, get insane



Common Grounds #4, a homage to Nighthawks by Edward Hooper:

[Riv86672]

[kjn]

Heh. I actually had that on my list of ideas (with the tentative title "Great artists steal").

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An homage to "La Liberté guidant le peuple" by Eugène Delacroix.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Well, SOMEBODY has to do an homage to the Mona Lisa, and who better to handle that tasking than America's favorite rich girl:

[MRP]

Sergio homages Frazetta



-M

[Ajax_X]

[Zelena]

Edit: the picture has been changed.

[nx01a]

[Kirby101]

[Nschornhorst]

[seismic-2]

Norman Rockwell's Freedom from Want (1943) is a common trope, so there are several to choose from. I'll go with the JSA's version here.

[CaptCleghorn]

This week I thought we might add a touch of culture to the contest, so I'm asking people to post a cover that is a homage to, a parody of, or otherwise references a work of art from outside the field of comics. Over the years, there have tributes to the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Birth of Venus, American Gothic, Whistler's Mother, The Scream, The Thinker, Vitruvian Man, Washington Crossing the Delaware, the Marilyn Diptych...

Dig deep and see what you can find. If you wish, feel free to also post an image of the work being referenced.

Now I'm on close terms with the writer of this book. I talked with him and asked him for his comments on the book and why it should be voted for. This is his solicited testimony:

"If you don't vote for it, CaptCleghorn will cry like a spoiled child."

[kjn]

Someone is upping the NSFW factor!