Cover Contest for 8-10 to 8-17 seems sketchy...

[Scott Taylor]

Maybe I should change my entry? The others look like they are done for selling on line, etc. Mine was done on the fly so to speak at the con.

Yours is super cool because of that personal touch and story behind it.

I've never gotten one from an artist directly, so had no choice but to google one. Many others are in the same boat, I'd assume.

[Iron Maiden]

Okay, I'll stick with it guys!

At the same convention I also met Mark Bagley in Artist Alley. I didn't have another blank cover with me but he did do this sketch for me...for a reasonable price. He works so fast!

[Kirby101]

Hs looks just like Mark Bagley.

[worstblogever]

[Iron Maiden]

Hs looks just like Mark Bagley.

Maybe he is! Corrected the typo.

[MRP]

Yours is super cool because of that personal touch and story behind it.

I've never gotten one from an artist directly, so had no choice but to google one. Many others are in the same boat, I'd assume.

I have a handful I had done at cons over the years, mostly by local artists, I'll post a few more after the contest is over. The Parent Scarlet Sabrina is one of the few I have done by a "name" in the industry.

-M

[foxley]

I have a handful I had done at cons over the years, mostly by local artists, I'll post a few more after the contest is over. The Parent Scarlet Sabrina is one of the few I have done by a "name" in the industry.

-M

Similarly, I have a few that I bought at cons. Usually not ones that I commission but ones the artists have pre-done and have available. This includes one that Ken Lashley traded me for three packets of Tim-Tams (an Australian biscuit particularly beloved of American guests at Australian cons). He only asked me for two, but I threw in a third one because he was being so nice. The cover was one he had down some time ago and I was apparently the first person to express an interest in it.

The Belit one I posted is one of my most recent, having been purchased not long before the pandemic.

[Catlady in training]

Not sure how I missed this entire phenomenon. But some of these covers look great. Here you go:

[icctrombone]

[Kirby101]

Who drew that wbe?

[Iron Maiden]

It was done by a British illustrator named Nick Gribbon

It's listed on his online shop for 50 pounds.

[Ajax_X]

[worstblogever]

Who drew that wbe?

It was done by a British illustrator named Nick Gribbon

It's listed on his online shop for 50 pounds.

*tips hat at Iron Maiden*

[Stony]

[Kirby101]

I think I have to change my cover, some of these are spectacular.