Face Front

Some Comic Book Creators love doing Covers. After all, it's just one big, fat, static image that is your book's face to the world. It's where you're supposed to show off, pop a wheelie, do a hand stand, and ect. Most of the Original Image Guys were Cover Artistes Extraordinares, and in fact, most of em nowadays (most noteably Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld) just run around doing the Cover and not bothering with the infinately more complex interior work.

I, on the other hand, fricking Hate doing the Cover. I've been producing comics for Five Years now, and in that time, I've only produced one cover that I think truly kicked ass (my amigos should be able to guess which one...). My covers don't flat out suck, but they're not the big selling point for my book that they should be. And the worst part is, when I'm working on a Cover, I get the worst case of stage fright. Horrible ideas run through my head, like, "Is the anatomy right?" "Are the proportions right?" "His eyes look funny." Y'know, stupid crap like that. That's why I always try to get people to flip through my book, cause if they bought it based on the Cover, I'd never move a damn issue.

What prompted this Rant was that last night I redid the Cover to "SDF: Perfect/Ugly". The first cover I did lacked...pizzazz. So, I redid it, and I spent the whole time second guessing myself, and fixing crap, and agonizing over a portion of the book that I personally don't give much of a crap about. For me, a comic is it's interiors. But that's just me.