Creativity in Comic Book Cover Art (Photo Gallery)

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To attract readers, comic book artists have to create cover art that gives more than just a glimpse of the plot. Here are some examples of creative comic book art that can be used for artistic inspiration.

Arkham Reborn #1 by Frazer Irving

Arkham Reborn 1 Cover by Frazer Irving

Wolverine vs the X-Men by Jae Lee

Wolverine #8 - Wolverine vs the X-Men Cover by Jae Lee

The Punisher #68 by Tim Bradstreet

PunisherFrank Castle 68 Cover by Tim Bradstreet

The Flash #4 by Francis Manapul

The Flash #4 Art and cover by Francis Manapul

Green Arrow #58 by James Jean

Green Arrow #58 Cover by James Jean

The Savage Hawkman #4 by Philip Tan

The Savage Hawkman #4  Cover by Philip Tan

Batwoman by J.H. Williams III

Batwoman Cover by J.H. Williams III

House of Mystery by Esao Andrews

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Northlanders #35 by Massimo Carnevale

Northlanders #35  Cover by Massimo Carnevale

Amazing Spider-Man #592, Dali Variant by Paolo Rivera

Amazing Spider-Man #592 Variant Wolverine Art Appreciation  Cover by Dali by Paolo Rivera

The Joker by Lee Bermjo

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Amazing Spider-Man #641 by Paolo Rivera

Amazing Spider-Man #641 Cover by Paolo Rivera

The Book of Skull #1 by Marko Djudrjevic

Fear Itself he Book of the Skull #1 Cover by Marko Djurdjevic

Sweets #2 by Kody Chamberlain

Sweets #2 Cover by Kody Chamberlain

30 Stunning and Inspirational Comic Covers | Awwwards

Creative Stoner Tattoos (Photo Gallery)

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Super stoners rep their love for cannabis and stoner culture with body art. See if you can find some inspiration for your next tattoo in this gallery of creative stoner tattoos.

THC Molecule Tattoo

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Dream Catcher Tattoo

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Stoner Panda Tattoo

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Wake and Bake Raptors Tattoo

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Pink Floyd Tattoo

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Music Note Tattoo

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Smoking Pipe Tattoo

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Flower of Life Tattoo

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Ganesha Tattoo

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Weed Leaf Tattoo

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Carved Tattoo

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Mandala Tattoo

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The Joker and Harley Quinn Tattoo

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Weed and Music Tattoo

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Waldo Tattoo

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Tommy Chong Tattoo

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Peacock Tattoo

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Zombie Tattoo

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Psychedelic Galaxies Tattoo

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John Lennon Tattoo

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Buddha Tattoo

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Psychedelic Technicolor Pop Icons, Technodrome1 Art Gallery

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Technodrome1 (Joshua Williams), takes pictures of your favorite icons and adds a hit of acid to them. The neon bright color pallet instantly draws you as you admire his  images covered in graffiti-like technicolor strokes.

Some of his favorite artists include people from the past and present, pop and not such as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basqiat, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Picasso and Mr. Brainwash. He likes to try to illustrate what being a kid was like and hopes those fun aspects are shown in his art.

Some people don’t even know what the fuck it is and that shit blows my mind. Like, “What’s a Technodrome? I’ve never even seen Ninja Turtles.” I don’t even know how that went over your head, for real [Laughs]. That shit is like a staple. Especially for our generation, they had to have seen Ninja Turtles. I don’t know why I fell in love with that cartoon; it’s so weird. What the fuck? Them niggas was all potheads eating pizza and talking about surfing. That shit goes hard and they beat niggas’ asses, b.

Wu Tang Clan – Technodrome1

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Beavis – Technodrome1

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Daft Punk – Technodrome1

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Kendrick Lamar – Technodrome1

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Mario Shroom – Technodrome1

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The RZA – Technodrome1

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Magneto – Technodrome1

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I’ve always liked Frank Miller and Jim Lee comics and I always tried to copy their style. Some people are like, “Yo, you can’t do that, that’s cheating, that’s biting.” But now as an adult I realize that I do that unconsciously with stuff I like and it comes out in my work and I’m not even trying to copy somebody. I see something that I think is fly, it stays in my mind and it comes out.

Kid Cudi – Technodrome1

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Batman Vs Joker – Technodrome1

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American Psycho (Christian Bale)- Technodrome1

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The color schemes I use can only be explained in one word: Acid [Laughs]. You could put that in there because I don’t know why I use these colors. Sometimes the colors vibrate and I wasn’t even trying to do that. Like the pieces that look 3-D or with the pieces that have tiles in the background.

Lana Del Rey – Technodrome1

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Taxi Driver (Robert De Niro) – Technodrome1

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Snoop Dogg- Technodrome1

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Griffith (Berserk)- Technodrome1

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Rocko’s Modern Life – Technodrome1

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ASAP Rocky – Technodrome1

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Wednesday, The Addams Family (Christina Ricci) – Technodrome1

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Megatron – Technodrome1

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The Amazing Spider-Man Artist, Humberto Ramos Art Gallery

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Humberto Ramos’ work on The Amazing Spider-Man is some of the best the comic book industry has ever seen. Ramos got his big break in 1998 when he co-founded Cliffhanger with Joe Madureira and J. Scott Campbell. The independent freedom gave him the ability to produce his own comic book Crimson, a series based on ancient vampires and the modern world.

Spider-Man Rainfall

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The Joker

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Mary Jane Watson

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Wolverine, Spider-Man

 

Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor

 

Batman, Harley Quinn

 

Carnage

 

Deadpool, Thor

 

Wolverine, Captain America

 

Blade

 

Spider Avengers

Humberto Ramos Interview, Philly Comic-Con

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Batman – Unmasked, The Psychology Of The Dark Knight Documentary (Video)

Batman - Unmasked, The Psychology Of The Dark Knight Documentary (Video) | Third Monk

The History Channel examines the mental landscape of Batman with select interviews from writers and various experts in the psychology field. Insight is given on the motivating forces that drive the Joker, Catwoman, and the other villains of Gotham City.

I always felt Batman had a great curiosity about the Joker because he hadn’t ever come across someone like him before. This is another character like himself that will not compromise whatsoever. The Joker wants to see that everybody has a price, that nobody is pure and that even Batman can be bought or leveraged in such a way that he would compromise his principles.

-Christian Bale

The Joker has an agenda of a chaos, he’s a unique villain in that he is not necessarily after money or power, or any of those traditional things, that’s really the hardest kind of evil to fight because you can’t bargain with it.

-Danny Fingeroth, author Superman on the Couch

Batman says philosophically we can acknowledge an imperfect world, we can acknowledge that we have to step outside of social norms but that doesn’t make the social norms meaningless. The Joker says the presence of random injustice means that there is no justice. The fact that innocents can be destroyed means that there is no innocence. The Joker isn’t just threatening him physically, he’s threatening the premise of Batman’s existence, that’s why it’s such an epic discussion that they’re having and it’s played out physically, it’s played out in punches and gun fights.

-Benjamin R. Karney, Professor of Psychology, UCLA