I was all set to write about certain Bukowski covers, when I made a trip to the comic book store. Well I thought, holding a stack, don't comic books come with covers? By God, there's even book in the name. And to make a more salient point, there's one reason why I keep on buying issues of The Unwritten: the covers!
The Unwritten 4-7. Written by Mike Carey, Illustrated by Peter Gross and with covers by Yuko Shimizu.Sure, the story's not bad either. However, parts of it have a warmed-over Gaiman feel, and I'm a little done with meta-fiction and po-mo legends for the... mo'. But the covers by Yuko Shimizu are superb. I almost want to have them framed, but that wouldn't be too useful for the "book" part of the equation.
They are the photo negatives of our favorite childhood illustrations. The lines and shading are conventionally darker than the fill, but that's not the case here and it fits in with a story where the writing process is always on display. I just love them.
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