Putting some more finishing touches to Burn 13 tonight and I am so far behind, I've started to shame even myself which is quite a feat. Anyway, on my travels, I've come across some seriously good artwork on book covers that I thought I'd share here in case the whole project falls apart before I get to the end.

The first one is a Spanish cover for one of the issues of The Umbrella Academy. I don't know what it is about this, but I'd hang this in my house any day of the week and stop in front of it regularly.

Comics seem to be getting far too generic these days, almost obliterating the whole reason they were created in the first place, which surely was to let an artist do whatever they please.

I like the Marvel/DC state of mind a lot because it's keeping the standard high and that's always welcome, but now and then, I think I need to see something a little out of the box and this, apparently, is ticking qall of my boxes.

I was also looking for the cover of the edition of Factotum from Bukowski that I ordered from amazon this week, but then I found this one. Again, I don't know what it is about it that's rattling my cage - and I wish I could get hold of it somewhere - but this is a real peach in the book cover department.

I've not seen a book cover for a long time that said more about the book than the blurb on the back did. I must watch out for a copy of this somewhere along the line...

Slightly off from the book cover train of thought, is this excellent pastiche of TinTin called ThingThing - or, how Herge would have illustrated the Fantastic Four. Again, I would hang this in my house simply because it's so undeniably brilliant. The whole story behind it is here at Dustin Weaver's blog.

Finally, Eleanor sent me this just because it's really dumb fun. Dan McCarthy has loads more neat stuff here. I'm thinking that maybe I should get in touch and rustle up an interview for the next issue of Burn.

Nice.

That's me done for today.

Fucking hammered, to coin a phrase.