The intention of Covered is to feature a wide variety of artists redoing comic covers in their own style. Artists can come from any field: cartoonists / comic artists (both from the mainstream and the independent fringes), illustrators, animators, graphic designers, photographers, sculptors, etc. and be both well known or up and coming.

Any comic cover is acceptable to redraw for the Covered blog. It can be any genre from any country. Anything from a 60’s underground to a Chick tract; from Japanese manga, to French/Belgian bande dessinée to an American superhero comic. You are the one who decides and it is that decision that is part of the fun for the viewer. To help with the gray areas, a photo cover for a comic would be acceptable, as would a book collection of newspaper strips. Things that wouldn’t work is a Jack Davis film poster. He is a cartoonist, but it needs to be a comic. Same thing for Charles Burns’s cover to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Also, this isn’t a parody cover site. There’s nothing wrong with parody but it’s a different thing then what this blog is about. Hopefully that makes things crystal clear.

The most interesting redos seem to be a juxtaposition of styles. Try taking on a cover that is a little out of your comfort zone. If you have been the regular penciler on Amazing Spider-man for a few years and redraw Amazing Fantasy 15, it’s not as interesting as if you did Yummy Fur (which would be mind-blowing).

I would prefer if you waited to post your cover on your own blog or another message board until its been posted on Covered. Once it’s on Covered for a second, feel free to post it wherever you would like as often as you like. I just want to avoid Covered being a destination for images that have already been all over the web.

Please don’t add extra information, like your website, to your cover image. I’ll provide a link to your site within the text as well as add a permanent link in the contributors' column. I’m trying to keep things as clean and about the covers as possible.

This is an all ages site, so keep that in mind. I don’t have a problem with nudity, but explicit sex would be a problem. The line is pretty liberal, but use your head.

It would make my job a lot easier if you could provide a link to the comics.org entry of the comic you have redrawn. That provides me with an image of the original cover, the credit for the original cover’s artist(s), as well as publisher and year of publication. I know it doesn’t take long to hunt down, but when you do a lot of these, all of these steps add up.

If you would like to sell your original, send me a link where it can be purchased and I will link to it in the text of the post.

Lastly, I have been getting a lot of submissions, which is great. I have expanded how often there is a new post to Monday – Friday. However, I am still getting so many that I have to reject some. This is my least favorite part of doing this blog because as someone who has been rejected more times than I can count, I know what it’s like to be on the other side. Decisions on what I choose to run and not run are based purely on my tastes and what I think is best for the blog. I will try to get back to everyone in a timely manner because the one thing I hate more than being rejected is not getting the courtesy of being rejected and not hearing back. I’ll do everything I can to avoid doing that.

That’s pretty much it. I have found doing these to be a lot of fun and a nice breather between projects.