The 2012 COVER OF THE YEAR Vote.

[ming]

So many great covers this year - reflecting the stellar content of the Prog.  Choosing three favourites is tricky, but my highlights are these:

1st  1811, D'Israeli
2nd  1745, McCarthy
3rd  1771a, Chris Weston

Thanks again for all the hard work this year, Pete!

[Colin Zeal]

An incredibly tough choice this year but after a lot of thinking I'm going for:
1. 1771A
2. 1781
3. 1804

I tip my hat to all of the artists though, as the standard was really high and made choosing just three almost impossible.

[I, Cosh]

Top three:

#1. 1791 by Simon Fraser. Not the most instantly striking but, on reflection, packs a real punch and has a lovely, sunset colour scheme.
#2. 1767 by Tiernen Trevallion. A bustling, busy cover which really uses the contrast in colour beautifully.
#3. 1781 by Henry Flint. Lovely stuff.

No room in the list for D'Israeli or a wonderfully colourful McCarthy? Strewth mate.

[DoomBot]

Well that was hard. I spread them out all over the floor and whittled them down through much wailing and gnashing of teeth. My final three surprised me:

1-1804
2 -1807
3 - 1767

And I'd like to award a wooden spoon to 1765 for what is possibly the worst cover of all time

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Regarding Flint's Dark Judges, am I the only one put off by the "Weeee're Baack" that was on the actual cover?

[The Adventurer]

Regarding Flint's Dark Judges, am I the only one put off by the "Weeee're Baack" that was on the actual cover?

Personally I loved it. Let me do this...



(Which was a reference to this)

[templar]

3. 1802

2. 1783

1. 1811

[James Stacey]

3) 1771a Chris Weston

2) 1781 Henry Flint

1) 1791 Si Fraser

[hippynumber1]

After much pontificating and pondering:

1) 1811 - wonderful D'Israeli
2) 1774 - stunning Mark Harrison
3) 1791 - melancholy Simon Fraser

[flip-r mk2]

Mega thanks to Pete Wells for his 'covers blog' ( congratulations on the KTT).
So many wonderful covers this year, finally settled on these three.

1 1791
2 1800
3 1771b

filip

[WhizzBang]

1. 1767
2- 1781
3- 1792

[Pete Wells]

Might as well toss my hat into the ring. A horribly difficult choice this year, there are easily another 15 that could have made the list...

Deep breath, here we go:

1 - Colin MacNei... I mean Ben Willsher's 1802, pure, in your face Dredd! Ben even managed to fool me that he'd painted this one...
2 - Simon Fraser's final Dante cover of 1791. When this came through my letterbox I got goosebumps. Sometimes I look at it and feel sad, other times it fills me full of hope! A really suprising, intelligent cover.
3 - Karl Richardson's double tapping Dredd of 1783, day of chaos indeed!

Coverbah(tm), this vote supposed to be enjoyable!

HM - Clint Langley for the amazing Swamp Thing cover and his b&w Hammerstein. Amazing!

[DrJomster]

A tough choice again this year, but after a lot of agonising here we go...

1st: Tiernan for 1767's Absalom. Wonderful.
2nd: Ben for 1802's Dredd. Iconic.
3rd: D'israeli's 1805. Frank. No more need be said.

Honorable mention. JDH's 1772.

[Hawkmumbler]

1. 1811- D'Israeli 'Moonshot'
2. 1767- Trevallion 'The Big Smoke'
3. 1781- Henry 'God Child' Flint 'Weee Haaave Reeturrned!'

[vzzbux]

My choices.

1st 1771a. Pure genius. The full version has been my screen wallpaper for an absloute age.

2nd 1772. Just love this one.

3rd 1776. Another Weston. He is fast becoming one of my top art droids.





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