LEE THACKER:
Tim! Here are the final versions of my parody covers. I'm
not a Photoshop expert so they may look a bit rubbish compared to
Sandeep and Benjamin's efforts but my heart's in the right place... I decided to change the backgrounds to keep the images in line with the CIH? theme... As
usual, my efforts will probably be ignored/overlooked by everyone on
the site except for Dave Sim and your good self... sigh...
7 comments:
I like the "Smelly Fur" idea. That reminds me, I've got another batch of these to send in that I think you guys are going to enjoy.
I'm liking how well these covers come together with the addition of the Dore images as backgrounds and/or image elements. The Love and Aardvarks and Unbeddable Vark covers made me laugh. (Although I might get rid of the hand at the bottom of Love and Aardvarks. It distracted me from the joke.) (And cast shadows can be easily created in the f/x panel at the bottom of the layers pallet.)
I too have been working on more covers, but they are mostly in my head, and far from ready for sending. It's been a busy week.
-Benjamin Hobbs
It would be cool to see you Photoshoppers tackle some classic album covers next!!
Thanks, Gary and Benjamin. I'd like to apologise for the whiny/self pitying tone of the message I sent to Tim which appears above these images. They were great fun to do and Tim's kind enough to showcase them on his site - that should be enough.
Ha, the Smelly Fur one is good.
I was talking to Matt Demory, my rep at Diamond yesterday, and talking a bit about the "AARDVARK VANAHEIM YOUR #1 PUBLISHER!! ALL WE PUBLISH ARE #1s!" program...
[we can't really afford a monthly colour ad, but I thought if we did "THIS MONTH" and "NEXT MONTH" in a bi-monthly ad, it would be worth the cost as an experiment. Sandeep has a rough of the ad and will be working on it. We definitely want a template ad we can just plug the two latest covers into while advertising the CIH? back issues with their order codes at the bottom of the ad]
...and mentioned that the fans were pitching in at A Moment of Cerebus coming up with a lot of great ideas #1 cover ideas. We talked for a couple of minutes and he laughed and said "I like the LOVE & AARDVARKS one". I forget that you can Go Right There in this day and age.
Matt Demory likes LOVE & AARDVARKS? Whoa, me too in that case!! So I pulled out my copy of Todd Hignite's JAIME HERNANDEZ book (which Todd was nice enough to send me: he's one of my contacts at Heritage Auctions) and started going through looking for gag ideas. I've got two solid ones and one with definite potential. One more and that one's a "go".
LEE! CHEER UP! MATT SINGLED YOURS OUT!!
What about if you had a word balloon going down off the cover next to the hand: "HIM! THAT'S THE ONE WHO TOOK MY IPOD!" Yes? No?
Thank you Sandeep, Dave and Matt. I'll tidy up the Love And Aardvarks cover and add the extra word balloon.
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