A recurring topic on Warren Ellis’ Whitechapel forum is the Remake/Remodel exercise, where Warren throws up the description of an obscure super/pulp/SF character (usually long out of print and in the public domain) and invites the forum members to reinterpret said character. I usually just sit and watch, but this week he opened it up to design, with the Superman cover:
“So here’s the deal:
You are an artist/designer. You have to put together the cover for a comic called SUPERMAN. It is issue 1 of this book.
You have been told that Superman is a man who dresses predominantly in a shade of blue, and wears a red S symbol. You know nothing else about the character.
The cover must include a logo and the text THE COMPLETE STORY OF THE DARING EXPLOITS OF THE ONE AND ONLY SUPERMAN.
And that’s it.
It’s up to you what kind of company you’re at. What kind of comics you make. How you translate that description of Superman. What era you’re in. Who you are, even. Go nuts with it.
You have one week. Go.”
And so I thought “lets have some fun” and I threw together some bits I had lying around and came up with this:
Remade Superman cover
You can see all the results over at the Whitechapel forum thread. Nice to see that the online comic/geek press took note of it and started spreading around the news.
March 6th, 2010
Muller,
Looks awesome. Was funny browsing that topic from back to front, you could tell from the top third of a piece of it was going to be worth waiting for it to load all the way. is that a custom typeface you used for the Superman title?
March 6th, 2010
@jeremy—
Thanks! Glad to hear you like it. Yes, thats a (half finished idea) of a custom typeface I was working on.
March 6th, 2010
well at half finished it demolishes a lot of the other typework used. i joined up at the Ellis board, and look forward to participating in the future. Would probably be good practice to help me work on my design skills.
March 7th, 2010
Lovely work Tom, I’d pick that up in a comic shop right away
March 10th, 2010
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