Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

The 'Sin City' series have some really nice simple comic cover designs utilising just black, white and red. They are focussed on a comic style of illustration which is obviously really relevant, along with the fact that the Sin City comics themselves use the black and white style with some intermittent use of colour which relates directly to the film noir style of story that Miller intended to show. The covers will have been drawn by Frank Miller and the stories themselves were written by him as well.

Respectively, the same appropriateness of covers can be said for the Dave Mckean covers of the sandman. Each of the Sandman comics has a number of different chapters and each chapter tends to be drawn by a different comic artist meaning a variety of styles and interpretations of the stories and characters. So in a sense the cover incorporates a bunch of different mediums together which relates nicely to the range of stuff within the comics themselves. Nonetheless I do still really like this simplified look and want to create a much less over-the-top style than those which Mckean has created.