Cover Browser

It’s been said before, and I’ll say it again: The internet rocks. Not too long ago, people spent days researching things — a pursuit that usually required the presence of books, pencils, and the occasional lawyer — and now we can have all that information in the time it takes to type a word into Google. Yes, that is old news, but sometimes the reality of our current situation whacks me anew. Like today, for instance, when Computerlove pointed me to Cover Art, an enormous online collection of comic book covers. Initially, I wasn’t that excited — comic books aren’t super high up on my personal fetish list — but after a few clicks I was hooked. Actually, “batshit” is probably the best term to describe what I was feeling; thousands of well-designed, sometimes historical, and nail-bitingly rad comic book covers were right there, for free, ready to be translated into typography, an album cover, a tee shirt…

I’m not saying that creative inspiration has ever been something we have to pay for, but my point is that we have everything we need to turn out really, really, badass work these days, and if you’re feeling a little sucked dry, going here may help. If you’re not feeling like that, go there anyway and bookmark it: it’s cheaper than a coffee-table book, and ten times as useful. God, I love the internet.