While composing a recent post where I showed front pages of several landmark SPARKY numbers, I realized I’ve seen lots of beautiful covers of British comics but I’ve also come across a few that weren’t quite so excellent.
The examples that immediately came to mind were the covers of JACKPOT where attempts to draw realistic portraits resulted in these creepy caricatures of sinister-looking creatures:
Tammy also had a few. Take a look at this one; there is
something seriously not right with the poor girl on the right, don’t you
think?..
TAMMY had a series of covers drawn from readers’ ideas
by one of the good artists but in this case the Editor was probably pressed for
time and simply used the drawing sent by a reader:
I am sure there are many more and I will expand the
gallery when I come across some. Do you recall any covers that you thought
weren’t quite up to the standard?
