Archived: Briefly revisiting Quitely's Bite Club covers
Published Tuesday, February 21, 2006 by Kevin Melrose | E-mail this post
Note: This entry originally appeared on Jan. 18, 2006, at Supernaturally, my work and idea blog.Monday's post set me on a
Bite Club kick, which, in turn, got me thinking about Frank Quitely's covers for the 2004 miniseries. Damn, those are things of beauty. I'd love to have a poster of all six images.
Aside from the art itself, I'm a fan of the design: the repeated elements on the left -- the
final cover for Issue 1, top left, sports "milk" cartons -- and the way the
Bite Club logo is cleverly incorporated into many of the images. I also enjoy that vampish (
hyuk)
Risa Del Toro sports a little cellulite, something you don't usually see on comic-book women. She's sexy and imperfect. Heck,
all the cover figures are sexy in their own way, without resorting to blatant cheesecake, or beefcake.
To round out the Quitely lovefest, I listened to the first of a two-part
podcast interview with t
he artist at Horhaus.com. Good stuff.