The Filth (2002) was Grant Morrison's second major creator-owned series for Vertigo after The Invisibles. Initially starting as a Nick Fury proposal for Marvel Comics, Morrison adapted it as a 13 part series for Vertigo. The title refers both to the police and to pornography. Morrison has said that the series is his favorite among his works.
The series was highly praised for its unique cover designs by Carlos Segura over at Segura INC. The covers were initially planned to be traditional 'comic book' covers with art by Chris Weston. However, many found the series sometimes confusing due to its storytelling techniques. These kinds of covers are what drew me towards Graphic Design in the first place (Not that I should have been reading this series, I was 12. BUT, the covers stuck with me and I picked it up a few years ago.)
To me, these covers are everything I believe graphic design should be. Clean, legible and with that fine twist of illustration that doesn't make it, to me, boring. (Or over bearing)
It's a discussion that keeps cropping up again and again; are comic books a form of art? Of course they're not, they're a form of entertainment much in the same way of music. Yet these kind of covers fall under the radar and more 'traditional' covers are pushed to the front and the designer in me cringes every time I see something like this:
Adventures of Superman #600 (2002)
Or this:
They're not appealing, nor are they something I feel good about buying into. The superman comic, my eyes don't know where to settle (and the illustration is unappealing at best.) The X-men cover is supposed to be reminiscent of church windows playing on the tittle of "second coming." But it feels cliched and forced. Not to mention the photoshoped bevel and embossed "gothic" type.
It's a discussion that keeps cropping up again and again; are comic books a form of art? Of course they're not, they're a form of entertainment much in the same way of music. Yet these kind of covers fall under the radar and more 'traditional' covers are pushed to the front and the designer in me cringes every time I see something like this:
Adventures of Superman #600 (2002)Or this:
They're not appealing, nor are they something I feel good about buying into. The superman comic, my eyes don't know where to settle (and the illustration is unappealing at best.) The X-men cover is supposed to be reminiscent of church windows playing on the tittle of "second coming." But it feels cliched and forced. Not to mention the photoshoped bevel and embossed "gothic" type.
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