“Watchmen” Covers Deconstructed
The FT reports: ‘”Watchmen” is a graphic novel that leaked out through the sealed polythene bag of comics fandom to become a seminal work of late 20th-century literature…For each issue of the original run, artist Dave Gibbons chose to take a detail from the first panel of the first page and draw a magnified version of it for the cover, pulling the reader into the story.’
