Covers

Perhaps most impressive to me about Will Eisner's The Spirit covers is the use of space. In the first cover that we looked at from No. 26, there is a spider web that covers both the title and Eisner's name. You can see Spirit tangled in the web trying to free himself while a villain in the background approaches and a woman seductively looks on. There is a certain amount of haste and desperation in Spirits expression and body language that is hard to get from cartoons. I also liked the second cover in our packet from No. 28. It sort of reminds me of Indiana Jones because of the Spirit's costume. All of the little gnome-like creatures attacking him are both funny and scary looking at the same time. They seem to be delaying Spirit as he tries to travel underground. You can even see how unbalanced he is on the logs floating in the water. The main thing that I like about Eisner's covers is that you get a sense of what is going to happen in the story before even reading it.