IMAGINARY FRONT COVERS,
BOOKS, MAGAZINES and more

    Like A Rolling Stone, Maggie's Farm, Tangled Up In Blue... imagine a world where these would not be famous songs titles, but books, or films, and Bob Dylan a novel writer or a Comic Hero ... This is what some artists did, and the result is quite amazing. These nice artworks are sold on the Internet as wall decoration.

    Among hundreds of artworks inspired by Bob Dylan and his songs, these are particularly relevant to Come Writers And Critics: first they are printed on (glossy) paper, and second they depict books and magazine covers, the core of this website.

 

1) THE PULP FICTION BOOK COVERS and other artworks,
by Todd ALCOTT

   "To restate what should be obvious from the second, if not first glance, none of Alcott's titles are real. His aesthetically convincing mock-ups pay tribute to favorite songs by favorite artists: David Bowie, Talking Heads, Joy Division, Elvis Costello. The start of the school year finds him in a Dylan mood, rendering some of his best known hits in a variety of pulp genre formats".
   Read more about Todd Alcott and his work here, and visit his ToddAlcottGraphics shop.

Magazine	Magazine	Magazine

Film poster	Film poster
Newspaper Double click to read the texts	Advertisement

2) THE RECORD BOOKS, by Christophe GOWANS

   This is from Christophe Gowans' RECORD BOOKS. "Fast-paced 1958 thriller: a jilted train driver hi-jacks his New York subway train to exact revenge upon his love rival, only to threaten the life of his ex-lover. The last 30 pages are missing. Don’t know if she survives."

3) Unnamed artist, RecombinantCulture

   The items below are sold by RecombinantCulture.
   The artist is not named on the site, but you can read his (or her) story here.

            

4) CYBERELG DESIGN, Norway

   This imaginary ROLLING STONE magazine front cover, "for promotional use only in no way affiliated with Rolling Stone magazine" is probably a promotional document for Cyberelg Design in Trondheim (Norway). Dated 2012.

Very surprisingly, the same image was used for both this item and the one below:

5) BUDI LUHUR UNIVERSITY, Indonesia

    This really looks like an Indonesian magazine -and was for a short while sorted in the Magazine section of this site- but is actually a student's work ('Publication Design'), from the private University of Budi Luhur in Jakarta, Indonesia. A flip book of this probably virtual-only creation can be seen here. Published in 2015.

Thank you to Christian Fiot for this item and to Eric Galzi for the investigation.