Cover History

Early Magazine Covers: in the mid 1700's they did not have covers on the magazing
they only had the title and the table of contents, and these were the early early magazinges.
now in the early times, sometimes they tended to modle the magazinge cover as a book, also
the cover would not show indication of what was inside it, too make the people more eager to look inside it.

The Poster Cover: in the 1890's and 1960's, they had decided that if they had a picture it
would show more meaning, and there were no words needed, the picture woud describe everything, the picture was mainly art, people would draw the pictures. In the early 1900's
Charles Dana Gibson, and many other people became famous for what they had drawn.
They framed the the picture.

Pictures Married to Type: by the 1800's the lines became common, in 1916, wonam faces appeard on the cover of most magazines and then came the headlines all around the picture.
The background would have to blend in with the woman, mainly where the woman had there shoot would be always by the ocean, or on a boat in the ocean, that was the most common picture back then.

In the Forest of Words: In the 21st century cover lines were as important as cover art. In some cases, cover lines and cover art improvised a new, vigorous, almost shocking. one cover was two different guys, holding two gutars, one is smiling the other one happends to be serious this is more modern. Some covers of this period contain cover lines that are actually larger than the title