In Pictures: Celebrating the art of the magazine cover
by Jeremy Korzeniewski (RSS feed) on Mar 11th, 2010 at 7:55PM
In the high-stakes game of magazine publishing, there's one critical component that can either make or break an entire issue. What are we talking about? The cover. Get it right and an editor-in-chief can move an extra few thousand copies to casual passers by at the nearest magazine stand. Get it wrong, as Car and Driver undeniably did for its April 1987 issue with the wretched Zimmer Quicksilver on the cover, and you end up with the worst-selling edition in the magazine's storied history. We just happened upon what may be the very best (or worst, depending on your point of view) time... Read More
